Kayla Nicholson

New York 10466 | (678) 634-8459

EDUCATION

Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY

B.S. Film and Media Studies

WORK EXPERIENCE

Lead Producer - The Man Enough Podcast, Wayfarer Studios, July 2022 - August 2023 (Los Angeles, CA)

● End to End production of a major podcast with over 60k listeners per episode and social pages with over 500k followers across accounts.

● Managed production budgets, guest booking, PR relations, editorial calendars, recording schedules, content direction and show distribution.

● Negotiate all vendor budgets, crew and talent fees and releases

● Collaborate with social and marketing teams on short content efforts

Junior Producer - Resonance Content - Office of Mary Ann Marino, August 2021 - July 2022 (Los Angeles, CA)

● At Resonance we created character driven series, films and interactive video games ad campaigns.

● As an AP I crafted series pitches, handled project research, IP breakdown and talent and location scouting.

● In my role I tracked story and legal IP and artist agreements across various projects.

● I created production schedules, budgets, treatment decks, casting lists, crew sheets and hired BTL crew.

Producer’s Assistant - K Period Media - Office of Mary Ann Marino, April 2021 - August 2021 (New York, NY)

● Working under President of Production, Mary Ann Marino, I assisted in the maintenance of company budgets, business and legal agreement tracking, film/tv & content development slates, fielding pitches and creating external pitch decks and concept trailers for creative partners.

Associate Story Producer - (Los Angeles, CA)

MTV’s The Challenge: S36 Double Agents (2020)

MTV’s The CHallenge Special: All Stars (2021)

● Collaborated with the story department to ensure episodes tracked proposed storylines, tracked key updates from daily hot sheets and addressed network notes.

●Utilized Avid to edit story sequences across multiple episodes.

RELATED EXPERIENCE

Founder/ Producer - Chaotic Good Collective

● Chaotic Good Collective is a community artists collective utilizing blockchain technology and Web3 based creative assets to facilitate fair artist payment across a multitude of disciplines.

Creative Director - Nineteenth Amendment Digital Campaign: “Collide”, New York, NY

● Directed and Filmed a campaign for Gen Z targeted digital campaigns using gender non-conforming models featuring industry mavens Coco and Breezy.

Creative Producer (Photo & Community) - Build and Bloom, January 2018 - August 2019 (New York, NY)

● Executed production of social content, managed online communities.

SKILLS

Adobe Premiere Pro; Movie Magic Budget, Monday.com, Avid, Audition, Final Cut, Microsoft Excel, Powerpoint, Word; Dropbox, Chartable,GoogleDrive, InDesign, Canva, Slack, Asana, MMB, MMS, Final Draft, Celtx

AFFILIATIONS

Tribeca Film Festival Ambassador

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