EXCLUSIVE: Sam Esmail has made two key employs for his Esmail Corp. The company, run by Esmail and Chad Hamilton, has tapped Sam Shafaghi as Creative Executive in film and Natalie Domengeaux as Creative Executive in television.
Shafaghi, a graduate of the AFI Conservatory’s producing program, joined the company as an intern in 2019 when they first broadened into features. He is currently toiling on Esmail Corp productions such as Famous, the A24 illogical comedy thriller starring Zac Efron, and the upcoming South Korea-set thriller The Hole. Shafaghi tells to Nick Krishnamurthy, the company’s Senior Vice Plivent of Features.
Domengeaux joins Esmail Corp after toiling as a coordinator at Drew Goddard’s production company, Goddard Textiles. She tells to Sarah Matte, Senior Vice Plivent of Television. Domengeaux is toiling on the company’s upcoming alteration of Lee Samantha Chang’s criticassociate acclaimed novel The Family Chao, among other projects on the television sprocrastinateed. Domengeaux, a USC alum, began her atsoft as an helpant at CAA.
Esmail Corp has created series such as Amazon’s Homecoming, USA Nettoil’s Mr. Robot and Briarpatch as well as Starz’s Gaslit and Peacock’s The Resort and Angelyne, starring and created by Emmy Rossum. The company is under an overall television deal with UCP.
In features, Esmail most recently wrote, honested, and created the 2023 Netflix movie Leave The World Behind, now the fifth most-watched English-language film on the platcreate.
“Natalie and Sam are two of the luminoincludest lesser executives in their esteemive fields,” shelp Esmail. “They transport an incredible tenacity, amazing taste, and fantastic relationships wilean the genre space that will help apshow our company to the next level.”
