Kimberly Chessler-Itskowitch is Vice President, Unscripted Programming, of Lifetime.  Based in New York, she is responsible for developing and overseeing production of non-fiction projects for the network.    

Chessler-Itskowitch, who joined Lifetime in 2010, has been responsible for overseeing the development and production of a number of projects including Dance Moms and the upcoming Dance Moms Resurrection,Glam Masters,Preacher’s Daughters, Atlanta Plastic, BAPS and The Mother/Daughter Experiment to name a few. 

Prior to Lifetime, Chessler-Itskowitch was at Oxygen for ten years, during which she oversaw six seasons of Oxygen’s highest rated series The Bad Girls Club, as well as 150 hours of Snapped, its longest-running series, and the programs Dance Your Ass Off and Love Games: Bad Girls Need Love Too.

Originally from New Jersey, Chessler graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications.  She resides in New York with her husband and children.

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