Senior Unscripted TV Production Leader and Producer

SHANNON SHARKEY

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SUMMARY

Accomplished Creative and Supervising Producer with years of experience leading high-profile unscripted television and streaming productions. Expert in end-to-end production management, from concept development and budgeting to multi-location shoots and post- delivery. Oversaw all aspects of production, including creative treatments, scheduling, staffing, and legal contracts across locations, vendors, and appearances. Directed camera crews and talent for both in-studio and on-location shoots, generating schedules, call sheets, and beat sheets to ensure efficient workflow. Managed and led teams of 50+ crew members while liaising across departments and implementing systems to streamline communication and timeliness. Collaborated closely on content planning to achieve creative and production goals, and successfully developed, monitored, and reconciled budgets exceeding $2M+—consistently delivering projects on time, on brand, and within scope. CORE COMPETENCIES

• Production Management and Administration: Expert in end-to-end production management, including schedules, budgets, and logistics, ensuring projects are delivered on time, on budget, and at network-standard quality.

• Creative Development and Video Production: Skilled in conceptualizing and executing original unscripted formats, overseeing video production from ideation to post-production, and delivering audience-driven content across multiple platforms.

• Cross-Functional Team Leadership: Proficient in managing and coordinating large-scale production teams (50+ crew members) across multi- location, national, and international shoots, fostering collaboration between editorial, legal, creative, and field departments.

• Budgeting, Scheduling and Resource Optimization: Experienced in developing, monitoring, and reconciling production budgets, optimizing crew allocation, vendor contracts, and resources to maximize efficiency without compromising creative quality.

• Talent and Stakeholder Coordination: Primary point of contact for assigned brand teams on all video/photo production needs. Lead liaison with on-screen brands, celebrity guests, clients, network executives, sponsors, and vendors, ensuring alignment with creative vision, contractual compliance, and production objectives. Ensure all production partners are aligned to brand objectives and creative standards.

• Technical and Administrative Tools Proficiency: Strong grasp of video production workflows, confident leading projects from ideation to completion, and skilled in MS Office (PowerPoint, Excel, Word), Google Suite, Zoom, Slack, Adobe Creative Suite, Frame.io, and Canva. PRODUCTION EXPERIENCE

Producer Jan 2025 - May 2025

B17 Entertainment

On Brand with Jimmy Fallon (NBC, Season 1)

• Collaborated with NBC’s branded content and creative strategy teams to conceptualize and produce innovative unscripted segments and experimental activations that merged entertainment with sponsor storytelling, driving audience engagement across multiple digital and linear platforms.

• Primary point of contact for episodic brand teams, (Marshall, Pillsbury, Dunkin, Therabody, Sonic, Captain Morgan) on all video/photo production needs.

• Organized creative and large-scale logistics for a marketing-competition series. Adept at liaising with on-screen talent, celebrity guests, clients, network executives, sponsors, and vendors, ensuring alignment with creative vision, contractual compliance, and production objectives. Ensure all production partners are aligned to brand objectives and creative standards.

• Maintained full compliance with SAG-AFTRA, graphics, vendor, and network protocols on multi-location shoots involving celebrity talent, camera crews, and studio staff, ensuring seamless execution under rapid production timelines. Supervising Producer Jan 2022 - Feb 2025

TeamSheed Productions

Deb’s House (WETV/ALLBLK, Seasons 1–2)

• Ownership of two production cycles of an original unscripted format, managing 50+ cross-functional crew members.

• Experienced in developing, monitoring, and reconciling production budgets up to $500K+, optimizing crew allocation, vendor contracts, and resources to maximize efficiency without compromising creative quality.

• Piloted concept creation, script outline, and production design for a music competition reality format, guiding every step from pitch deck development, integrating cinematic lighting, scripted narration, post production tools using Adobe Creative Suite, Frame.io, and unscripted improvisation.

• Oversaw end-to-end production management, including schedules, budgets, and logistics, ensuring projects are delivered on time, on budget, and at network-standard quality.

• Orchestrated collaboration between creative, legal, and editorial departments to ensure smooth communication, compliance, and creative integrity throughout every stage of filming and editing.

