Marshall Lewy

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Marshall Lewy is the chief content officer of Wondery [1] and Amazon Music. [2] As such, he serves as a non-writing executive producer on a number of Wondery's podcasts. [3]

Previously, he was a partner at Adaptive Studios, a Hollywood company that acquired scripts that were tabled by larger studios and then attempted to produce them, with some success. [4]

Lewy was also the director of the 2012 film California Solo, [5] [6] which premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, and the 2007 film Blue State . [7]

Lewy graduated from Harvard College and received his MFA from Columbia University. [8]

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