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Carey Nelson Burch, Founder and President of My Own Shingle in Nashville, TN, works as a Consultant, Manager, and Producer for numerous clients with talents in Writing, Directing, Producing, Digital Content Creation, and On-Air Talent. Her projects span Feature Films, Scripted and Reality Television, Literary Properties, certified Snapchat lenses, and Augmented and Virtual Reality.
Carey began her career at Bob Banner's Paradigm Entertainment in Los Angeles, then became an assistant at Lorimar TV, Warner Brothers TV, and later NBC, where she was promoted to Manager of Movies and Miniseries. In 1997, she joined The William Morris Agency as a Packaging Agent, selling over 40 Movies of the Week. Her most notable achievement there was producing the TNT film Door to Door: The Bill Porter Story, starring William H. Macy, which won six Emmy Awards along with the Humanitas, WGA, SAG, and Peabody Awards.
In 2000, Carey moved to William Morris's Nashville office as the city's sole TV/Film agent, serving Feature and TV producers as well as country artists. During this period, she collaborated with CMT, packaging shows like Gurin Company's SINGING BEE, Fremantle Media's CAN YOU DUET, HULK HOGAN'S CELEBRITY WRESTLING, Bishoff-Hervey's PBR's POSSE, HUNTING TED NUGENT, NEIGHBORHOOD INTERVENTION, GONE COUNTRY, and Horizon Entertainment's EMANCIPATED. She also secured Clint Black's role on NBC's CELEBRITY APPRENTICE 2, Blake Shelton's participation on CLASH OF THE CHOIRS, and spots for Chuck Wicks and Sara Evans on ABC's DANCING WITH THE STARS.
After twelve years, Carey launched her own company, My Own Shingle. In partnership with Mitchell Galin and Odyssey Networks, she Executive Produced THE SHUNNING for Hallmark. She served as Co-Executive Producer on REEL LOVE, an E1 film starring LeAnn Rimes and Burt Reynolds, and worked on the CMT reality series RAIDERS OF ROCK with Taillight TV. Carey also partnered with Provident Films to represent their titles for television and, alongside Sharlene Martin of Martin Literary Management, secured Film and TV deals for several Non-Fiction and True Crime authors.
In 2015, Carey joined TackleBox Films as an Executive Producer of Music Videos and Documentaries, expanding into Reality and Scripted content. She produced Kaleo's video "No Good," the title track for Mick Jagger and Martin Scorsese's HBO series VINYL. Carey Executive Produced videos for artists such as Kenny Chesney, Luke Bryan, Jason Aldean, Florida Georgia Line, Easton Corbin, Eli Young Band, Rascal Flatts, and Dan + Shay, and produced the AT&T/Opry music franchise.
She later became President of Hideout Pictures, a division of Average Joes Entertainment, which produced CMT's Still the King starring Joey Lauren Adams and Billy Ray Cyrus. While there, Carey Executive Produced the independent film BEAUTY MARK, Chad Daniels' stand-up special DAD DANIELS, the eight-part series THE PROPERTY, and the single-camera comedy JESSUP before returning full-time to My Own Shingle.
Currently, Carey consults for Big Branch Productions, Big Banzai, Made In Network, Right Brain Left Brain Productions, RocketSlide Films, Camp Digital Productions, documentarian Windy Borman, and Evan Farmer's THE BUILDING BARN. She has partnered with Turner Publishing and their imprint Keylight Books to represent their catalog for TV and Film, securing twelve sales in 2019 and 2020 with clients including Josh Berman, Sony Studios, Kay Cannon, Sysiphus (Jared Leto), Grammnet (Kelsey Grammer), Echo Lake, and Engage. She is attached as Executive Producer to several projects and recently sold two seasons of Phil Vassar's SONGS FROM THE CELLAR to the Opry's new network Circle.
Throughout her distinguished career, Carey has served on numerous boards, including the Governor's Board for the Tennessee Film, Entertainment and Music Commission, the Nashville Film Festival—where she was Vice President for two years—the Nashville Screenwriters Conference, and Leadership Music. She currently sits on the Boards of the Nashville Film Festival, Nashville's Film-Com, and the Belmont Advisory Board for Entertainment and Film.
