Liz Gateley

Liz Gateley is an American television producer best known for creating the game-changing hit show Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County which launched on MTV in 2004. She also produced the 2020 Oscar-winning documentary Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone. Gateley recently founded Damsel Media, a content company focused on Gen Z women. The Roku Channel recently announced commissioning a "Laguna Beach" Cast Reunion Special from Damsel Media. Prior to that, she was Head of Original Podcasts at Spotify Studios, starting in 2019 when Spotify started its podcast studio to develop and produced its own Original Podcasts. Gateley launched the video podcast What Now? with Trevor Noah, oversaw scripted podcasts including the DC Comics partnership which included Batman Unburied and Harley Quinn and The Joker: Sound Mind and produced the Webby 2020 Podcast of the Year, Wind of Change. She also oversaw TV Adaptations at Spotify, adapting the Spotify Playlist RapCaviar into a television series for Hulu as well as The Horror of Dolores Roach for Amazon Prime. Prior to Spotify, Gateley was EVP Head of Programming at Lifetime Television. At Lifetime, Gateley developed You, the scripted series starring Penn Badgley, oversaw "UnReal" and Executive Produced "Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone " which won an Oscar in 2020 for Best Documentary Short. She was also a founding partner and co-owner, along with Tony DiSanto, of DiGa, a studio and production company hybrid. In what Gateley describes as her "dream job", she is responsible for leading the development of new weekly and daily series for the channel including both scripted and reality projects.