{"id":625976,"date":"2024-06-29T02:28:05","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T23:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/stephanie-leifer-former-abc-signature-executive-dies-at-56\/"},"modified":"2024-06-29T02:28:05","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T23:28:05","slug":"stephanie-leifer-former-abc-signature-executive-dies-at-56","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/stephanie-leifer-former-abc-signature-executive-dies-at-56\/","title":{"rendered":"#Stephanie Leifer, Former ABC Signature Executive, Dies at 56"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n Stephanie Leifer, a long-time executive at ABC and studio ABC Signature, has died. She was 56.<\/p>\n

\n Leifer died of cancer on Thursday. She spent a combined 28 years at ABC Signature (and its forerunner, ABC Studios) and the ABC network, beginning at ABC in 1994 as an assistant in the network\u2019s TV movie department.<\/p>\n

\n \u201cStephanie was a beloved member of the\u00a0Disney Entertainment Television\u00a0family for\u00a0nearly\u00a0three decades, and our hearts are broken by the devastating news<\/a> of her passing,\u201d Disney Entertainment Television said in a statement. \u201cShe was a\u00a0highly admired\u00a0executive, whose creative impact was only matched by the relationships she nurtured both within the company and across the industry. Our sincerest condolences go out to her family, especially her husband and our colleague, Jonathan, and their two beautiful children, Amelia and Noah.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n After joining ABC, Leifer through the ranks, holding positions in the current programming, drama and comedy departments at ABC and serving as senior vp comedy development from 2002-06. She then moved to ABC Studios, where she became head of current programming \u2014\u00a0overseeing shows including Grey\u2019s Anatomy, Lost, Desperate Housewives, Castle<\/em> and many others \u2014\u00a0in 2010. She held that position until departing the studio, which was renamed ABC Signature following the Disney-20th Century Fox merger, in 2022.<\/p>\n

\n Prior to joining ABC, Leifer worked at public television station WGBH in Boston and at Writers and Artists Agency in Los Angeles. <\/p>\n

\n A private funeral is planned, with a celebration of life to come in the near future. Donations in Leifer\u2019s memory can be made to CASA of Los Angeles<\/a>, where she was a court app<\/a>ointed special advocate for foster children.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Stephanie Leifer, a long-time executive at ABC and studio ABC Signature, has died. She was 56. Leifer died of cancer on Thursday. She spent a combined 28 years at ABC Signature (and its forerunner, ABC Studios) and the ABC network, beginning at ABC in 1994 as an assistant in the network\u2019s TV movie department. \u201cStephanie…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":625977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Stephanie-Leifer-Obit-Template-Headshot-Publicity-H-2024.jpg?w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[5200],"class_list":["post-625976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-mediaa","tag-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}