marblemedia promotes Kelsey Espensen to director, unscripted development

marblemedia, the Toronto-headquartered prodco behind the award-winning Netflix competition series Blown Away, has promoted Kelsey Espensen to director of unscripted development.

In her new role, Espensen (pictured) will be responsible for developing innovative new formats with global appeal, as part of marblemedia’s push to expand its offerings across all its production channels.

Espensen is one of Playback‘s 2022 10 to Watch recipients and joined marblemedia as a digital marketing coordinator in June 2017, following an internship tenure earlier that year. Taking on a succession of different roles with progressively larger responsibilities, Espensen created and developed the miniature-building competition series Best in Miniature (CBC, Discovery+ UK and Ireland), and ideated and developed the sand-sculpting competition Race Against the Tide (CBC). She also co-developed the forthcoming format Drink Masters, which is slated to debut on Netflix on Oct. 28.

“marblemedia is known for delivering premium content to partners around the globe, and it all starts with bold, original and innovative ideas. Kelsey Espensen has strong commercial instincts and [has] consistently ideated new ways to explore unique story worlds and fresh formats that haven’t yet been showcased on television,” marblemedia co-CEO and executive producer Matt Hornburg said in a release.

Marblemedia will be presenting its latest format, the chainsaw-carving competition A Cut Above, at this year’s MIPCOM.

This story originally appeared in Realscreen

For more information, contact:
Kelsey Aikman
Director of Marketing & Communications
Kaikman@marblemedia.com