BARBARA H. WALL FOUNDER/CEO TUATARA MEDIA BIO 2025

BARBARA H. WALL

FOUNDER/CEO TUATARA MEDIA Media Executive/Independent Producer/Strategic Advisor/Business Development

Barbara Wall has a wide-ranging career in global multi-platform content development, programming and production. She’s held senior-level studio and network executive positions throughout the entertainment industry, and in 2023 founded TUATARA MEDIA, providing strategic consulting and advisory services for intellectual property (IP)acquisition, library content analysis, and brand consultation for corporate boards, private equity firms, emerging companies, and high-profile individuals focused on entertainment-sector business development.

Barbara is perhaps most known for her fierce commitment to creative excellence, consistently earning awards and accolades, critical acclaim and ratings benchmarks. Most recently, as Executive Producer, Barbara and the teams at Annapurna and Amazon garnered a Peabody Award and Golden Globe nomination for Dead Ringers, from EP Alice Birch (Normal People) and starring the

Academy Award-winning Rachel Weisz. In December, 2024 Barbara wrapped principal photography on Love in the Air, a Hallmark Channel

romantic comedy starring Lorenzo Lamas, Gail O’Grady and Paul Green.

Currently Tuatara Media is partnered with acclaimed actress Regina Hall (Girls Trip) on three drama series which they will take to market in early 2025.

And in 1Q25, with Emmy-winning writer/showrunner Glen Morgan (X-Files), Barbara is pitching a genre series from Birdbox author Josh Malerman starring Lucy Boynton.

Barbara has also worked with renowned screenwriter Joe Eszterhas, one of Tuatara’s first clients. Mining Mr. Eszterhas’s extensive film library with such iconic titles as Basic Instinct and Showgirls, and most known for his work on Flashdance, Sliver and The Jagged Edge, they targeted over twenty wholly-owned scripted projects ranging from a bio-pic soccer series about one of the founders of Real Madrid; an original series based on Joe’s early years as a precocious journalist at Rolling Stone; to an epic theatrical motion-picture called My Flesh and Blood, based on the true story behind Joe’s discovery of his father’s past as a Nazi collaborator during WWII.

A sampling from the Tuatara development slate:

• A sports scripted series set at an NCAA university called This is the Year
• Colonel’s Cut, crime thriller about the birth of the drug trade in the deep south from German writer

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• Wise Gals - Limited/back-door true story about the women behind the men who founded the CIA from Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Christopher Wilkinson (Ali, Nixon)
• Niceville, a Southern Gothic book trilogy currently adapted by Daniel Knauf (HBO’s Carnival)
• Thursday the 12th, a thriller based on the ITV mini-series from iconic UK writer Paula Milne (The
• After You – A UK-based conspiracy thriller based on the novel from acclaimed Random House YA

• Project slate development (series, theatrical, non-fiction, unscripted/alternative, short-form content and animation)
• Overseeing existing shows/assets through all phases from inception to production
• Utilizing extensive relationships on the talent/buyer/financier/representation sides
• Packaging and selling cross-platform content
• Infrastructure and team building and management
• Design and execution of written/verbal sales presentations (sizzle reels, decks, etc.)
• Business and legal affairs deal structuring/analyses for artists, distributors, US/International
• Production Management and Distribution
• Sourcing production financing opportunities for theatrical sales and international series co-

• Fox/FX comedy Major League from the producers of Cobra Kai
• Ace Ventura theatrical reboot at Amazon with the Sonic the Hedgehog writers
• Young Guns adaptation as a straight to series order at Netflix
• The Exorcist – two seasons on Fox and a three-picture deal at Universal
• Nightbreed - Series adaptation from horror-master Clive Barker
• Genre series Stay Tuned with AMC Studios from the EPs of Fear the Walking Dead

• USA Network for an original Hong Kong-based conspiracy thriller
• UFA/Fremantle English language crime thriller set on a Berlin-based US military base

