Joe Wiggins Joins Elevate Leisure As Co-Head Of Growth & Manufacturing

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EXCLUSIVE: Joe Wiggins has joined Elevate Leisure as co-head of growth and manufacturing. He’ll work on Elevate's present slate of scripted and unscripted tasks alongside co-head of growth and manufacturing Samantha Levenshus.

In a aggressive signing, Wiggins heads to Elevate from a Head of Growth position at Intrigue, the place he specialised in adapting worldwide codecs and different mental properties for the US movie and tv business.

“I’m past excited to welcome Joe to the Elevate group,” Alex Cole, president of Elevate Leisure, tells Deadline. “His expertise and enterprise sense are unparalleled and we’ve got little doubt that he might be a really productive member of our group.”

Wiggins has offered and produced pilots for main networks and just lately developed diversifications of a well-liked board recreation, a Newbery Award-winning novel, a NYT bestseller, and a high-concept graphic novel. Together with his Chilean origin, a lot of his tasks have been primarily based on Spanish-speaking codecs such because the CW pilot, enjoying the lifelesswhich was a brand new model of the Colombian cleaning soap opera, Lynchin addition to NBC's most up-to-date pilot, Harmful Mothers, primarily based on the Spanish sequence, Women of the h (Ampa).

When not engaged on IP-based tasks, Wiggins leads the event of genre-defying specs and proposals, whereas figuring out new and numerous voices to convey to market. The Boston native graduated with a BFA from Emerson Faculty.

Wiggins is keen to convey his expertise to Elevate's growth and manufacturing group and produce revolutionary business tasks with social relevance.