This week’s layoffs at Netflix, which resulted in the elimination of 1,000 jobs, or about 6% of its workforce, also hit the streamer’s unscripted TV division.
Deadline understands that a number of executives on its non-scripted casting and development teams were affected by the cuts.
They include Amy Cohen, Rich Leist and Annie Roberts.
Cohen, who has been with the company for nearly 10 years, was director of nonfiction series. She joined the streamer in 2017, after spending more than a decade at Fox, where she worked under Mike Darnell, who recently struck an overall deal with Netflix.
Leist, who has been with the company for more than five years, was director of unscripted casting, having joined All3Media America in 2021. Alongside Brittany Grooms and Cesar Rocha, he was part of the team that launched Netflix’s first in-house casting department in 2021.
Roberts was also an unscripted casting manager. She joined the streamer in 2021 from NBCUniversal, after working for Peacock, USA Network, E!, Oxygen and Bravo.
The cuts also affected a number of executives across its awards, product, technology and human resources team, as well as television and film scripts.
On Wednesday, Deadline revealed that Lisa Lang McMullen, James Oh, Andrew McQuinn and Carolina Garcia, who were all part of Netflix’s scripted division, had been let go alongside a number of managers, including Dan Evans, Jason Pan and Aaron Davidson.
On the film side, Doug Belgrad, who was vice president of film and head of cinema, Dan Lin’s first hire after replacing Scott Stuber, Sheroum Kim, who was director of independent films, and director of feature films Sebastian Hernandez were also affected by the layoffs.
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