Rachel Brenner serves as the Vice President of Development for Warner Bros. Discovery at Investigation Discovery. In this role, Brenner is primarily charged with creating and conceptualizing series, specials, stunts, and other programming initiatives. Brenner also supports TBS and TNT with developing documentaries and specials.

Since joining ID in 2013, Brenner is responsible for network stalwarts like Signs of a Psychopath, Murder Under the Friday Night Lights, and Murder in the Heartland, and has reinvigorated one of ID’s top series, Evil Lives Here by developing The Killer Speaks and Raising a Killer. She also worked to revitalize one of ID’s most popular, long-standing talents Joe Kenda and developed Homicide Hunter: American Detective with Lt. Joe Kenda, expanding the content by highlighting other officers across the country who answered the call.

With a keen eye for identifying exceptional talent with distinctive voices, Brenner has been instrumental in the development of the Holly Madison-led series The Playboy Murders, as well as upcoming series in development with Elizabeth Chambers and Jessica Biel. She recently developed successful projects with exclusive access such as the buzzy project Fallen Idols: Nick and Aaron Carter and entered a partnership with Blumhouse Television for the spine-tingling series Cabin in the Woods. Additionally, Brenner has helped spearhead and maintain partnerships with Academy-Award winner Octavia Spencer on the Emmy-nominated Lost Women and FEDS, both returning to ID for second seasons.

Brenner joined Discovery in 2012 as a member of the development team where she supervised the Military Channel’s acquisition and original content pipelines. In 2014, she supported the successful rebrand of Military Channel to American Heroes Channel, and in 2016, was named one of Cablefax’s Overachievers Under 30. In 2018, in addition to joining the Travel Channel team to develop new paranormal shows, Brenner standardized the greenlight process globally for Discovery Inc.

Prior to Discovery, Brenner was employed by the NBC Page Program in New York, where she worked in production as a PA for The Suze Orman Show and Sportsbiz: Game On, and talent management for CNBC. Brenner is a graduate of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University.