Page 9 - The Caucus Tribute Book 2021

CAUCUS PRODUCER OF THE YEAR Lauren Neustadter
Lauren Neustadter is President of Film and Television at Hello Sunshine. Since joining the company in 2017 as Head of Film and Television, the industry veteran has executive produced numerous projects for Hello Sunshine including the Emmy award-winning series The Morning Show (Apple) and the NAACP award-winning series Truth Be Told (Apple), both of which are currently in production on their second seasons, as well as the five-time Emmy nominated limited series Little Fires Everywhere (Hulu). She also served as a Supervising Producer on season 2 of HBO’s Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning series Big Little Lies. Her work largely contributed to the impressive 18 Emmy nominations Hello Sunshine garnered in 2020 for the company produced series.
Neustadter is executive producing upcoming Hello Sunshine projects including the limited series adaptations of
The New York Times Bestsellers and Reese’s Book Club picks, From Scratch, starring Zoe Saldana (Netflix) and Daisy Jones and the Six, starring Riley Keough and Sam Claflin (Amazon) as well as the limited series adaptation of the upcoming novel The Last Thing He Told Me, starring Oscar winner Julia Roberts (Apple TV+) and My Kind of Country, Apple TV+’s first competition series. On the film side, Neustadter is also producing the highly anticipated film adaptation of one of Reese’s Book Club’s most beloved selections, the chart-topping New York Times Bestselling novel Where the Crawdads Sing (3000 Pictures/Sony), starring Daisy Edgar Jones, as well as Aline Brosh McKenna’s feature directorial debut, Your Place Or Mine (Netflix).
Before joining the team at Hello Sunshine, Neustadter spent over a decade working in film as an executive at Miramax, then at Twentieth Century Fox (with a producing stint in-between). In 2011, she left the feature world to become an executive at FOX network, where she oversaw shows like Brooklyn Nine-Nine, The Mindy Project, Lethal Weapon,
and 24, among others.
Neustadter lives in Los Angeles with her husband and their two children.