Dionne Harmon, who just won an Emmy in 2022 as co-executive producer of the Pepsi Super Bowl LVI Halftime Show, has been promoted to president of Jesse Collins Entertainment after 10 years with the company. She had served as executive vice president of the JCE since 2021.
The promotion, announced Wednesday by company founder and CEO Jesse Collins, gives Harmon oversight of all aspects of the company’s creative strategy and financial growth, the company said in a statement. She will report to Collins, the executive producer of all programming. He is an executive producer of the 2022 Grammy Awards and Super Bowl halftime show and produced the 2021 Oscars.
In an interview, Harmon told TheWrap that she joined Jesse Collins Entertainment when the company was starting out primarily as an award show producer. However, he said that he knew Collins wanted to turn JCE into a full-service production company that “wasn’t in a box. In the last 10 years it has been very important for us to try to establish ourselves not only in specials but also in television and unscripted movies,” he said.
In her years with JCE, Harmon, a Harvard graduate, served as the first black producer of the Emmy-nominated 2021 Pepsi Super Bowl halftime show with The Weeknd, taking home a statuette at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards. during Labor Day weekend. for Outstanding Variety Special (Live) for her role as co-executive producer of the Pepsi Super Bowl LVI Halftime Show presented by Dr. Dre and with Snoop Dogg, Mary J. Blige, Eminem, Kendrick Lamar and 50 Cent on NBC. The show’s production company credits include Jesse Collins Entertainment, Diversified Production Services (DPS), and Roc Nation.
Harmon’s other credits at JCE include serving as the first black executive producer of the 2021 American Music Awards and was a co-producer of the 2021 Oscars. In front of the camera, she appeared in the Showtime documentary “The Show,” about the build-up to from the 2021 Super Bowl halftime show during the pandemic, and has appeared in two episodes of the 2022 Peacock docuseries “Earnin’ it: The NFL’s Forward.” Progress” with Mary J. Blige, Condoleezza Rice, Lindsay Vonn, and others.
Other JCE productions include “Real Husbands of Hollywood”, “Cardi Tries”, the American Music Awards, BET Awards, Soul Train Awards and many others.