LONG WALK STUDIOS
OUR TEAM
Gia Galligani
Gia’s experience as a creative, accomplished, and award-winning Executive Producer/Showrunner and Development Executive includes programming at ABC, NetFlix, CBS, MTV, Amazon, and more. Credits include Producer for The Bachelor (ABC), Executive Producer for The Lost City of Z (Travel Channel), Co-Executive Producer/Director for Million Dollar Beach House (Netflix), Executive Producer/Director for The Moment (USA Network), and Executive Producer for Make it Work (Amazon). Her latest project is a feature film with Viggo Mortensen titled The Dead Don't Hurt. Gia is multi-lingual and has successfully navigated challenging production environments in more than 25 different countries.
Mark Steilen
Writer, Director, and Executive Producer Mark Steilen has worked on some of the most commercially successful comedy films and television shows of our time. TV credits include writing and executive producing for Emmy- winning Shameless (Showtime), Will (TNT), Golden Globe-winning Mozart in the Jungle (Amazon), and Sarah Jessica Parker’s Divorce (HBO). Writer and second unit director work for the Farrelly Brothers include Something About Mary, Dumb and Dumber, Hall Pass, Stuck on You, and The Three Stooges. Mark’s most recent feature film was the Warner Brothers and Newline Films smash hit, “Tag,” starring Jeremy Renner and John Hamm. His current collaborations include co-creating the TV series “The Big One” with Seth McFarlane (“Family Guy”), producing Tim Daly’s “Dust to Malibu” and writing and directing the feature “Hot Girls with Bags of Cash,” starring Lucy Hall (“Pretty Little Liars”).
Kathleen Burns
Kathleen is a veteran television executive and entrepreneur who played a pivotal role in building two of the most successful production companies in the industry – Pilgrim Studios and Kinetic Content. With deep expertise in operations, production, finance and legal, she was instrumental in scaling both companies from early-stage startups to industry powerhouses behind iconic franchises such as Married at First Sight, Betty White’s Off Their Rockers, Ghost Hunters, The Ultimate Fighter and Dirty Jobs, ultimately contributing to their multi-million-dollar acquisitions.