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Shawn Wilt Biography

Birth Name:Shawn Wilt

Profession Producer, Production manager

Fast Facts

  • Won a Peabody Award for "Switched at Birth" in 2012
  • Started out as an assistant to a talent agent at a small agency
  • Quote: "One of the beauties of production is that when it's all working, it's a machine made up of immensely talented people and, when something goes off somewhere, we work together to fix it․"
  • Quote: "There's a challenge to every show and every project․ So much of it comes down to who you have surrounding you while you're responding and reacting to whatever's coming at you․․․You really need that to have that cohesive team spirit․"
  • Quote: "(On deciding not to go to college): "I didn't spend a lot of time worrying․ I was someone that would jump into an environment and make things happen․""
  • Best known as a producer on "Grounded for Life," the TV series "10 Things I Hate About You," and "Switched at Birth․"
  • Describes her job as a line producer as "[making] order out of chaos․"

Awards

  • 2012Peabody Award-: winner