Vivian Sorenson

Vivian Sorenson is Co-Executive Producer of Food Network's Chopped, Chopped Junior and After Hours. Vivian is one of the original architects of the hit series, which has had over 500 episodes. She has won the James Beard Media Award, & has been nominated for 3 Critic's Choice Awards, in addition to winning the Real Screen Award for Best Competition Reality Series. She won a Telly Award for a web series she executive produced called Super Chef Kids, and multiple awards for her film, The Silent Love of the Fish. Vivian has also worked on a range of seminal television series; Big Ideas for a Small Planet for Sundance, a show focusing on environmental innovations, Conversations for Oxygen (post 9/11 conversations with women in politics and media including Hillary Clinton) and Operation Homecoming for TLC, (a series that explored first hand accounts of American servicemen and women returning home for Iraq and Afghanistan). She also Directed Wife Swap for ABC and What Not to Wear for TLC. She was a producer on The Bachelor, Season 7. And she was also the Co-Executive Producer of Savoring Harlem a documentary for Food Network about food and the history of Harlem. Her b/w 35mm short film Silent Love of the Fish is the winner of many film festival awards throughout America. Vivian was the owner and Executive Producer of a production company called YUM Ventures, where she and partner Kate Kenny featured shows about lifestyle and food. She developed multiple projects under this banner. Vivian's background is deeply rooted in her life prior to television, which was as a professional theater director and filmmaker. This is where she honed her instinct for pace, story-telling and a keen interest in the world around her. Her curiosity is insatiable and she is always working towards creating and/or disrupting paradigms of thought and opinion through media.