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FTT Talks Presents
Katie O’Connell (ND ’99), Senior Vice President, Drama Development, NBC Entertainment
“Developing Prime-Time Television”
Tuesday, November 13, 2007, at 7pm
Browning Cinema, Debartolo Performing Arts Center. This is a FREE but ticketed event. Call the Ticket Office at 574.631.2800 to reserve tickets.
Katie O’Connell, who graduated from Notre Dame’s American Studies program in 1991, is currently the Senior Vice President of Drama Development at NBC Entertainment in Los Angeles. She guided the pilot development and launch of freshmen series Chuck, Life, Bionic Woman, and Journeyman, and she is currently overseeing a slate of sixty potential drama projects and working with prominent writers and directors including Barry Sonnenfeld, Tom Fontana, and Dick Wolf. Ms. O’Connell was previously at Imagine Television, where she developed numerous comedy and drama projects, including the Emmy Award-winning shows Arrested Development and 24. In her talk, Ms. O’Connell will show clips from shows that she has developed and discuss the process of turning a program from a pilot idea into a television series.
Sponsored by the Browning Cinema, DeBartolo Performing Arts Center, Department of American Studies, Department of Film, Television, and Theatre, and Notre Dame Alumni Association.