JESSIE DICOVITSKY / 30
VP Original Programming,
Showtime
Dicovitsky went to Princeton to
study politics but set her sights
on Hollywood after taking a
creative writing class taught by
Toni Morrison. “She taught me
that when you get people emot-
ing and connecting to a human
story, that’s how you can make
the most change,” says the former
NBC page, who joined Showtime in
2012, starting out as David Nevins’
assistant. Over the past eight years,
her fingerprints have been all over
the cabler’s comedies (Shameless),
dramas (Billions) and docuseries
(The Circus) — championing female
voices along the way. Dicovitsky,
who lives in Studio City with her film
producer husband and their German
shephard-husky mix, Graham
Cracker, is currently tackling the
network’s long-gestating Halo
adaptation and the L Word reboot
(debuting Dec. 8).
THE PERSON I’D SWITCH JOBS WITH
FOR A DAY “Chris Harrison. I could
really shake up the storylines on
The Bachelor next season.”LINDSAY DONOHUE // 34
VP Limited Series, FX Networks
Donohue was in college at Brandeis
when she stumbled upon an article
about former ABC chief Steve
McPherson’s part in the success
of Grey’s Anatomy and Desperate
Housewives. “That was the first
time I learned that development
was a job,” she says. The New
Hampshire native scored an assis-
tant gig at Innovative Artists in New
York, where she worked in lit and
then talent representation for close
to two years before relocating to
L.A. in 2009. She soon landed at
FX on John Landgraf’s desk, and
eventually was promoted to a lim-
ited series exec in 2013. Since then,
she’s had a hand in such critically
acclaimed anthologies as Fargo
and American Crime Story: The
People v. O.J. Simpson. Next up: the
anticipated Cate Blanchett minise-
ries Mrs. America, and affair drama
A Teacher, starring Kate Mara and
Nick Robinson.
CHILDHOOD TV SERIES I WANT ONTAALL ENNTAnthony Ramos / 28
“I almost wanted to give
up because it was really
difficult auditioning,” says
Ramos of his early years
trying to break into act-
ing. “No one was in a rush
to give a barely 5-foot-9
Latino with freckles a lead
role.” But then the Brooklyn
native saw Lin-Manuel
Miranda’s 2008 Broadway
hit In the Heights. “It was
the first show I saw where
I was like, ‘Oh, I don’t only
relate to these characters,
I know them,’ ” he says.
He’s become a staple of the
Miranda-verse, as part of
the original cast of Hamilton
on Broadway. Then, after a
turn in A Star Is Born and
the release of his debut
album, The Good & the Bad,
he nabbed the lead in Jon M.
Chu’s film adaptation of In
the Heights, out June 2020.
PERSON I’M DYING TO WORK
WITH “Spielberg is the
GOAT. And I’ve always loved
John Legend.”
“I don’t remember the
last time I was that
tired,” says Anthony
Ramos of filming In the
Heights this summer.
“But at the same time
my heart was full.”