Erin Wehrenberg

Erin Wehrenberg is senior vice president, Network Comedy, ABC Entertainment. In this role, she leads the comedy series development team and oversees the department’s day-to-day operations, including creatively supervising production of new comedy series for ABC. She reports to Karey Burke, president, ABC Entertainment.

Prior to this role, since 2009, Wehrenberg was senior vice president and head of Comedy Development at Warner Bros. Television, where she oversaw the development of ABC’s “Splitting Up Together” and “Suburgatory”; plus “Trial & Error,” “Two Broke Girls,” the reboot of “Murphy Brown”; the upcoming “Shrill,” starring Aidy Bryant; as well as the upcoming “AJ and the Queen,” starring RuPaul Charles. Prior to that, Wehrenberg was head of Comedy Development and Current Programming at Universal Media Studios.

Wehrenberg began her career at NBC, where she spent more than a decade rising through the executive ranks, from manager to executive vice president, Current Series, for nearly four years. During her tenure there, she supervised creative aspects of several celebrated series, including “Friends,” “Freaks and Geeks,” “Friday Night Lights,” “The Office” and “30 Rock.”

She earned a Bachelor of Arts in sociology from UCLA and serves on the board of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.