Twelve Senior People · Every Department Head Attached

Team & Leadership

A hands-on producing team spanning development, line production, unit production management, locations, crew, and cinematography, built to take projects from page to screen with a small, senior team rather than a large overhead.

Senior Executives

Creator & Executive Producer

Wendell Harris

Creator of MR. WENDELL and founder of the company. The series draws on his own story; he leads the show's creative direction as creator and showrunner-level executive producer.

Executive Producer

Loretha Jones

A producer whose credits span more than three decades of American film and television, including The Five Heartbeats, School Daze, The Meteor Man, B.A.P.S, and The Fighting Temptations on the feature side, series work from The Parent 'Hood to CBS's The Equalizer, and Carmen: A Hip Hopera. A defining producing voice in Black American film and television comedy and drama since the late 1980s.

Director & Creative Executive Producer

Jonathan Harris

Directs the series and carries creative executive oversight on tone, casting, and the show's visual language, after two decades running comedy sets: assistant director on Curb Your Enthusiasm (23 episodes), Workaholics (39 episodes), Key & Peele, Kenan, I Think You Should Leave, and A Black Lady Sketch Show, with earlier production credits on Higher Learning and The Meteor Man. That is the exact on-set language of an improvisational ensemble half-hour.

Co-Executive

Charlie Jordan-Brookins

Led original programming at BET Networks as Senior Vice President, overseeing scripted, unscripted, and movie content including the relaunch of The Game, Being Mary Jane, Sunday Best, Let's Stay Together, and the Critics' Choice–nominated miniseries The Book of Negroes. Earlier career with Robert Townsend's Townsend Television; directing credits include the television movie Something to Sing About and the feature Magdalena.

Strategic Development Partners

Loretha Jones and Charlie Jordan-Brookins serve as Strategic Development Partners: a collaborative relationship in which they shape the development slate and its path to market alongside the creator, rather than simply appearing as names on a roster. For a partner or financier, the practical meaning is simple: the company's development decisions are made with senior, verifiable industry experience in the room.

The Producing Team

Producer

Matthew Conners

Carries the production supervision function across the season, on a career spent almost entirely in the half-hour format: producer on The Exes (64 episodes) and Still the King, associate producer on Hot in Cleveland, production management on Vida and Sorry for Your Loss, and recent producing credits on Country Comfort, Black Cake, and Lopez vs. Lopez.

Co-Producer

Erinn Bell

Development and creative packaging through financing, plus production supervision during the season, brought from a working career on network comedy sets: digital imaging technician (2021 to present) on The Conners (106 episodes), Lopez vs. Lopez, Poppa's House, and Shifting Gears, with camera department credits on The Ranch (60 episodes), Side Hustle, Punky Brewster, and iCarly. Producer of the short film Going Black, and founder of The Bell Movement.

Director of Photography & Producer

Joseph Cicio

The show's cinematographer, on set every shoot day of every episode, and a producer on the project.

Line Producer

Scott Sudduth

Runs the budget and the schedule full time across prep, shoot, and wrap.

Director & Producer

Keith Ward

Directs and produces on the series.

Associate Producer, Equipment & Assigned Crew

Torin Harris

Associate producer with a working position in the camera department; carries crew staffing and equipment logistics through development.

Unit Production Manager & Producer

Carlyn Couch

Locations, permitting, and location logistics, plus coordination of assigned staff, backed by thirty location-management credits across Los Angeles film and television, including Better Things, Kevin Hart: What the Fit, Biker Boyz, Foster Boy, and Middle of Nowhere. Exactly the experience a single-location Hancock Park show depends on.

Associate Producer, Liaison to Creator

Larry Watson

Runs the production unit day to day through the season.

Corporate Structure

The corporate entity behind the Sir Rah Entertainment brand is Sirrah Entertainment Group. Its corporate officer positions are in active discussion and are deliberately not published until settled: publishing a deliberate placeholder is cleaner than publishing a guess. Production roles on MR. WENDELL are settled and unaffected.