Joe Wiggins Joins Elevate Entertainment As Co-Head Of Development & Production

EXCLUSIVE: Joe Wiggins has joined Elevate Leisure because the Co-Head of Growth and Manufacturing. He will likely be engaged on Elevate’s present slate of scripted and unscripted tasks alongside Co-Head of Growth and Manufacturing Samantha Levenshus.

In a aggressive signing, Wiggins is heading to Elevate from a Head of Growth place at Intrigue, the place he specialised in adapting worldwide codecs and different IP for the U.S. tv and have movie business.

“I’m past thrilled to welcome Joe to the Elevate workforce,” Alex Cole, President of Elevate Leisure tells Deadline. “His expertise and industrial sense are unparalleled and now we have little question he will likely be a really productive member of our workforce.”

Wiggins has bought and produced pilots with all the foremost networks and not too long ago developed characteristic diversifications of a well-liked tabletop sport, a Newbery Award-winning novel, a NYT bestseller and a high-concept graphic novel. Along with his Chilean background, a lot of his tasks have been primarily based on Spanish-speaking codecs such because the CW pilot, Enjoying Useless, which was a remake of the Colombian telenovela, Lynch, in addition to the more moderen NBC pilot, Harmful Mothers, primarily based on the Spanish collection, Senõras del h(Ampa).

When not engaged on tasks primarily based on IP, Wiggins leads the event of genre-defying specs and pitches, whereas additionally figuring out new and various voices to introduce to {the marketplace}. The Boston native graduated with a B.F.A. from Emerson School.

Wiggins is keen to carry his expertise to the Elevate Growth and Manufacturing workforce and produce revolutionary industrial tasks with social relevance.