User:Itskaren

Karen Janee’ Lewellen was born in Vancouver Washington. Raised in the Pacific Northwest as a young adult Karen moved to Southern California where she escaped the rain and loves the weather of Southern California. When Karen Lewellen had a job with a paycheck she enjoyed a successful career in Risk Management as Client Service Manager where she worked with CFO’s and Controllers of Fortune 500 Companies and international accounts for Alliance. In a down turning market, Karen developed a 3 million book of business into over 35 million within 3 years.

In 1999, Karen Lewellen became a financial partner in Right Brain Media a Commercial Production Company based in Los Angeles, California. Karen joined Right Brain Media full time in June 2001 as the company Controller, where her responsibilities included overall financial and accounting functions, overseeing commercial productions, developing and updating production guidelines and procedures in accordance with market and union contact changes and trends, establishing and maintaining vendor relationships, maintaining DGA reporting and contributions and reviewing contacts. Responsible for production compliance with union regulations and company guidelines. With the development guidelines and procedures Karen created, resulted in no IATSE or Teamster audit findings for the years of 2003 through 2006.

In August 2007, using her production knowledge, sales experience and contacts established while at Right Brain Media, Karen opened It’s Karen! and began representing Visual Effects and Animation Artists. Her roster has now expanded to include Production Companies, Editorial, Visual Effects, Animation and Design.