• Adept at liaising with on-screen talent, celebrity guests, clients, network executives, sponsors, and vendors, ensuring alignment with creative vision, contractual compliance, and production objectives.

• Strong grasp of video production workflows, confident leading projects from ideation to completion. Production Supervisor Jan 2023 - Aug 2024

INE Entertainment

Khaby: Coming to America (Tubi TV, Season 1), How Do You Airport? (ReachTV, Pilot)

• Administered nationwide filming logistics for a cross-cultural reality series, managing travel coordination, call sheets, and on-set operations on a compressed timeline.

• Oversaw field logistics, permits, locations, props, and celebrity participation to legal clearances.Coordinated partnerships with airports and airline brands, securing filming access, negotiating sponsorships, and ensuring creative alignment with corporate marketing initiative Supervising Producer Jan 2016 - May 2024

Funny or Die / TruTV

Billy on the Street (TruTV/YouTube, Seasons 5 + Digital Specials, Election Special)

• Oversaw field logistics, permits, locations, props, and celebrity participation to legal clearances.

• Orchestrated fast-turnaround shoots across multiple seasons and specials and managed crowd coordination. Supervising Producer Oct 2022 - Feb 2023

EOne Entertainment

Selected Credit: The Love Experiment (VH1, Season 1), Milf Manor (TLC, Season 1)

• Formulated the creative framework and daily execution plan for MTV’s new social-experiment dating series, shaping tone, visual rhythm, and casting approach to appeal to Gen-Z audiences.

• Oversaw end-to-end production management, including schedules, budgets, and logistics.

• Controlled complex international field operations across multiple villas, overseeing housing, travel, and crew logistics for 60 + staff while upholding confidentiality and network ethics standards. Jan 2022- May 2022

Supervising Producer

TeamSheed Productions

Selected Credit: Pet Caves (Crackle, Season 1)

• Primary point of contact for PETSMART brand team on all video/photo production needs. Lead liaison with on-screen brands, celebrity guests, clients, network executives, ensuring alignment with creative vision, contractual compliance, and production objectives.

• Directed a lifestyle makeover format that combined emotional storytelling and sponsor visibility, supervising set construction, art direction, and post workflows to meet Crackle’s streaming specs.

• Cultivated partnerships with advertisers and creative agencies to design integrated brand segments, driving measurable engagement uplift and repeat sponsorship interest for subsequent projects. Producer

A&E Networks

Selected Credit: Twisted Classics (A&E, Season 1)

• Constructed modernized reinterpretations of iconic culinary tales, integrating cinematic lighting, scripted narration, and food styling.

• Primary point of contact for Restaurants and Chefs on all video/photo production needs. Jun 2021 - Aug 2021

Producer

ITV

Selected Credit: Table Wars (HGTV, Season 1), Forged in Fire (History, Season 2 & 3)

• Curated large-scale event design challenges, coordinating creative teams and managing resources to deliver sponsor- integrated episodes that reflected HGTV’s upscale aesthetic and brand consistency.

• Primary point of contact for HGTV brands and HOME GOODS brand on all video/photo production needs. Jan 2020 - May 2021

Producer

Evolution Media

Selected Credit: The Big Shot with Bethenny Frankel (HBO Max, Season 1)

• Organized large-scale logistics for a business-competition series, coordinating contestants, challenges, and studio operations while refining narrative flow to enhance pacing and streaming quality.

• Primary point of contact for SkinnyGirl brand on all video/photo production needs. Oct 2019 - Feb 2020

Producer

Optomen Productions

Selected Credit: Worst Cooks in America (Food Network, Seasons 17–18)

• Facilitated collaboration among culinary, technical, and editorial teams, aligning kitchen operations and contestant timing while refining feedback loops to sharpen pacing and sustain Food Network’s competitive energy. Additional Producer Credits

Tricked (BYUtv, Seasons 2–3) Grand Hustle (BET, Season 1), Project Runway All Stars (Lifetime, Seasons 6–7), Paradise Run

(Nickelodeon, Season 3)

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Arts in Communications

Monmouth University Monmouth, NJ - May 2005

Jan 2019 - Apr 2019

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