Pitch your comedy or drama series idea to Jennie Snyder Urman and Joanna Klein, Executive Producers at Sutton St. Productions (under an overall deal at CBS TV).
Jennie Snyder Urman developed and Executive Produces the CW's Golden-Globe nominated Jane the Virgin. The show has been honored with a Peabody Award, 3 TCA nominations, 6 Critics Choice nominations, 3 NAACP Image Award nominations, an MTV Movie & TV Awards nomination for Best American Story, as well as multiple Teen Choice nominations, a People’s Choice Award for “Favorite New TV Comedy,” the Planned Parenthood “Maggie Award for Television,” and an IMAGEN Award for best Primetime Comedy in 2015 and 2016. Additionally, the show was named one of AFI's Top Television Programs of the Year. She also executive produces the reboot of Charmed, and is the Executive Producer of the new CBS comedy Broke.
Prior to Jane the Virgin and Charmed, Urman created Emily Owens, MD, also for the CW. Other credits include Reign, Gilmore Girls, Men in Trees, Lipstick Jungle, 90210, and Hope and Faith. She was also named one of Variety's "10 TV Writers to Watch" in 2012. Additionally, she wrote the screenplay for the feature film Something Borrowed based on the Emily Giffin novel.
Jennie Snyder Urman grew up in Rye, New York and graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University. She is married to Jamie Urman, a cinematographer, and is the proud (and tired) mommy to Theo and Poppy.
Joanna Klein is currently an Executive Producer at Sutton St. Productions - a partnership with Jennie Snyder Urman under an overall deal at CBSTV. Prior to their deal at CBS TV, Klein was the SVP of Series at Lifetime Network in charge of all development and production for scripted series. This included overseeing the pop-culture hit series UnReal, Greg Berlanti's romantic thriller YOU and the Jenji Kohan dramedy American Princess, which is currently airing.
Prior to Lifetime, Klein served as SVP Scripted Series at The CW Network where she developed over 450 pilot scripts, 14 of which became series that stayed on the air for more than 4 seasons. Before she was at The CW, Klein served as VP Scripted at Regency TV and VP Scripted Series at Lionsgate where she developed such award-winning shows as Emmy/Golden Globe/Writers Guild series Weeds that ran for 8 seasons on Showtime, FX limited series Thief for which Andre Braugher won a Emmy; The Dead Zone which ran for 6 seasons on USA Network and many other pilots and series. Prior to working as a creative TV development executive, Klein worked at Walt Disney Television as a TV financial strategist and Goldman Sachs & Co in NY as an Equities Analyst.
She has a Bachelors of Business from Emory University.
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