Creative vision.
Consider it
handled.
Television Production · Casting & Talent · Live Entertainment
I bring creative vision to life by coordinating the people, schedules, logistics, and moving parts behind television production, casting, live events, and touring.
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Behind the scenes.
Across the industry.
Experience at the intersection of entertainment, talent, and the operations that bring it all together.
Conspiracies and Cover Ups
SEASON 2
Production Manager
Production Manager for Season 2 of Conspiracies and Cover Ups, a Discovery Channel show. Bringing an operational perspective to television production and the coordination behind the scenes.
Bravo TV’s Countess Luann
Managed day-to-day operations, scheduling, communications, partnerships, television projects, and live events for Countess Luann. Coordinated logistics for a 40+ city national cabaret tour, connecting venues, tour management, production crews, and hospitality teams.
Handled backstage operations, run-of-show logistics, dressing rooms, VIP experiences, merchandise, and talent hospitality for performances with audiences of 1,000+ guests.
CNN’s Don Lemon
Produced, wrote, edited, and published digital and social content supporting Don Lemon across breaking news, interviews, and audience engagement initiatives, including behind-the-scenes coverage of the CNN This Morning launch.
Maintained editorial calendars, tracked deliverables, and used performance insights to inform platform-specific content.
Reality Casting Productions
Casting Associate experience within a broader practice of recruiting, casting, and coordinating real people, experts, influencers, and performers for television, documentaries, live events, and branded content.
Skills include targeted research and outreach, pre-interviews, talent evaluation, candidate tracking, and interview scheduling.
New Orleans Fashion Week — Seasons 9–15
Coordinated casting, talent hiring, and creative teams across multi-day, multi-venue events involving 30+ designers and 100+ models.
Managed production logistics, digital scheduling, model boards, and Airtable/CMS systems for assets, call sheets, and run-of-show execution. Oversaw backstage talent flow and cross-team communication.
The Broadside
Managed concerts, festivals, private events, fundraisers, and community programming for audiences of 100–1,500+.
Led client and artist communication, proposals, contracts, timelines, vendors, staffing, budgets, load-ins, and day-of operations. Coordinated production, talent, catering, security, marketing, and venue teams.
Harmony Artists / BiCoastal Productions
Supported a national roster of performing artists through presenter outreach, market research, routing, contracts, technical advancing, settlements, and opportunity follow-up.
Maintained venue and presenter relationships and accurate artist, engagement, and opportunity records while balancing multiple tours and deadlines in a remote environment.
Big-picture thinking.
Every-detail care.
Production management & operations
Production logistics, schedules, travel, vendors, budgets, locations, and on-site execution. Organized documentation and communication keep stakeholders aligned across concurrent projects.
Live events & touring
Event operations, artist coordination, and on-the-road logistics, with an understanding of what talent and production teams need.
Casting & talent
Unscripted casting, participant research, targeted recruitment, pre-interviews, and talent evaluation. Candidate tracking, interview scheduling, and follow-up, backed by experience in representation and artist support.
Content & storytelling
Digital and social production, brand messaging, and creative content shaped around the people and stories at its center.
A creative mind.
An operational instinct.
I’m currently the Production Manager for Conspiracies and Cover Ups, Season 2, a Discovery Channel show. My career has taken me from talent agencies and touring productions to television production, unscripted casting, live events, and digital media.
I’ve worked alongside performers, public figures, and creative teams, balancing the needs of the person, the project, and the production. Good work depends on clear communication, thoughtful relationships, and someone who can keep everything moving.
Today, I bring that perspective to production management, production operations, casting, and talent coordination roles across entertainment and media, including remote collaboration and projects with travel.
My workflow tools include Airtable, Asana, Google Workspace, Slack, Notion, Trello, Microsoft Office, Descript, and Canva.
Let’s talk about your team or project ↗“Samantha Diane is someone everyone should have on their team.”
Behind the scenes.
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Building a team? Producing something new? I’d love to hear about opportunities in production management, production operations, casting, and talent coordination.
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