Tom Ragazzo
Producer, Black-ish
Tom Ragazzo was born and raised in New York, just north of New York City. He attended Emerson College and graduated with a Bachelor's degree in TV/Video Production. His 18 year career in Hollywood started as a Production Assistant on the movie Along Came Polly and has since expanded to include many roles for many shows. He has done everything from PA, to Casting Associate, to Assistant Editor and Editor, to Post Production Supervisor, Associate Producer, Co-Producer and now Producer. He's been fortunate to work on many big name projects, including the entire series of NBC's Parks and Recreation, the pilot of Brooklyn 99, The Good Place, Showtime's United States of Tara, and now ABC's Black-ish, Grown-ish and Mixed-ish. Tom also Produced, Directed, Shot and Edited a behind the scenes web series about Parks and Rec's final season, which was ultimately nominated for a PrimeTime Emmy Award. Tom is currently a Producer on the -ish family of shows, where his primary duty is the head of Post Production for all three shows, with his role recently expanding to support the EPs/writers and production now as well.
6:45PM - 7:45PM
The Sitcom Gets Animated
In these Co-vid times, two sitcoms (One Day At A TIme, black-ish) chose the animation route in order to deliver powerful episodes about voting and the upcoming US Election. Join our panelists from Big Jump Entertainment, Smiley Guy as well as director Mathias Horager and Producer of black-ish, Tom Ragazzo as they talk about going the animated route and the future of animation in primetime.