Emmy-nominated producer Stephanie Allain has signed a new first-look deal with Warner Bros. Television Group and HBO. The new agreement continues Allain’s relationship with the Studio, where she and her Homegrown Pictures production company has been under a first-look pact since February 2020.
Allain and her Homegrown Pictures team, including Director of Development Gabrielle Ebron, will develop original scripted programming to be produced by Warner Bros.
Television for HBO and HBO Max, external streaming services, cable, and broadcast.Financial terms were not disclosed, but both WBTVG and HBO confirm it is a multi-year deal.Allain produced the 2020 Academy Awards alongside Lynette Howell Taylor, making history as the first African American woman in the Academy’s 92-year history to do so.
She received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Variety Special (Live) for her work on the Oscars.Allain founded female-led Homegrown Pictures in 2003, a company which produces content by and about women and people of color.
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