Lauren Neustadter
President of Film and Television
Los Angeles, California, United States
Lauren Neustadter is President of Film and Television at Hello Sunshine. Since joining the company in 2017 as Head of Film and Television, she has executive produced numerous television projects including three seasons of the Emmy award-winning series The Morning Show (Apple TV+), three seasons of the NAACP award-winning series Truth Be Told (Apple TV+), and the five-time Emmy nominated limited series Little Fires Everywhere (Hulu). She also served as a Supervising Producer on Season 2 of HBO’s Emmy Award-winning series Big Little Lies.
Neustadter’s most recent television work includes executive producing adaptations of the Reese’s Book Club picks The Last Thing He Told Me (Apple TV+) and From Scratch (Netflix), plus Tiny Beautiful Things (Hulu) and Daisy Jones & the Six (Prime Video) which received a combined total of 11 Emmy nominations. She also executive produced My Kind of Country, Apple TV+’s first music competition series, and the psychological thriller series Surface (Apple TV+). In 2022, Neustadter and Reese Witherspoon were named TV Producers of the Year by The Hollywood Reporter. Neustadter has been listed as one THR’s Power 100 Women In Entertainment, and she has been included in Variety’s Power of Women list.
On the film side, Neustadter produced the 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 feature directorial debut Your Place or Mine (Netflix) and Something From Tiffany's (Prime Video) starring Zoey Deutch, both of which earned the top spot on their respective platforms. She is currently in post production on the wedding comedy Cordially Invited, starring Reese Witherspoon and Will Ferrell, for Prime Video.
Before joining the team at Hello Sunshine, Neustadter spent over a decade working in film as an executive at Miramax then 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.