Leah L'esperance

Needing to keep the promotion alive all summer. We developed a Summer campaign created almost all in traditional stop motion to help  bridge the multiple premieres of our top shows.

Role: Sr. Design Director/Art Director

The Carbonaro Effect is an unscripted series in which Michael deceives, amazes and amuses an unsuspecting public. In each half-hour episode, Carbonaro performs baffling tricks on people in everyday situations, all caught on hidden camera. Whether the marks are alone or with friends, everyone is left stunned and delighted, even though they have no idea what they just experienced.

Working with Michael was always a fun challenge. He is dedicated to his craft and throughout the seasons the challenge was always to maintain the integrity of the show. The reactions are real and something Michael prides himself with. each season we had to find a  elevating both Michael's capabilities and his unsuspecting marks reactions.

Role: Art Director/Sr.Design Director

Andrea Savage ("Veep," "Episodes") created and stars in this half-hour scripted comedy as writer, wife and mom Andrea, whose outward confidence belies an inner immaturity and neuroses that manifests in unexpected ways. Alongside her more straitlaced husband, Mike, and their inquisitive daughter Amelia, Andrea does her best to navigate her life's oftentimes self-induced complications.

We wanted to maintain Andrea's integrity as a writer and came up with a clever campaign using typed out emails. We played with the sound design and animation of the text so it felt like someone was actually at the computer composing an email. 

Role: Sr. Design Director/Art Director

Each year truTV hosts the NCAA games on the network. This is truTV's chance to gain more viewership from people that don't necessarily watch truTV. The goal was to show the basketball fans that we are self deprecating and that this is a destination they want to revisit even after the games are long gone.

Role: Sr. Design Director/Art Director

While in the process of rebranding we created a bridge campaign for several shows. After completing the rebrand in March we wanted to create new IDs for the network that showcased are new look. These are a collection of Brand IDs for several of our popular shows.

Role: Sr. Design Director

Late night short form comedy show where the never-before-seen bits tackle a variety of topics, presented.

Created internally and not with a production partner we came up with the concept of a dinner where people congregate late night. Here we placed weird characters as well as making all the promotion for the show feel that is was in situation. We rented out a retro dinner to create the environment for this fun late night show.

Role: Sr. Design Director/Art Director

Guy Branum serves as host and master of ceremonies on the half-hour series, an uproarious combination of a game show sprinkled with talk-show elements.In each episode guests come to play, not plug, in various challenges on the only talk show that literally counts.Emmy Award-winning writer Karen Kilgariff and author and journalist Casey Schreiner serve as judges, who roast the contestants and award or deduct points from them based on criteria such as telling an anecdote, flirting with the host, name dropping, being underdressed, excessive agreement, and making the audience go "awwww."

Playing homage to the old school talk shows where celebs would come on and not be scripted, where the unsuspected was encouraged and where it was not all about plugging their new project we set out to execute the old but embrace the new. Working with Trollback we came up with a mid century modern approach to the graphics, contrasting the poppy colors with a more sophisticated animation style.

Role: Sr. Design Director

Everyday people get up close, personal and extremely uncomfortable with some of the biggest sports stars in the world!

Mixing sports with a prank show we wanted to make the packaging feel like we went all in on sports to increase our viewership with the sports community. With the show premiering during NCAA the strategy was to not alienate the audience but to make them feel that truTV was a network that welcomed sports fans, but just with a little twist.

Role: Sr. Design Director/Art Director

TV personality Kevin Pereira ("Attack of the Show") and comic Brooke Van Poppelen explore the world of "life hacks": procedures or actions that solve problems, simplify tasks or reduce frustrations.

The challenge was always to relay that this was a show about life hacks and not about construction of products. Each season we had fun experimenting with how to show that from a Wes Anderson inspired campaign to the Swiss army knife, this show always leaves a lot of room for fun.

Role: Sr. Design Director/Art Director

Funny Or Die's Billy on the Street with Billy Eichner is a pop culture game show that follows unfiltered and unapologetic comedian Billy Eichner as he hits the streets of New York City to test unsuspecting passersby.

