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Jake Rogal is an Emmy Award winning documentary producer and director. His work includes the Netflix/ESPN documentary series The Last Dance (2020), the HBO docuseries Murder in Boston (2023), the HBO documentary Andre the Giant (2018), the Netflix docuseries Countdown: Inspiration4 Mission to Space (2021), the Showtime docuseries The Circus: Inside the Greatest Political Show on Earth (2016) and the A&E documentary Biography: Stone Cold Steve Austin (2021). Prior to joining W+P and Little Room Films, Jake spent five years producing documentary films and series at HBO with a primary focus on the innovative 24/7 franchise. He is from Pittsburgh.

Marie Margolius is a producer and director at Words + Pictures. Prior to W+P, she worked at ESPN across a range of strategic and creative content initiatives and was named to the Sports Business Journal’s New Voices Under 30 list in 2019. At Words + Pictures, she has directed and produced a series of docs and docuseries including Under Pressure (Netflix), NWSL: For the Win (Amazon Prime), and NWSL: The Final Third (ESPN, Disney+), and the documentary short film Ayenda (MSNBC), which won the Best Director award at the 2023 DOC NYC film festival. Currently, she leads W+P’s production of feature content for the upcoming 2027 FIFA Women’s World Cup broadcast on Netflix.