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• Australian/UK limited series based on D.H. Lawrence’s short story Love Among the Haystacks
• Liminal, a Spanish-language horror anthology series from the Columbian writer/director of Poni-Boy
• Diabolique, English language adaptation of the Henri Georges-Clouzot French New Wave film

• Harper Collins/William Morrow Russian mafia biography “The Last Boss of Brooklyn,” with Peter Landesman (Concussion) adapting as an international scripted series
• “Medals” - A visceral true story/limited series about a female Marine in Afghanistan
• With the William Peter Blatty Estate, prequel and sequel novels within The Exorcist canon
• On-Line Gaming, Pod-Cast production, and E-Sports, utilizing a combination of branded and original IP

• Lionsgate/Executive Vice President: Developed/supervised multiple Emmy award-winning series - Mad Men (AMC), Nurse Jackie, Weeds (Showtime), and Orange is the New Black (Netflix), Boss (Starz), The Dresden Files (USA), Blue Mountain State (Spike TV), The Lost Room (Sci Fi)
• 20th Television/Senior Vice President: Developed/supervised 24 with Imagine Television
• Fox/Vice President of Current Series: Entrusted to oversee the network’s top-rated dramas Ally
• TNT/Vice President: Initiated the cabler’s first series division: Dark Horse Comic’s Witchblade,
• Co-Executive Producer: House (Fox/Universal); Century City (CBS/Universal) with Viola Davis and

• Great Pacific Media/Thunderbird Entertainment/Atomic Cartoons: Tuatara founded the premium content/original series division, with projects from such notable authors such as Jodi Picoult, Josh Malerman, Carsten Stroud and Julie Buxbaum
• Valiant Comics: Formed series division based on comics library, leading to DMG buy-out
• New Frontier Media: Board Proxy battle leading to sale to Flynt Communications
• Lionsgate: Post term helped launch Tyler Perry’s Madea franchise in theatrical/series animation

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THE TUATARA MEDIA REMIT:

Since Barbara Wall started Tuatara Media in January 2023, her interests and skillsets have grown exponentially from her ability to demonstrate adaptability, enthusiasm and the ongoing desire to learn. While vigilantly maintaining an entrepreneurial spirit, as a business owner/founder, she wears multiple hats, forged by her expertise in branding, media advisory, strategic planning and business development, along with refining her already extensive experience in the entertainment content sectors of development, business affairs, production management and operations.

THE TUATARA MEDIA CORPORATE PHILOSOPHY:

The company’s approach to strategic content and branding stems from the art of careful curation and long-term planning. The key is to identify assets that can live in a global, multi-platform 360 universe - from series, theatrical, live-stage, publishing, gaming, podcasts, immersive experiences, to E-Sports and beyond, with music/merchandising/licensing components built-in.

From the moment the commitment is made to invest time and money, the goal is to be efficient, fast and tactical; to develop holistic umbrella brands that can sustain for generations to come; and to maximize revenue potential by building out from individual assets. Identifying the right portfolio assets requires a customized Litmus Test that reflects each client’s ethos, culture, and market resonance. The Litmus Test is a risk-mitigator designed to combat typical market vagaries (we’ll know it when we see it/wait and see/abundance of caution) and significant financial constriction. It is an essential tool because it helps to distinguish worthwhile investment with a secure ROI, from a one- off/flyer that “might work if the stars align.”

This is why Tuatara Media is different: We formulate the Litmus Test. We have the track-record, depth of relationships and quantifiable experience to identify the assets and design the build-out. We build the brand from the brand. This is how we can help. And we do whatever it takes.

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Barbara Wall has been a featured speaker and panelist at numerous US and international television conferences, including the Sydney-based ASTRA Program, Moscow’s annual CTC Russian and Eastern Block Television forum, the Media X-Change television conferences, and the USC Peter Stark Graduate Program.

Born and raised in New York, Barbara hopes to one day produce a Broadway musical, returning to her family’s roots in theater, where her father was a life-time member of the Shubert Organization and her mother was a dancer in the original productions of Guys and Dolls, Oklahoma and South Pacific.

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