Dete Meserve
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Dete Meserve is an accomplished creator and producer of movies and award-winning television shows as well as a best-selling and award-winning novelist. As a partner of Wind Dancer Films, she oversees worldwide business and creative properties for the film development, finance, and production company that has generated over $4 billion in revenue from its properties, which include hit television series Roseanne and Home Improvement and feature films including What Women Want (Mel Gibson), Where The Heart Is (Natalie Portman). Her list of credits span television series such Saint George with George Lopez (Executive Producer) as well as hit movies What Men Want, the award-winning comedy Bernie (Executive Producer), The Keeping Room (Executive Producer), and Good Sam (Producer).
Meserve is also leading the company’s growing kids and family brands, including the PBS KIDS series Ready Jet Go!, created by Craig Bartlett (Hey Arnold!, Dinosaur Train) with Meserve as Executive Producer, the stop motion series Storywoods with Lil Buddy Studios, and Not A Box, the animated TV series based on the award-winning book by Antoinette Portis, and others.
Meserve is also the author of the best-selling and award-winning novels including Good Sam, Perfectly Good Crime, The Good Stranger and the international bestseller The Space Between. Meserve adapted her first novel, Good Sam, into a screenplay and produced it as a Netflix Original Film starring Tiya Sircar (The Good Place). The film was released worldwide in May 2019. Her first non-fiction book, Random Acts of Kindness, co-written with award-winning journalist Rachel Greco was published in March 2019.
Meserve lives in Los Angeles with her husband and three children.