MEET THE PRODUCERS

While students at the prestigious Spelman College, Natashia & Shelby met while working for the school's newspaper (The Spelman Spotlight). That collaboration planted the seed for a future partnership. Years later, the ladies reunited while both working in Hollywood. Their shared passion and vision caused them to fuse their talents to create V.I.P.s.



NATASHIA MCGOUGH
Creator & Executive Producer

Natashia McGough is a working writer and editor in all facets of the entertainment and literary industry. Natashia's writing credentials were created during the latter part of her grammar school career. Natashia started off as a staff writer for her elementary school's newspaper "The News." She later wrote for the creative publications of her high school's advanced English classes. In college, she had internships with local newspapers and magazines in Houston, TX., Atlanta, GA., and London, England, as well as being the campus and local editor for her college's newspaper, The Spelman Spotlight. Natashia has written several feature screenplays and two TV spec scripts.

She has produced and written her own short films, which have received great recognition as the Organ Mountain Rio Grande film festival's Governor's Hall of Fame winner, Audience Choice Award Winner at the Holly Shorts Film Festival, and Myrtle Beach International film festival's top seven finalist. She has been an apprentice to several professional writers of the industry, as well as worked as an Assistant on several TV shows; such as a TV Series, Night Stalker, produced by ABC/ Touchstone Television, a one hour comedy, The Underground, produced by Showtime and Damon Wayans Productions, and an animated TV series, The Goode Family, produced by ABC Television Network. She has also edited a published self help book by saavy businessman Mike Roberts Sr. and has performed professional ghost-writing for a literary publishing company, Arborbooks. She has ghost-written several authors’ books. She has also written comic strips for local comic magazine Cee Somefun in Atlanta, GA, as well as written a comic book, God Drug, published by Eigomanga Anime Multimedia Company and Devil's Due. She has written, directed, and produced a well received play Shadow Faces, which opened at the Space Theatre in Hollywood, CA on June 16, 2006. She is a native of Houston, Tx, but currently resides in Los Angeles, CA.

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SHELBY R. LARKIN
Co-Executive Producer

Shelby Renee Larkin is an accomplished TV/Film producer and entrepreneur. Her passion for entertainment and media was ignited through an internships her senior year of high school at Nashville's CBS affiliate, WTVF-News Channel 5. From there, Shelby went on to attend Spelman College in Atlanta. She graduated in 2003 with a Bachelors degree in Economics. During her college years Shelby completed numerous internships with prominent media & entertainment companies including So So Def Recordings, Burson-Marstellar PR, CNN, ABC News as well as stints with major corporations like Andersen Consulting & Goldman Sachs.

Upon graduation, Shelby relocated to Harlem, NY and continued her work with ABC News as well as Real Simple Magazine & the Arena Football League. After being accepted to the prestigious Peter Stark Producing Program at the University of Southern California Cinema-TV school, Shelby set her sights on Hollywood. In Los Angeles, Shelby made a name for herself as a TV producer having worked for entities including Paramount Domestic Television, Warner Brothers/Telepictures, The Dr. Phil Show, Style Network, BET, Endemol USA, Firestone Productions and others.

As an entrepreneur Shelby has led numerous publicity campaigns for a range of events including awards shows and red-carpet events. Additionally, Shelby's love for fashion led to her creation of a women’s fashion line, Urban Heiress Apparel, which currently can be found on Etsy.com or on Shelby's blog, The Urban Heiress.