ABOUT US
From the award-winning team that produces America’s most beloved competition food shows, The Great Soul Food Cook Off, Money Hungry, Chopped, Chopped Sweets, Chopped 420, Chopped Next Gen, Eye Candy, and Dishmantled comes Good Egg Entertainment, an unscripted production company anchored in innovative and quality programming. The New York-based group is known for creating fresh, energetic and positive content for all ages.
Focused on formats that reach an international audience, Good Egg is proud to introduce tasting competition, Money Hungry, for Food Network as well as Dishmantled, for Roku and The Great Soul Food Cook Off for OWN. With over 900 episodes of Chopped under its belt, the Good Egg team has proven their commitment to making long-lasting premium television.
The Good Egg team members have built their careers on seminal series, including Queer Eye, Skin Wars, Hellevator, The Newlywed Game and Legends of The Hidden Temple.
Entertainment that feeds the heart.
LINDA LEA
CEO
As the Creator and Executive Producer of Food Network’s Chopped, which recently wrapped it's 60th season, Food Network's Money Hungry and Roku's Dishmantled, Linda Lea is one of the most respected producers in reality TV.
Before Chopped, she was the Executive Producer of Queer Eye, the ground-breaking series for Bravo. She resides in NYC, Maine and Miami with photographer Jill Peters, and their three pets, Millie, Norman and Bella.
MEET OUR TEAM
AMY STANFORD
VP of Production & Development
Amy spearheads the day-to-day operations at Good Egg while showrunning Chopped, Chopped Sweets, Money Hungry and Roku hit, Dishmantled. Most recently she was the Executive Producer of groundbreaking culinary competition, The Great Soul Food Cook-Off for OWN and Discovery+. Over more than a decade Amy has created content for a variety of networks including, Roku, Food Network, HGTV, Lifetime, Travel Channel, GSN, Spike TV, Sundance Channel, Bravo, Destination America, and TLC. She also spent time as a senior producer for Conde Nast Entertainment, overseeing and creating multiple digital series for Bon Appetit.
TAMAR KUZNICK
VP of Production
Tamar Kuznick has joined the Good Egg Entertainment team with over 20 years of experience in studio and field television production. She was previously the VP of Production at Optomen Productions where she ran and acted as the Executive in Charge of Production for numerous series for Food Network (including their flagship series “Worst Cooks in America”), Travel Channel, National Geographic and Bravo.
JENN FREEMAN
SVP of Development
Jenn is passionate about developing content and has a proven track record of success across a broad spectrum of unscripted genres, having created, developed, and overseen hundreds of hours of programming. Some companies she’s creatively consulted at are Food Network, E! Entertainment, Time Inc., MGM, and Corona Studios (AB InBev). In addition, Jenn spearheaded development at Fox Television Studios and Hearst Entertainment. She also was the head of development at GSN during four of its most-watched years, with breakout series launches including Skin Wars, Hellevator, Idiotest and Baggage.
LUCIE POTTECHER
Development Coordinator
Lucie Pottecher is a French American director and TV Producer. She has published content with the BBC and directed commercial content for Mad Studios. She is an avid advocate for letting curiosity take charge and devoted to pushing the limits of new media. She brings loads of energy to our Good Egg development team for new innovative ideas to help us develop the next big hit.
JESSIE MARTIN
Executive Assistant
Jessie joined Good Egg in 2023 as Executive Assistant to Linda Lea and the team. She was born and Raised in Los Angeles and took a ‘southern detour’ to the University of Alabama where she studied Film and Creative Media. Before becoming a Good Egg, Jessie was the Story Logger on Food Network's Chopped S54-56 and Production Assistant on Netflix’s Next in Fashion S2 and The Watcher.
