03Case StudyRole · Chief of Staff to Henry Winkler, Fair Dinkum ProductionsSpring 2022 - 2024

HBO's Barry

TL;DR

Ran messaging and positioning for HBO's Barry (10 Emmy wins, 54 nominations) and the NYT bestselling memoir Being Henry, across a 3M+ follower audience.

Award-winning entertainment GTM at scale

10
Emmy wins · 54 nominations
What I Noticed

Audiences buy the person's story before the product. Positioning a principal is really positioning a brand, and the best campaigns make both feel irresistible.

Readers kept choosing it. 11 straight weeks on the list is an audience voting with their wallets every single Sunday.
What I Did

Enabled award-winning go-to-market for HBO’s Barry (10 Emmy wins, 54 nominations) and the NYT bestselling memoir Being Henry: The Fonz...And Beyond.

Led messaging and positioning frameworks for every multimillion-dollar brand partnership, primetime network appearance, and social account, ghostwriting content in Henry Winkler’s voice across 3M+ followers.

Project managed live fan experiences and brand activations across 15+ regional markets as the single point of contact for Studio, Marketing, Finance, and Legal, while managing an $8M+ annual budget and resourcing for 40+ staff and vendors.

How It Came Together

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Press moment from the Being Henry launch. I led the GTM plan behind the media tour, reconciling the memoir's messaging with the positioning strategy for HBO's Barry Season 4 so both campaigns reinforced one joyful narrative.
HBO's Barry Season 4 Emmy campaign. I crafted the messaging and positioning strategy, reconciling the show's final season narrative with the concurrent launch of Being Henry.

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What Happened
10 Emmys

Awards won for HBO's Barry, across 54 nominations.

11 weeks

On the NYT Bestseller List for Being Henry.

3M+

Followers reached through owned social and press channels.

What I'd Tackle Next

Layer first-party audience data on top of platform analytics to attribute which channels actually converted.