Gaylyn Fraiche
- Producer
- Executive
Gaylyn Fraiche moved to Los Angeles three weeks after graduating with a film degree from The University of Texas at Austin. She landed her first job in her first week in Los Angeles at a busy television production company and worked in different capacities on 13 made-for-TV movies and three series. Her first experience in feature films was as Oscar-Winning Director Curtis Hanson's assistant on "The River Wild", starring Meryl Streep and Kevin Bacon. From there she worked as Oscar-Winning Director Kathryn Bigelow's assistant on "Strange Days". She then spent 8 and a half years working at Castle Rock Pictures in various capacities on such films as "The Green Mile", "Best in Show", "Miss Congeniality" and "Proof of Life" and left as Director of Development. She joined Producer Debra Martin Chase and became the Executive Vice President of Martin Chase Productions, overseeing its feature deal at Disney. Some of her producing credits include "Sparkle", "Just Wright", "Lemonade Mouth" and "Lovestruck: The Musical". As Vice President of Movies for MarVista Entertainment, she produced and/or oversaw movies for: Disney Channel, Nickelodeon, Lifetime, Hallmark Channels and Freeform. She was a VP of Film and Television for Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine but left in 2021 to produce independently. An experienced Executive who shepherds projects through development, production, post production and release, Gaylyn has worked on set on movies shot in India, New York, New Mexico, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Belize and many parts of Canada.