Sharon Houston

Find families around the country with stunning Christmas light displays.

Find interesting cases featuring funny, colorful litigants for Steve Harvey's court room.

Booked marquis talent with disputes that could be settled in our courtroom.

Supervising Casting Producer: Managing a small team CP/AP while also doing outreach, interviews, one-sheets, and stringing out edits of interviews.

Field and Story!

Host producer for a new competition/elimination show. Wrote all host copy and briefed & prepped celebrity host for set.

Found comedy teams (improvisers and stand up comics) for development for their own show. Used people from my files mostly with some outreach to comedy festivals, improv theaters, and comedy schools nationwide.

Found comedians and influencers for branded content for HBO Max. Conducted all outreach, edited casting reels, and ran the audition sessions.

Traveled to small towns to meet potential participants and record/conduct interviews for casting reels. Managed media in the field & sent to the office, strung out casting reels for the editor while in the field, and did limited outreach on office days.

Find homeowners in the Chicago area who have at least 50k set aside for home renovations. Duties included outreach, conducting Skype calls, getting photos for the casting reel, and editing the casting reels.

Conducted outreach via my files and social media to find funny pairs of contestants for game show pilot who are also long time friends. Collected pictures, conducted some of the Skypes (most are conducted by the owners of The Casting Firm).

Finding comedy, dance, singing, circus acts, and more for AGT. Recording and editing Skype calls with potential talent. Prepping all potential contestants for their auditions and for the wait room/reality that we shoot as part of the show.

Booked locations and produced reality for 1/2 comedy specials that included verite and sit down interviews. Conducted interviews with talent. Strung out episodes on AVID and worked with editors to complete episodes.

Using connections in the world of comedy to find comedians for season 13. Also searched for musicians, magicians, acrobats, and more. Worldwide outreach, not just nationwide, was required.

Develop creative with the EPs, write beat sheets, reach out to locations and clear & release them. Also created one sheets on each of the locations I found via research to pitch to the network.

Outreach to candidates for the cast using my files and social media, conducted Skype interviews. Also gathered extra material for the edit like stills & home video.

Research locations and find talent for untitled Lionsgate/YouTube Red/Pygmy Wolf show. Sorry to be vague but I have to keep this stuff under wraps.

Conceive, shoot (Sony PMW100, GoPro Hero3) all original comedy content for Last Comic Standing/NBC.com. Create string outs of my footage and show footage. Also created GIFs for network's IG. Managed deliverables for FB, NBC.com, and IG.

Manage talent, write story packets, oversee wardrobe budget and ordering of wardrobe, release locations and recurring characters.

Extensive research of convents all over the country who were willing to have their lives documented and televised.

Generated ideas and creative for hidden camera pranks, wrote beat sheets for all hidden camera pranks, reviewed creative with the celebrities participating in the show, cast actors to help facilitate the pranks.

Show Producer

Producer

Booked all the real people who wanted to trade on air with our hosts, acted as go-between between producers in field and the real people who wanted to trade with our hosts, and found unique items for hosts to trade on the show.

Booked stories about people with financial issues and also financial success stories. Wrote up show packets and briefed guests for appearing on the show.

Booked stories for DC, coordinated all evidence, briefed guests, coordinated travel.

Booked guests, coordinated all evidence, coordinated travel, and briefed guests for the courtroom.