Today, Variety, Hollywood’s leading provider of entertainment business news, today announced that Dayna Wolpa, Emmy award-winning producer and Managing Director, Programming and Distribution, has been promoted to VP Talent & Programming. In this role, Wolpa will manage talent and programming for such successful Variety franchises as Power of Women, Power of Young Hollywood, Hitmakers, plus many more.

She currently oversees all of the talent programming for Variety’s studio at the Sundance Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival. Wolpa, who has been with Variety for over ten years, has booked talent for numerous events including Women of Reality TV Dinner, 10 Directors to Watch & Creative Impact Awards, the Variety/Chanel Female Filmmakers Dinner, the Variety/Golden Globes Breakthrough Artists Awards, Business of Broadway, and the upcoming SXSW Variety Power of Comedy.

“Dayna Wolpa has a well-deserved reputation as someone who can problem solve and get things done,” said Dea Lawrence, Chief Operating and Marketing Officer of Variety. “She takes on challenges in a thoughtful, creative manner with a precise eye for detail, characteristics that make her an outstanding executive.”

For years she has been the Associate Producer of Emmy award-winning “Actors on Actors,” and this past December won a Daytime Emmy for producing “Power of Women: Changemakers” for A&E. Wolpa also curates the coveted Power of Women gift bag and oversees all Variety guest lists for their exclusive events.

"I am grateful to have spent the last ten years at Variety," said Wolpa. "I look forward to continuing to collaborate with the best team in the business and am excited to be a part of Variety's ongoing expansion."

She will report to Lawrence and will continue to be based out of the Los Angeles office.

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