Speaker Erin Junkin

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Erin Junkin

Partner and Co-Head, Scripted Television

WME

The only female department head of television at any of the major talent agencies, Erin Junkin has been with the company for 19 years. She started her career as an intern at Endeavor and continued through the WME merger.

Junkin represents a variety of writers, directors, actors and producers including Nicole Kassell (Watchmen), Soo Hugh (Pachinko), Chris Kelly (The Other Two), Eliza Clark (Y The Last Man), Miguel Sapochnik (Game of Thrones, upcoming House of the Dragon), Sarah Burgess (American Crime Story) and Chris Sheridan (Resident Alien). Among some of the series Junkin has been responsible for selling is the Golden Globe-winning Showtime series The Affair, Rachel Weisz’ series debut Dead Ringers with a straight to series order at Amazon, and Mike Myers’ first TV Series Pentaverate to Netflix, starring and created by Myers. Junkin has also secured overall deals for Soo Hugh (Pachinko) at UCP, Marcus Gardley (The Chi) at Amazon, Janine Nabers (Watchmen) at Amazon, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Kindred) at FX, and Laura Eason (Three Women) at Showtime.

Speaking on: Media Leaders 2022: future forward

At the Banff Media Festival, we met with Netflix and took a ride up Sulphur Mountain on the gondola. That’s where we made the pitch.
- Naveen Prasad, EVP and GM, Elevation Pictures

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