Octavia Spencer's Orit Names Film, TV Chiefs
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- Orit Entertainment named Kathryn Tyus-Adair Head of Film and Adam Wagner Head of Television as the company builds out its production slate, with each executive set to oversee development and production strategy in their respective division.
- Kathryn Tyus-Adair arrives from Starz, where as SVP of Original Programming she oversaw series including BMF, The Serpent Queen, Blindspotting, Run the World, Step Up, Vida, and Ava DuVernay's UNT, and served as an executive on Power, Outlander, and The Spanish Princess.
- Tyus-Adair earlier worked in development at NBCUniversal's UTV Studios, with credits including producing St. Vincent starring Bill Murray and overseeing projects including House of Lies, The Guard, Kidnap, The Horse Whisperer, A Civil Action, Soul Food, Barbershop, and Men of Honor.
- Adam Wagner joins from MRC, where as SVP of Television he was part of the senior creative team behind Amazon's The Terminal List franchise — including the upcoming second season and The Terminal List: Dark Wolf — and developed Rabbit, Rabbit, which sold to Netflix and is currently in production.
- Wagner previously served as President of Miguel Sapochnik's 1:26 Pictures, which produced HBO's House of the Dragon, and earlier held executive positions at Jason Bateman's Aggregate Films, 20th Century Fox under Emma Watts, Scott Rudin Productions, and Alexander Payne's Ad Hominem Enterprises.
Why it matters: Orit is pairing Spencer's on-screen profile with two executives whose recent credits — Starz's BMF, Amazon's The Terminal List, HBO's House of the Dragon — span premium cable, broadcast, and streaming, giving the company a credible pitch to develop and sell projects across multiple distribution platforms at once.
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