Dete Meserve is an accomplished creator and producer of independent movies and award-winning television shows as well as a best-selling and award-winning novelist. As a key member of the executive ...voir plusDete Meserve is an accomplished creator and producer of independent movies and award-winning television shows as well as a best-selling and award-winning novelist. As a key member of the executive team at Wind Dancer Films, Meserve has been one of the industry's major players in independent film and television production. She currently oversees worldwide business and creative properties for the film development, finance and production company that has generated over $4 billion in revenue from its properties, which include hit television series Roseanne and Home Improvement and feature films including Want Women Want (Mel Gibson), Where The Heart Is (Natalie Portman), Bernie (Jack Black), What Men Want (Taraji P. Henson) and Good Sam (Netflix).
Meserve is also leading the company's growing kids and family brands, including the PBS KIDS series Ready Jet Go!, created by Craig Bartlett (Hey Arnold!, Dinosaur Train) with Meserve as Executive Producer, the stop motion series "Storywoods" with Lil Buddy Studios and Head Writer Carin Greenberg, and Not A Box, the animated TV series based on the award-winning book by Antoinette Portis.
Meserve has produced numerous films and TV series and has been responsible for securing over $75 million in financing for film and TV properties. Her list of credits span award-winning television series such as Home Improvement and Saint George with George Lopez (Executive Producer) as well as hit movies What Women Want, the award-winning comedy Bernie (Executive Producer), The Keeping Room (Executive Producer), What Men Want (Executive Producer) and Good Sam (Producer).
Meserve is also the author of the best-selling and multi-award-winning novel, Good Sam, as well as its sequel Perfectly Good Crime which won the Living Now Book Awards for "books that change the world," and the international bestseller The Space Between (July 2018). Her first novel, Good Sam, is in production, based on the screenplay written by Meserve, as an original film for Netflix for Spring 2019 launch. Her next novel, Random Acts of Kindness, co-written with award-winning journalist Rachel Greco will be published in March 2019. Meserve is at work on a fifth book entitled The Good City for Amazon Publishing/Lake Union.
Prior to joining Wind Dancer Films, Meserve was Vice President of USC Radio, the University of Southern California's radio network. She began her career as Station Manager of the National Public Radio affiliate in Evansville, Indiana and Assistant General Manager of the PBS affiliate. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of PRX/PRI, producers and distributors of premier broadcast and podcast content.
She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and three children.voir moins