Stephanie Wagner. Courtesy of White Label Productions.
Leading unscripted content producer White Label Productions today announced Stephanie Wagner has been named Senior Vice President and Head of Production. Additionally, Netflix and All3Media alum Katie Judkins has joined the company as Director of Production. Both Wagner and Judkins report to Founder & CEO Chris Wagner and, working closely with Production Coordinator Sydney Summers, will be charged with elevating the company’s production services offering on the heels of a slate of high-profile series produced in the last year such as Miss Universe 2021 in Israel for FOX, Savage X Fenty Show for Amazon Prime Video, Can’t Cancel Pride 2021 for iHeart and Hulu, two seasons of Unicorn Hunters with Craig Plestis, A Very Boy Band Holiday for ABC, and Masked Singer: Japan.
“Stephanie and Katie are seasoned, well-respected producers and we’re thrilled to leverage their industry acumen and relationships with our network, studio and digital partners,” said Chris Wagner. “Both executives will be integral to White Label’s success over the next year as we rapidly expand our global operations and post-production footprint.”
With over 15 years of production management and casting experience across broadcast, cable and streaming, as well as an Emmy nomination for her work on Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader, Stephanie Wagner most recently served as Executive in Charge of Production on celebrity game show Barmageddon for USA Network, A Very Boy Band Holiday for ABC, Savage x Fenty Show Vol. 3 for Amazon, and The 94th Oscars Nomination Show. Previously, Wagner served as Director of Unscripted Production at MGM Television. Additional production management credits include Lego Masters, Name That Tune, Encore!, Better Late Than Never, Beat Shazam, American Grit, The Bachelor, and The Bachelorette. Her casting credits include Best New Restaurant, Hell’s Kitchen, Kitchen Nightmares, Hotel Hell, Worst Cooks in America, Secret Millionaire, True Beauty and The Moment of Truth.
Katie Judkins comes to White Label from Netflix where she managed physical production for its slate of nonfiction series. There, she handled production services for such popular titles as Selling Sunset, Love is Blind, Queer Eye, and Car Masters: Rust to Riches, among others. Previously, she served as Production Manager at All3Media America responsible for physical production across its slate of unscripted series including Deep Creek, Gameday Commute, Second Wives Club and Dating #no filter.
With over 20 years of experience in all genres of television across all platforms around the world, White Label Productions has overseen more than $2.5 billion in TV budgets and offers its partners a competitive deal structure at an unbeatable price point for the networks. In addition to the aforementioned projects produced over the last year, WLP has overseen such popular series as The Masked Singer for FOX, Impractical Jokers: Dinner Party for TruTV, Celebrity Show-Off for TBS, Encore! for Disney+, and HBCU: Meet Me On the Yard for YouTube. WLP’s work has received Emmy nominations for Season Three of The Masked Singer and the syndicated edition of Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?
In the last year, White Label also tripled its staff due to the increased 2021 output and consulted for networks during COVID, devising an international reality format that uses White Label’s global reach to edit remotely and help drive efficiencies. White Label also launched post-production company and facility, Post-Haus, becoming a one-stop shop turnkey production solution.
