Karen Wookey

Karen Wookey is an industry veteran, having produced feature films and over five hundred hours of series television, both scripted and unscripted. As Supervising Producer at Fireworks International, Wookey was responsible for three action-adventure series, Gene Rodenberry’s Andromeda, (5 seasons), Mutant X (4 seasons), and Adventure Inc. (2 seasons). In 2009, in partnership with Original Productions, she produced the first dramatic movie for Discovery Channel, Deadliest Sea, based on the tragic true story of a fishing vessel, which disappeared in a storm on the Bering Sea. As a Showrunner, Wookey has created and produced a number of shows for television including Crimes of Passion, a doc series exploring intimate partner homicide, Intervention Canada, and Vegas Rat Rods, for Discovery Channel and AETN. Since 2011 Karen has been partnered with Prospero Pictures’ Martin Katz and together they have produced the feature films, Man on the Train (Tribeca) starring Donald Sutherland and Larry Mullen Jr., as well as Our House (XYZ International), in partnership with Resolute Films & Entertainment’s Lee Kim, directed by Anthony Scott Burns and starring Thomas Mann and Nicola Peltz. They are also currently finishing Season 11 of History Channel’s long-running hit series, Ice Road Truckers.