EXCLUSIVE: ColorCreative, the management and production company co-founded by Issa Rae, Deniese Davis, and Talitha Watkins, has a new hire: manager-producer Shakira Hedgpeth.
With more than a decade of experience across talent representation, development, and production, Hedgpeth most recently served as Co-Founder and Manager at Bold Media and Management, representing creatives from underrepresented backgrounds. Previously, she was a TV Literary Agent at The Kaplan Stahler Agency.
As a producer and creative executive, Hedgpeth has developed projects with Hallmark, Haymaker Entertainment, Blue Butterfly Productions, and SpringHill Entertainment. Earlier in her career, she held programming and development roles at NBC, TV One, GSN, and CLEO TV, contributing to more than 500 hours of cable and broadcast programming. At NBC, she received the NBC Gem Award for her stewardship of an internal diversity and inclusion initiative.
Hedgpeth’s clients include Ashley Rios (Cross), Morenike Joela (Grey’s Anatomy), Bobby Yan (Sugar Mama), Ace Greene (Love Island), Flex Alexander (One on One), Tasha & Joel Armstead (A Different World), Niya Palmer (Run the World), Bre-Z (All American, Empire). She began her career in representation as a manager and producer at Kronicle Media.
Other recent hires at ColorCreative include Trey Witter and Josiah Akinyele.