EXCLUSIVE: The North Street Firm President of Tv Amy Israel continues to assemble her govt staff with the rent of wiip’s Josh Stern in addition to a duo who had labored for her at Showtime, Jamie Pross and Madison Heim-Jinivisian. Stern will function EVP of Tv, Pross as VP of Tv and Heim-Jinivisian as Artistic Govt.
These are the primary TV inventive govt appointments since Israel joined Peter Chernin’s The North Street in late 2023 from Showtime the place she had spearheaded such sequence because the Emmy-nominated Ripley (which finally migrated to Netflix), Fellow Vacationers, Yellowjackets, The Affair and Billions.
“I’m thrilled to deliver three distinctive inventive executives on board,” Israel mentioned. “They every embody an entrepreneurial spirit and drive to supply daring, high-quality, business sequence with one of the best artists and producers on the earth. Josh’s impeccable style, expertise relationships and enterprise acumen will probably be invaluable to our enterprise. Having beforehand labored with Jamie and Maddie, I’ve seen first-hand their means to advocate for and develop materials with each rising and established storytellers. Mixed, these three key hires will make important contributions to North Street’s progress.”
As Artistic Lead at wiip, Stern govt produced the Peabody Award-winning Dickinson, starring Hailee Steinfeld for Apple TV+, and Dummy, starring Anna Kendrick for Quibi and Roku. Previous to wiip, he was with Darren Aronofsky’s Protozoa, the place he oversaw the event of The Whale; govt produced Aronofsky’s Mom! and Pablo Larraín’s Jackie; developed and bought Kindred for FX; and developed, packaged, and govt produced The Good Nurse for Netflix.
Pross most just lately served as Supervisor of Authentic Programming at Showtime the place she performed a key position within the improvement and manufacturing of such sequence as Yellowjackets, Billions, Tremendous Pumped: The Rise Of Uber, and The Lady In The Wall.
Heim-Jinivisian, in her earlier position as Coordinator of Authentic Programming at Showtime, contributed to Yellowjackets and A Gentleman In Moscow.
Along with Israel, the senior govt staff of The North Street, which was launched in 2022, contains Jenno Topping (Chernin Leisure), Chris Coelen (Kinetic Content material), Connor Schell (Phrases + Photos), Rasha and Stephanie Drachkovitch (44 Blue Productions), Ken Druckerman (Left/Proper), Banks Tarver (Left/Proper), Sarah Wetherbee and Emre Sahin (Karga Seven Photos).
The corporate’s upcoming sequence embrace Netflix’s The Insanity, from Stephen Belber; Apple TV+’s Chief of Struggle, created and led by Jason Momoa; The Yankees Win, from documentarian Jonathan Hock; and, with HBO, a docuseries on controversial baseball legend Barry Bonds.
