The mcgarrybowen
creative leader
and SheRunsIt
Working Mom
of the Year
describes how she is
"still figuring it out"
Susan Betteridge has made a profound and positive ...
From marketing
and development
to screenwriting,
Zacuto Studios' leader
of business operations
offers a little
bit of everything
Melissa Kennedy leads the business op...
Meet the woman
who has gone
“full circle” —
actress, singer,
dancer, model,
producer, and
film entrepreneur
Valerie Gobos heads Gobos Film & Entertainment, work...
Joyce Porter is a busy and well-known actor in the Chicago film community. After receiving her M.A. in Theater from Northwestern, she had a long and satisfying career as a profe...
Yasmin is a first-generation West African who has travelled the world, but still feels right at home in her native Chicago, where she spent the last four years as part of the te...
Emily Esperanza is a filmmaker and artist whose passions lie in discarded aesthetics, liminal spaces, guerrilla approaches, and unconventional narrative.
An advocate of rebe...
Jacquelyn Jamjoom is a film and television producer serving as Executive Producer of Chicago based film production company Digital Hydra.
At Digital Hydra, Jacquelyn has pro...
Sarah Clark has worked professionally in the film industry for eight years. Casting has always been her bread and butter, but she's also an Emmy Nominated producer and professio...
Jenny Lumpkin is the international Artist Agent and Senior Producer for Quriosity Productions. Politely referred to as “Q #2”, she is armed with a BFA in both graphic design...
Elise Jaffe is the “spokes teeth” and Executive Producer of Big Teeth Productions, which she co-owns with her husband Gregg.
She’s also known as “Little Miss Bossy P...
Erin Sarofsky established her company, Sarofsky Corp., in January of 2009 in Chicago’s booming West Loop neighborhood.
Sarofsky Corp. specializes in design-driven production,...
Sophia Wong Boccio, 王曉菲, was born and raised in Hong Kong by parents who were part of Hong Kong’s film industry from the 1950’s through the 70’s.
Her father (Won...
After earning a degree in advertising art design, Laura Roeper found her way into photography as a prop stylist, then as a studio manager.
She eventually gained years of exp...
Having never spent a day in college, Mindy learned by doing. She learned by watching and by mirroring some of the greatest creative and production people in the ad business.
...
Carey Lundin is a multi award-winning director, writer and producer specializing in comedic digital series, media for progressive candidates, and documentaries.
Lundin recent...
Marina Killion is an accomplished audio engineer based in Chicago. She has been at Optimus for nine years, where she is currently Senior Audio Engineer. She does everything from...
Laurel joined mcgarrybowen in 2009 and currently serves as President of the Chicago office. In addition to her agency responsibilities she continues to lead the Disney Parks and...
Life is short, so make sure to enjoy playing in the great sandbox!”
I dive into things I dream of, and 2017’s Lost ‘n’ Found was no exception. I had the privilege dir...
Jeanne Caliendo is a born and bred Chicagoan who graduated from Columbia College with a degree in film. By her own admission, she has had “one fulltime job my entire life.”
...
Born in Tehran, Iran, Kamelya Alexan moved to Chicago when she was five-years-old, where she was raised.
Kamelya has worked on and completed over twenty-five projects includ...