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BIO
Jodi Collins  works as a creative producer and manager who develops written and performance work with talent clients while being a casting director on highly select tv shows in soft scripted, sketch and dramedy with some work in theatre and film.  Her successful reputation is as a top industry resource known for her smart eye and as a #1, 'go to' comedy expert covering talent in every arena.

Internationally and nationally, Jodi is hired to scout the country and across every portal of media viewing for network series.  Having the great pleasure of also scouting for sketch shows, Jodi's  intimate knowledge base includes important talent across all areas of 'legit'  work where she's been known to been the 'first' to discover them.  

In dramaturgy fashion jodi has advised two one-person 'black comedy' shows in New York, one for NYTW and Off Broadway, and another for Jeff Ross and the US HBO Comedy Arts Festival  in Aspen now in its Broadway iteration, "Take A Banana For The Ride". 

Jodi is an invited guest on many prestigious comedy panels; HBO's Comedy Arts Festival's  "best one-person show" selecting Bridget Everett  for "Just For Laughs " Montreal festival, best Canadian standup" and can always be found unearthing a next star in the lesser known trenches to bring to the industry's attention as well as find to develop and produce with..

A believer in mentorship and giving back, Jodi is a regular teacher for on camera work and brand knowledge, also touching on esteem and health in pursuing a career in the arts.... affiliated with Hudson Valley's Fable and Sow and NYC's top studio, One On One.   

As a Speaker, Jodi has been invited to many Universities including NYU, Syracuse University/Tepper program, etc.

Within a broad and highly reputed career Jodi continues as a talent and business consultant as well as a talent coach.

Jodi willingly claimed her comedic & dramatic expertise after NYU's BFA training and a "bout" with​performing, herself.

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ADDITIONAL BIO DETAILS      JODI COLLINS

• Producer, Manager, Casting Director covers work across all platforms; digital media's webisodes, cable network's animation, improvised sketch and hybrid projects, and scripted tv for broadcast & cable networks and known for translating her highly imaginative and comedic eye into commercially viable product.  Her ability to develop talent and content illuminates each production with a unique imprint.  As a scout, casting director and producer/manager Jodi is immersed in discovering fresh NEW talent, developing their voice and work from infancy readying them for the industry's attention.  The genesis of her comedy work was conducting national searches for network programming where she began many careers inclusive of championing Kate McKinnon (discovered at Columbia U.), Kristen Schall, Zak Galifanakis, etc. Jodi has always been heavily involved in comedy; also casting national commercial campaigns & branded entertainment for the major ad agencies, along with collaborations that create digital and cross platform content.  Jodi's career beginnings were in advertising and then in fashion, building and running a multimillion dollar department.

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• Developing & Scouting NEW talent is a natural fit; her taste and affinity for comedy talent and emerging performing artists draws Jodi to uniquely fresh performers and ideas which she injects into her projects and then passes onto the mainstream with any luck.  Colored with a clever bite, her sensibility has a downtown flavorwith commercial access. T his is where Jodi discovered her love of “hyphenates,” aka combinations of writer/performer, writer/director, multi media producer l performer, etc. seeking and finding talent who shared a certain take mostly found in comedy and 1-person storytelling.  She is co-founder and  executive producer of the LIVE industry tv pilot & screenplay ​reading series, Creative Control which began in 2005, and was also produced in collaboration with the Upright Citizen's Brigade in 2013.  Jodi's reputation has been defined by her innate ability to spot important trends as well as emerging talent which she is relied upon by clients and colleagues as her signature. ​

 

• Teaching & Workshops are an important aspect of Jodi Collins' career where she also finds and cultivates talent from.  Classes include(d) The Business of the Business for New York University,  Tisch School Of The Arts demistifying the artistic process and she now guests at NYU.  Jodi also continues to teach an ongoing 4 week Comedy-Improv-Branding Workshop  at One on One Productions, is an invited yearly guest lecturer at the Springboard  program produced by the American Theater Wing, producers of the TONY AWARDS and serves as one of eight board members alongside her accomplished colleagues in the esteemed Tepper Semester at Syracuse University in partnership with the Casting Society of America co-teaching those who want to be casting directors During the Covid 19 breakout of 2020  Jodi launched a NEW WORKSHOP exploring how to be a "hyphenate" talent while probing storytelling, authenticity, creativity &  imagination taking that to the next level with projects to be pitched to high level industry and network executives.  Adding to that, Jodi does individual coaching and coaching for younger people applying to college, virtually.

**Along with storytelling, Jodi's mad for her 2 dog boys who bring constant comedy and she is actively involved in social justice.

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