Jay Bushman is an Emmy-award winning writer, producer and transmedia storyteller with 15+ years creating, developing and managing stories across linear, interactive, and emerging formats. An expert in worldbuilding, IP development and format adaptation, equally at home with original content and legacy IP, intimate storyworlds and sprawling universes, blue-sky experiments and multi-million dollar projects. Jay has developed and produced content for major studios, networks, and tech companies, including Disney, Paramount, HBO, Google, and Microsoft
The Lizzie Bennet Diaries
Anne Rice Immortal Universe
Silent Hill: Ascension
13 Reasons Why
Novel Advice
Camp Calamity
10 Cloverfield Lane Alternate Reality Game
AVEnueS VR
Welcome To Sanditon
Arrival Alternate Reality Game
The Ghost Post
2nd Civil War VR
Dirty Work
Airship Dracula
Terminator Genisys: The YouTube Chronicles
Social Stories
Selected Awards and Honors
Emmy Awards – Winner: Outstanding Creative Achievement, Original Interactive Program, The Lizzie Bennet Diaries
Emmy Awards – Finalist: Outstanding Creative Achievement, Original Interactive Program, Welcome To Sanditon
Emmy Awards – Nominee: Outstanding Interactive Program Within A Scripted Series, 13 Reasons Why: Talk To The Reasons
Emmy Awards – Winner: Outstanding Creative Achievement, Original Interactive Program, Dirty Work
Producers Guild Awards – Nominee: Best Digital Series, The Lizzie Bennet Diaries
Themed Entertainment Awards – Winner: Outstanding Achievement in Connected Immersion, The Ghost Post
Sundance Institute – Fellow, New Frontier Story Lab
International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling – Keynote speaker