Sara Rea

Head of Unscripted
Hello Sunshine

Sara Rea is an award-winning television producer and business leader with over 20 years of experience creating and producing unscripted television and documentary films. She has ten Emmy nominations, a GLAAD Award, and multiple PGA award nominations. She is currently the Head of Global Unscripted for Hello Sunshine, which acquired her company, SKR Productions, in 2020. At Hello Sunshine she oversees all areas of unscripted development and production, as well strategic planning and growth. In addition to a robust slate of premium series and documentaries across nearly all major platforms and networks, she has built innovative IP ownership models and developed strategic global partnerships for international sales and productions. She also opened Hello Sunshine UK in 2021.

Sara spent many years of her career as a successful unscripted showrunner including her prolific run as the Executive Producer of the iconic and award-winning Project Runway. Subsequently, Sara Rea created Making the Cut with Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn where she revolutionized the unscripted space by bringing t-commerce to the competition reality series on Amazon Prime. She partnered with ABC and Endemol to reboot Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, attaching Clea Shearer and Joanna Teplin of The Home Edit to host and reinvent the classic. She penned a deal with Formula One Academy, an all-female driving series, for an all-access docu-series which will air on Netflix. Some of her other credits include Apple TV’s My Kind of Country, Paramount's inspiring and heartwarming music documentary, Wynonna Judd: Between Hell & Hallelujah, Roku's unscripted romantic comedies, Meet Me in Paris and the sequel Meet Me in Rome; Roku’s Side Hustlers featuring Emma Grede and Ashley Graham; Amazon Sports’ docuseries Surf Girls Hawai’i and Amazon Prime’s new hit series, The Pasta Queen.