Kelly Garner

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About Kelly Garner

Founded in 2018 by CEO Kelly Garner and based in Los Angeles, TREEFORT MEDIA is an independent podcast company specializing in premium fiction and unscripted audio storytelling across genres. The company’s first original series Fatal Voyage: The Mysterious Death of Natalie Wood hit #1 on Apple Podcasts and garnered over 25 million downloads. The company’s creative partners include Audible, Wondery/Amazon Music, Disney Music, iHeartMedia, Paramount, Spotify, Universal Music Group and Village Roadshow Entertainment Group. Branded partners have included LA Times Studios, Focus Features, Coinbase, and Microsoft. Treefort’s scripted audio drama Moriarty, a twist on the Sherlock Holmes canon, has earned many award nominations – including Best Podcast of the Year – since its debut as an Audible Original in July 2022. Another Treefort scripted series for Audible, Killing Hollywood: The Cotton Club Murder, won the Webby for Best Scripted Fiction Podcast last year. Treefort/Wondery's popular unscripted weekly series Killer Psyche led to a daily spin-off Killer Psyche Daily, which launched exclusively on Amazon Music in November 2022. Treefort also partnered on the acclaimed investigative series Collapse: Disaster in Surfside, with the Pulitzer Prize winning reporters of the Miami Herald. Previous to founding Treefort, Garner was a TV producer and Vice President of Development & Current with posts at Pilgrim Studios, SYFY, Wilshire Studios / UCP at NBCUniversal. Garner is a graduate of Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and is based in Los Angeles, where Treefort is headquartered.