Joel Zimmer

Joel Zimmer is the President of AGC Unwritten. He comes to the company with a wealth of experience over twenty years as both a content creator and media executive who created and sold his first show to Sony in 2003. Most recently Zimmer served as EVP of Development for the Magical Elves, where he shepherded a wide range of projects into development and or series for Disney+, Amazon, Netflix, ABC/Hulu, Peacock, National Geographic, the Discovery+ family of channels. Prior to the Elves, he ran an independent production banner, Snow Day Entertainment, which produced and developed projects for A&E Originals, FOX Studios, and Zee Americas. Previously, as Head of Current for 495 Productions he oversaw and executive produced over 500 hours of programming for a variety of cable and broadcast networks. During that time he was the show runner on four series that set network ratings records. Zimmer began his entertainment career as a full-time touring standup comedian, and co-created the wildly popular and patented, That Guy! card game, which was also the first project he packaged as a TV show.