With an already established brand Billy came to truTV from Fun y or Die. We wanted to maintain the street persona but elevate it in the first season, making everything feel larger than life. For the second season we wanted to add some of the grit of the street and Billy's character. With still wanting it to feel larger than life much like Billy's personality we switched perspectives and instead of looking up the viewer was now larger than life and getting a birds eye look into Billy's world.

Role: Sr. Design Director

This half-hour brain candy show hosted by author Matthew Latkiewicz and comedian Abbi Crutchfield. In each episode Matthew and Abbi tackle major topics like drinking, technology, sex, money, and friends.

Tasked with creating visuals that showed how it can be done one way but how if it's done better your whole world improves is how we approached the show open and ultimately the promotion of the show.

Role: Sr. Design Director/Art Director

Comic Amanda Seales hosts a fast-paced, pop-culture-laced series that counts down the do's and don'ts of topics like weddings, animal videos, sports, politicians and unintentionally funny inventions, infomercials and products.

Having multiple topics covered over the course of the season we were tasked with creating packaging that felt fun and contemporary and still generic enough that it would fit with the ever evolving list of episodes. 

Role: Sr. Design Director/Art Director

Adam Conover uses a not-quite-deadly combination of comedy, history and science to debunk widespread misconceptions about topics and ideas that are routinely taken for granted.

Over several seasons we introduced Adam to the truth audience only to discover that our fans have a penchant for witty smart comedy. Through full animated interrupters and live action we played off Adam's unique charm and character. In the last campaign we created our concept which was inspired by the 'They Live' title sequence.

Role: Sr.Design Director

This hidden-camera series follows four lifelong friends who take dares to an outrageous level. On the show, to find out who is best under pressure, the guys compete in awkward and outrageous hidden-camera hijinks. At the end of each episode, the loser must.

Started working on the show on Season 1 before it was called Impractical Jokers. Worked with an outside agency for the show package and then 2 seasons later revamped the looked to make it brighter and feel more contemporary. All promotion until S6 was derived from the show package look. As we began to enter a more Multiplatform arena we started creating Key Art that drove promotion of the show.

Role : Art Director/Sr. Design Director

This half-hour competition series features three comics in each episode battling in fast-paced challenges, with points awarded based on positive crowd reactions.

The packaging was inspired by late night comedy clubs, but with a contemporary street vibe to it. We played with the idea of spray paint while applying more of an underground treatment to it.

Role: Sr. Design Director/Art Director

In this new comedy series, actor and comedian Jon Glaser (Trainwreck, Parks and Recreation, Girls) sets out to make a docu-series about his greatest passion: gear. Ironically, it's this very obsession that continually threatens to derail the show, sending each episode spiraling off on deeply personal tangents. 

With much of Jon's style coming through his live action we wanted to create a tease spot that would not only excite the viewer but also give them insight into Jon's obsession with gear.

Role: Sr. Design Director

From the mischievous mind of comic/actor David Spade, "Fameless" combines pranks and sketches in a lighthearted way to see how far unsuspecting people will go for a moment of glory

This show was used more as a bridge from reality shows to comedy. In the first season the graphics were very dark and low fi. We wanted to elevate the graphics to better align with the quality of the programming that was appearing on the channel.

Role: Sr. Design Director/Art Director

Role:Sr. Design Director

Comics April Richardson and Chris Fairbanks host this half-hour series that applauds (wink, wink) how hard some people, places and things try to succeed despite ultimately failing.

Playing of the success of clip shows we wanted to create a retro vibe to be able to connect us to the nostalgia of watching these funny home videos.

Role: Sr. Design Director/Art Director

The Santa Claus who displays his or her best behavior in this ultimate Christmas competition rides away with a sleigh full of cash.

We created a fully animated show open based off creating 10 generic competitors in the show who are racing to the barn in order to be crowned the real Santa Clause.

Role: Sr. Design Director/Art Director

Teams are challenged to create performances that reimagine iconic moments in pop culture, the team that shows the most skill and creativity wins

Conceptual spot by which traveling through the first part of the logo we enter into different worlds which showcase the dancers as they compete to win. With the audience constantly in suspense as to what they are going to see next we wanted to create something that was both visually engaging as well as convey the grandeur of the show itself.

Logo Animation for Show Open

Role: Sr. Design Director

Role: Art Director