Common Worldwide Studios has appointed former Netflix govt Tesha Crawford as senior VP of worldwide scripted collection.
Based mostly in London, Crawford will report into UIS president Beatrice Springborn and concentrate on increasing the studio’s scripted slate within the U.Okay. and Europe. Crawford might be liable for scouting and packaging new initiatives for UIS and supporting its portfolio of offers, expertise and initiatives. She can even head up the studio’s U.Okay.-based inventive workforce.
Crawford joins from Netflix, the place she spent the final six years working throughout worldwide unique collection and was one of many first content material executives employed on the Netflix Worldwide Originals workforce.
The exec began in Latin America, constructing the platform’s slate of originals together with “La Casa De Las Flores” (“The Home of Flowers”), “Ingobernable,” “3%,” “Coisa Mais Linda” (“Ladies from Ipanema”) and “Sintonia.”
She later relocated to Amsterdam to steer the corporate’s first Nordics collection workforce, growing and overseeing collection corresponding to “Quicksand,” “Ragnarok,” “Snabba Money” and “The Playlist.”
Most just lately primarily based in London, she labored throughout international franchise collection, overseeing exhibits corresponding to “The Witcher” and “Millarworld.”
Previous to becoming a member of Netflix, Crawford served as senior VP of scripted improvement at Excellent Leisure in New York, growing and packaging exhibits for Lionsgate, Fox and YouTube Purple. Previous to that, she labored at Marvel Stay Tv.
Crawford will accomplice with Kelsey Stability, senior VP of worldwide scripted collection, who leads the U.S.-based workforce in Los Angeles, throughout all international territories. Most just lately, Stability has shepherded initiatives corresponding to “The Plotters” with Soo Hugh, “Apples By no means Fall” with Heyday Tv, which is heading to Peacock, and “The Day of the Jackal” for Sky and Peacock.
Springborn, president of Common Worldwide Studios, stated: “Tesha is such a power and is so revered for her distinctive style and eye for figuring out nice international expertise. We’re thrilled to have her be part of the usfamily and sit up for her and Kelsey forging a powerhouse dynamic to deliver much more thrilling voices and tales to international audiences.”
Crawford added: “I’m so excited to be becoming a member of UIS. Beatrice has such a robust imaginative and prescient for the inventive workforce that tremendously aligns with what I’ve all the time believed in when making exhibits. This can be a distinctive second within the trade, which is evolving globally increasingly more every day. In order the studio continues to interrupt floor with its programming and partnerships with international storytellers, I sit up for constructing on its legacy as a house for creators to do their finest, most progressive work with out boundaries.”
Uiversal Worldwide Studios includes the manufacturing corporations Carnival Movies, Monkey Kingdom, Matchbox Photos, Working Title Tv and Heyday Tv, plus international codecs division NBCUniversal Codecs. The studio’s initiatives embrace “We Are Woman Components,” “Every thing I Know About Love,” “The Seize,” “Clickbait,” “Everybody Else Burns,” “Made in Chelsea” and “That’s My Jam.”
