FRANCESCA ORSI |
Co-Head, Drama Series, HBO

Francesca Orsi is co-head, HBO Drama Series, for Home Box Office, responsible for developing and overseeing the production of original drama series. She was named to this position in June 2016.


Orsi currently oversees Game of Thones and The Leftovers along with the HBO miniseries Big Little Lies and the upcoming series Succession and Shibden Hall. Her recent projects include Terence Winter’s Emmy®-winning Boardwalk Empire, Emmy® and Golden Globe® nominated drama Big Love and the acclaimed comedy Getting On. In the past, she was involved with the Emmy® and Golden Globe®-winning dramas True Blood, In Treatment and Tell Me You Love Me.


Orsi joined HBO in 2003 as an executive assistant to the head of Drama. She was named a creative associative in 2005 and rose through the ranks from manager, HBO Entertainment (now HBO Programming) and later director, Development, HBO Entertainment in 2008 to vice president, HBO Entertainment, in 2011 and most recently senior vice president, HBO Programming in 2014.


Prior to HBO, she worked as an agent trainee at Paradigm, and the then William Morris Agency.


She earned a M.F.A. in Film & Teleplay Writing at the University of Southern California.