Production biographies

18 September 2013

Michelle Ashford – Executive Producer

Michelle Ashford has written for the miniseries John Adams and The Pacific.  She recently adapted Undaunted Courage, the Stephen Ambrose account of the Lewis and Clark expedition.  She is currently working on A Rope and a Prayer, the story of NY Times journalist David Rohde's kidnapping in Afghanistan.   She has written numerous pilots, both network and cable, and her other series credits include Boomtown, LA Doctors and New York News.

 

Sarah Timberman – Executive Producer

Sarah Timberman and her Timberman/Beverly Productions partner, Carl Beverly, recently completed production on the first season of their upcoming Showtime series, Masters of Sex, starring Michael Sheen and Lizzy Caplan. Written by Michelle Ashford and directed by John Madden, Masters of Sex is based on Tom Maier's critically acclaimed biography of noted Sex researchers, William Masters and Virginia Johnson. Timberman/ Beverly are also currently in production on the fifth season of the award-winning F/X series, Justified (based on Elmore Leonard's Fire in the Hole), and the second seasons of their two series, Elementary and Unforgettable.  Timberman/Beverly also produced the critically- acclaimed NBC series, Kidnapped.

Prior to starting her own company, Timberman served as President, Universal Network Television. She oversaw all comedy, drama, long-form and reality programming for the company.  Series included: Law & Order; Law & Order: Criminal Intent; Law & Order: Special Victims Unit; Crime & Punishment; Just Shoot Me; American Dreams; The District; and The Agency. At Universal, Timberman was also instrumental in acquiring the rights to the British comedy series, The Office.

Timberman joined Universal from Columbia TriStar Television, where she served as Executive Vice President, Drama Development. Timberman was promoted to EVP after serving as Senior Vice President, Drama Development.  Some of the series she oversaw included Dawson’s Creek and Party of Five.

Prior to working in television, Timberman was an assistant editor at Random House in New York.

Timberman serves on the board of directors of the Hollywood Radio and Television Society as well as the board of directors of Death Penalty Focus, and is a member of the board of trustees of the I Have a Dream Foundation, Los Angeles.

Timberman grew up in Greenwich Village, New York, and is a graduate of Brown University, with a B.A. in History.  She is married to writer/producer Ed Redlich, and they have two children.

 

Judith Verno – Executive Producer

Executive Producer Judith Verno produced Lizzie Borden, starring Christina Ricci in the title role. Judith was also an Executive Producer on Anna Nicole, currently Lifetime's highest rated original movie of 2013. Prior to this she produced other successful and highly rated television projects such as Drew Peterson: Untouchable starring Rob Lowe, Who is Clark Rockefeller? starring Eric McCormack, James Patterson's Sundays at Tiffany's, The Craigslist Killer, and Natalee Holloway. Among other production and development projects, Judith is currently working on a limited series based on Robert Harris's bestselling novel Pompeii, a limited series based on Finding Chandra by Pulitzer-Prize winning journalists Scott Higham and Sari Horwitz, and a two hour movie of When Men Become Gods by bestselling author Stephen Singular.

 

Carl Beverly – Executive Producer

Carl Beverly runs Timberman/Beverly Productions with his producing partner, Sarah Timberman.  He is an executive producer of the award-winning cable series Justified, and current CBS dramas Elementary and Unforgettable. He also served as executive producer for A Gifted Man also for the Network. Additionally, the company is in production on Masters of Sex, which will air this fall on Showtime, and is based on Thomas Maier's critically acclaimed biography of William Masters and Virginia Johnson.

Prior to partnering with Timberman, Beverly started his career at Sony Pictures Entertainment and Columbia Tri-Star’s (CTTV) drama development department where he was part of the team that developed Dawson’s Creek. He later joined CTTV President Eric Tannenbaum at the newly formed Artists Television Group (ATG) where he helped place several series on the air, including The Street, The Webber Show and Fighting Fitzgeralds.

Following ATG, Beverly joined Timberman at Universal Television, eventually becoming head of the drama division where he developed and oversaw several series on the air including Michael Mann’s Robbery Homicide Division, for the Network, Elmore Leonard’s Karen Cisco, American Dreams and Mister Sterling.

Beverly grew up in Los Angeles and is a graduate from The University of Southern California with a B.S. in Business Administration and a Juris Doctorate in law, and is a member of the California State Bar.