Domestic programming exec, Apple TV
LOGLINE Helps steer shows like Shrinking and Margo’s Got Money Troubles for the streamer.
THE ARC Burton’s first love was theater. Growing up in San Jose, she was, by her own admission, a huge theater nerd, though she knew early on that, as she puts it, “I was not meant to be in front of any sort of camera.” So, she began producing plays in high school, and, later, made her way to Chapman University, where she set her sights on becoming a TV exec. After a series of internships (Sony, The Late Late Show) and early gigs (Paradigm, Lionsgate), Burton found herself on the ground floor of Apple TV. She remembers those early days fondly. “Six of us in a room being like, ‘What are we going to do?’ It was so blue-sky and, honestly, so magical,” she says. In the eight years since, the now married exec, who still carves out plenty of time for theater, has been integral to projects like Shrinking, which, with all due respect to her husband, she calls “the love of my life.” Up next: a Margo’s Got Money Troubles adaptation with Elle Fanning and a half-hour thriller with Tatiana Maslany.
MY FIRST JOB IN HOLLYWOOD ENTAILED … “Begging tourists at the Grove to be last-minute The Late Late Show audience members. It was good rejection therapy, and thankfully, the families eating pancakes at DuPars were my warmest crowd.”
FICTIONAL CHARACTER I MOST IDENTIFY WITH “A mix of Leslie Knope and Monica Geller. Doesn’t get more painfully Type A than that.”
