EXCLUSIVE: After eight and a half years as SVP Drama Sequence at HBO, Nora Skinner is gong to Netflix the place she can be VP within the streamer’s drama collection staff. Based mostly at Netflix’s Los Angeles headquarters, Skinner, a former movie producer and government, will begin on the finish of Might, reporting to Jinny Howe, Netflix’s VP of Drama Sequence.
Skinner’s appointment follows Howe’s promotion in January to supervise all of Netflix’s drama areas. Skinner just isn’t backfilling Howe’s earlier position. As a substitute, she is going to lead improvement of elevated and status dramas, tapping into her expertise engaged on such award-winning HBO collection as Succession, The White Lotus, Mare Of Easttown and Watchmen.
“Nora’s stellar repute and monitor file converse for themselves,” Howe stated. “She has impeccable style and her capability to companion with artists to ship beautiful status dramas is bar none. We’re thrilled to have her be part of the staff and stay up for working collectively on our subsequent era of groundbreaking and iconic collection.”
Skinner’s departure from HBO is claimed to be amicable because it permits a gifted government to develop and handle her personal staff, which she is going to be capable to do at Netflix.
For many of her HBO tenure, since becoming a member of the premium cable community as SVP, Drama Sequence in September 2015, Skinner had been a member of the staff led by HBO’s formidable head of drama Francesca Orsi, a high lieutenant of Casey Bloys, CEO of HBO and Max Content material, and a driving pressure behind HBO’s drama and restricted collection awards dominance over the previous few years.
Whereas at HBO, Skinner was the inventive government on Succession, The White Lotus, Mare Of Easttown, Watchmen, Scenes From A Marriage, The Outsider, The Third Day, Our Boys, present collection The Regume and the upcoming Unt. Process Drive/ Brad Inglesby and The Sympathizer.
“It has been the privilege of my profession to work with Casey and Frannie, the sensible staff at HBO, and the outstanding artists who’ve impressed me endlessly over the previous eight and half years,” Skinner stated.
Along with Howe, she acknowledged high Netflix executives Bela Bajaria and Peter Frielander.
“Now, as I embark on this new chapter, I’m thrilled to hitch forces with the exceptional staff at Netflix, led by Bela, Peter and Jinny,” she stated. “I’ve lengthy admired their excellent programming, and their dedication to and help of creators. The prospect of working with such a dynamic, revolutionary group guarantees to be the journey of a lifetime. I’m desirous to proceed pushing inventive boundaries and creating groundbreaking content material at Netflix, a world chief and cultural mainstay.”
Previous to HBO, Skinner was EVP of Manufacturing and Improvement at Indian Paintbrush. There, she was an government producer on Sundance 2015 Grand Jury Prize Winner Me And Earl And The Dying Lady and Extraordinarily Loud & Extremely Shut in addition to affiliate producer on The Reader and Doubt.
Earlier than becoming a member of Indian Paintbrush, Skinner was SVP of Improvement at Scott Rudin Productions in New York, the place she labored on The Social Community, The Lady With The Dragon Tattoo, Moneyball, Revolutionary Highway, The Different Boleyn Lady, The Incredible Mr. Fox, and Julie & Julia, amongst different movie, tv and theater tasks.
Along with engaged on the Tribeca Movie Pageant, Skinner served because the Director of Jane Rosenthal and Robert De Niro’s Tribeca Theatrical Productions and the Co-Managing Director of their Tribeca Theater Pageant.
