Twenty years ago I walked onto my first production set with no playbook and figured it out. That experience defined everything that followed. I have spent my career deliberately seeking out formats that did not exist yet, production systems that needed to be invented, and creative environments where the only way forward was to build something new.
I have showrun flagship franchises for Discovery and MAX, produced large-scale live competition series for NBC, and spent years embedded inside NBCUniversal's development infrastructure evaluating what gets made and why. Every one of those experiences required the same core skill: getting a room full of talented, opinionated people moving in the same direction without losing what made the idea worth making in the first place.
Looking to bring that experience into a larger creative organization where building something new is the mission. It is exactly what I do. Every show I have built required designing a workflow that had never existed before, leading a team through genuine creative uncertainty, and delivering something repeatable at the end of it.
The tools change. The production logic does not. Whether I am managing a VFX pipeline for a paranormal franchise or a GenAI render pass for a short-form experimental piece, the job is identical: protect the creative, build the system, hit the date.
I am based in Studio City, CA. I am actively looking for my next challenge.
casey.dale@gmail.com · 424.241.8099
Every production I take on starts the same way. I map the unknowns, identify the dependencies, and design a workflow before a single frame is shot. Most productions fail in pre-production, not in the edit. I build the infrastructure that prevents that.
Once production is moving I am the connective tissue between every department. Creative, technical, post, network. My job is to make sure every team knows what the other teams need, decisions get made at the right level, and nothing falls through the gap between departments.
When it is over I write it down. What worked, what failed, what changes next time. Every system I build becomes a template the next team can inherit. That is how you turn a one-off production into a repeatable format.
I am actively looking to bring 20 years of original production experience into a larger creative organization. If you are building something experimental and need someone to run the room, let's talk
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