Women Behind the Scenes Spotlight: Pam Veasey

Today’s Women Behind the Scenes spotlight is shone on Executive Producer, Director and Writer Pam Veasey.

Pam was born in Texas, but grew up in Pullman, Washington. She graduated from the University of Southern California with degrees in Journalism and Political Science. She worked as a receptionist behind-the-scenes on the sitcom Gimme a Break!. After she submitted a spec script to the show’s producers, she was hired as a writer on the show, making that her first big break in the industry.

In 1990, Pam became a writer on the sketch comedy In Living Color later becoming the head writer, a position she held until the show ended in 1994. She also served as a writing supervisor, co-producer and executive producer on the show as well during that time.

Over the next few years, she worked as a consulting producer and writer on Can’t Hurry Love, a producer on Matt Waters and a creative consultant on Nash Bridges. She served as an executive producer and writer on the comedy Between Brothers and as a consulting producer on The Gregory Hines Show. She also worked as a producer and writer on Martial Law in the late 90’s and was a producer on the comedy-drama Get Real.

At the turn of the century, she worked for the cable series Strong Medicine and then she moved over to the crime drama The District from 2000 to 2004 where she worked as a writer, supervising producer, co-executive producer and eventually as an executive producer.

It was in 2004 that she started working on CSI: NY, holding the positions of writer, director, co-executive producer and executive producer from 2004 through 2013. It was also during that time that she worked as an executive producer and writer on the short-lived CW series Ringer. Most recently, she has joined the upcoming new CW drama The Tomorrow People that will debut this October.

Pam was married to Marvin Williams, an assistant football coach at Pomona Pitzer College and her two sons Mason and Avery are also athletes.