Lauren Neustadter

Lauren Neustadter / Hello Sunshine President, Film and Television

Lauren Neustadter is President of Film and Television at Hello Sunshine. Since joining the company in 2017 as Head of Film and Television, the industry veteran has executive produced numerous television projects for Hello Sunshine including three seasons of the Emmy award-winning series The Morning Show (Apple), three seasons of the NAACP award-winning series Truth Be Told (Apple), and the five-time Emmy nominated limited series Little Fires Everywhere (Hulu). She also executive produced the acclaimed limited series From Scratch, starring Zoe Saldana (Netflix), and served as a Supervising Producer on Season 2 of HBO’s Emmy Award-winning series Big Little Lies. In 2022, she and Reese Witherspoon were named TV Producers of the Year by The Hollywood Reporter.

Neustadter is currently executive producing several prominent upcoming Hello Sunshine projects, including adaptations of the New York Times bestsellers and Reese’s Book Club picks Daisy Jones and the Six, starring Riley Keough and Sam Claflin (Amazon), and The Last Thing He Told Me, starring Jennifer Garner (Apple TV+). She is also executive producer of the upcoming second season of the psychological thriller series Surface, starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Apple TV+), the highly anticipated series Tiny Beautiful Things, inspired by Cheryl Strayed’s best selling collection of essays and starring Kathryn Hahn (Hulu), and My Kind of Country, Apple TV+’s first music competition series.

On the film side, Neustadter produced the film adaptation of one of Reese’s Book Club’s most beloved selections, the chart-topping New York Times bestselling novel WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING (3000 Pictures/Sony), which stars Daisy Edgar Jones and surpassed $100 million at the worldwide box office. She also produced Aline Brosh McKenna’s upcoming feature directorial debut YOUR PLACE OR MINE (Netflix) and SOMETHING FROM TIFFANY’s (Amazon), starring Zoey Deutch.

Before joining the team at Hello Sunshine, Neustadter spent over a decade working in film as an executive at Miramax, then at Twentieth Century Fox (with a producing stint in-between). In 2011, she left the feature world to become an executive at FOX network, where she oversaw shows like Brooklyn Nine-Nine, The Mindy Project, Lethal Weapon and 24, among others.

Neustadter lives in Los Angeles with her husband and their two children.