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Steve Stark (Executive Producer, The Handmaid's Tale, Wednesday) will share his experience from more than 40 years in the television industry developing and producing multiple award-winning series in a conversation about creating for TV today with Megan McLachlan who covers all things television for Awards Daily.

Brunch begins at 11am, session begins at 11:30am.

About Steve Stark

Steve Stark is an award-winning television producer and studio executive with a legacy of hit and culture-moving series. Steve has served in senior development and other positions at three major studios, Paramount, Columbia TriStar, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and as an executive producer on multiple series for Universal, Paramount, 21st Century Fox, and MGM. Steve was President of MGM Television for nine years before launching his own production company, Toluca Pictures. In his career, he’s originated multiple network-defining and Emmy & Golden Globe award-winning scripted series including: “The Handmaid's Tale” (which made Hulu the first streaming platform to ever win the Emmy Award for Best Drama series), FX's “Fargo,” History's “Vikings,” MTV's “Teenwolf,” and many others. He is a member of the Producers Guild of America, Writers Guild of America, and the Television Academy. 

About Megan McLachlan

Megan McLachlan serves as TV Editor for Awards Daily where she writes compelling interviews with industry insiders and provides analysis and critiques of TV shows and films, as well as the industry itself. She can also be heard weekly on Awards Daily's Water Cooler Podcast. Megan has also written for Buzzfeed, Cosmopolitan, The Cut, Paste, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Seventeen, Thrillist, and the Washington Post, among others. In 2020, she was named Best Local Writer in Pittsburgh Magazine’s Readers’ Poll. She is a member of the Critics' Choice Association and the Hollywood Critics Association.