Robin Budd launched Viewfinder Management in 2012 as an extension of her passion for working with writers and directors in film, television and theatre. Clients have developed pilots at Hulu, Bravo and ABC Family networks and with WBTV and UCP studios. They have staffed on television series on the CW, TBS, Amazon, Hulu, Bravo, and Lifetime, HBO, FX and Netflix. Their plays have been workshopped an
d produced at prestigious national and international venues. Before launching Viewfinder Management, Robin developed with Tom Perrotta an adaptation of his novel, THE WISHBONES, for television as a half-hour comedy series in association with John Wells Productions, WBTV and Showtime. Prior to that, she served as the executive vice president of the New Voices program at the non-profit the HUMANITAS Prize, creating an inaugural slate of television projects that partner “new voices” with experienced showrunners such as Marc Guggenheim, Shonda Rhimes and Tom Fontana. From April 2007 until January 2010, she was the senior vice president of Mandalay Television. Prior to her tenure at Mandalay, she worked for over eleven years at The Bedford Falls Company beginning as Edward Zwick’s assistant. She was a producer on the feature film LONE STAR STATE OF MIND (Screen Gems), a Bedford Falls Company production starring Joshua Jackson and Jamie King and the associate producer on THE SIEGE (20th Century Fox) directed by Edward Zwick. In addition to her work in features for the company, she developed four television pilots with Bedford Falls, and staffed writers and directors on ONCE AND AGAIN (ABC), the critically acclaimed television series created by Zwick and Herskovitz. Robin began her career working in theatre administration at Studio Arena Theatre in Buffalo, New York and at the Huntington Theatre Company in Boston, Massachusetts. Robin Budd has a BFA (magna cm laude) in Theatre Studies from Boston University. A native of Brooklyn, she is an alumna of Stuyvesant High School.
