Shakira Hedgpeth Joins ColorCreative as Director of Talent

EXCLUSIVE: ColorCreative, the management and production company founded by Essa Rae, Dennis Davis and Talitha Watkins, has made a new hire: director-producer Shakira Hedgpeth. With more than a decade of experience in talent representation, development and production, Hedgpeth most recently served as a co-founder and director at Bold Media and Management, which represented creators from underrepresented backgrounds. Previously, […]

EXCLUSIVE: ColorCreative, the management and production company founded by Issa Rae, Dennis Davis and Talitha Watkins, has a new hire: director-producer Shakira Hedgpet.

With over a decade of experience in talent representation, development and production, Hedgpeth most recently served as co-founder and principal at Bold Media and Management, representing creatives from underrepresented backgrounds. Previously, he was a television literary agent at the Kaplan Stahler agency.

As a producer and creative director, Hedgpeth has developed projects with Hallmark, Haymaker Entertainment, Blue Butterfly Productions and SpringHill Entertainment. Earlier in his career, he 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 leadership of the Internal Diversity and Inclusion Initiative.

Hedgpeth's clients include Ashley Rios (Cross), Mornik Joella (Grey's Anatomy), Bobbi Yan (Sugar Mama), Ace Green (Love Island), Flex Alexander (One on One), Tasha and Joel Armstead (A Different World), Nia Palmer (Run the World), Bre-Z (All American). He started his career with representation as a manager and producer at Chronicle Media.

Other recent hires at ColorCreative include Trey Witter and Josiah Akinyele.

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