JENNIFER ERWIN
With 17 years of production experience, Jennifer Erwin has been involved in many facets of the entertainment business, producing a variety of award-winning and industry-changing television series. Her experience includes working at the executive level for international broadcast networks, as well as working as an independent producer.
After graduating from UCLA, Jennifer began interning for ICM at the Cannes Film Festival. Shortly after, she landed a full time job at the William Morris Agency in the talent department. It was this experience at William Morris that helped Jennifer determine that production was where she wanted to take her career.
She left the agency and began assisting the Executive Producer of VH1’s Behind the Music. After convincing the network to produce a Duran Duran episode, she was promoted to Associate Producer. After five years at MTV Networks and producing two award-winning series, she received a call from NBC to work on a new “reality” show entitled Fear Factor. Just as reality television was emerging, Jennifer already had years of story-telling and documentary film-making experience behind her, so moving on to large scale broadcast network shows was a natural move.
After many years of producing and developing memorable programs, such as America’s Next Top Model and Paradise Hotel, she became the Director of Development for UPN and CW networks. Jennifer spent three years at the networks developing and overseeing the hit shows America’s Next Top Model and Beauty & The Geek.
With a strong interest in scripted film and television, she left the network to pursue that passion. Immediately she obtained the rights to the best-selling book about America’s first FBI profiler entitled, Mindhunter. After bringing the book to Charlize Theron’s attention, the project quickly found a home at HBO. Erwin will serve as Executive Producer alongside Theron and David Fincher, who will also direct the pilot (http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118014379?refCatId=14).
After building a slate of features and scripted TV projects, Erwin started Jen X Productions, Inc. in 2008, an homage to her Gen X generation. Out of the gate, Jen X produced two pilots and currently has projects in development ranging from thrillers to animated apps for children.
Recently, Jennifer partnered with San-X, Co. Ltd., and obtained the master licence for one of their adorable characters, the Space Hamster™. The brand launched in June of 2012 at the Licensing Expo in Las Vegas with a mulit-faceted iOS animated application and apparel line. The next phase in Erwin’s career will be focused on the Space Hamster™ brand and launching an animated television series centered around the characters.
