Shauna Phelan is Senior Vice President, Live-Action Scripted Content for the Nickelodeon Group. In this role, Phelan oversees the development and production of all Nickelodeon scripted live-action content, as well as all live-action TV movies and specials for the entire Nickelodeon portfolio of brands, which includes Nickelodeon, Nick Jr., Nicktoons and TeenNick.

Phelan joins Nickelodeon from Awesomeness where she was the former head of development and production overseeing scripted and nonscripted series for the leading multiplatform media company serving the global Gen Z audience. She began her career in features at Furst Films in 2002, working on The Cooler and The Matador. She also oversaw Furst Films’ first-look television deal with Lionsgate TV.

In 2007, Phelan worked at Varsity Pictures alongside Brian Robbins as his Director of Television Development, where they developed the TV series Blue Mountain State, which ran for three seasons on Spike TV, and The Royals for E!. In 2012, she became a key member of Robbins’s team that built and launched Awesomeness, where she launched and produced dozens of series and sketch comedy videos for their YouTube channel, including the long-form series Side Effects and Runaways. She also produced Foursome, YouTube Premium’s longest-running series on the platform. Phelan also oversaw Awesomeness’s Verizon go90’s deal where she produced the Daytime Emmy-winning Zac & Mia, social media thriller T@gged, hit digital series Guidance and the female-driven sketch show called Betch.

Phelan’s additional credits include SMOSH: The Movie, which debuted summer 2015 as the number-one comedy movie on iTunes; Expelled, the number-one Social Movie of 2014 that debuted at the top of the iTunes charts; Richie Rich and Project Mc2 on Netflix; Supah Ninjas, Terry the Tomboy: The Movie and Awesomeness’ sketch comedy series on Nickelodeon.

Phelan earned a BA in Visual Arts from Harvard University.