MEET THE TEAM
Marta Kauffman, Founder & President
Marta recently finished the Netflix comedy Grace and Frankie starring Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin, which she co-created alongside Howard J. Morris. She may be best known for creating NBC’s long-running hit Friends with David Crane. The iconic series ran for 10 seasons and earned 63 Emmy nominations, winning Outstanding Comedy Series in 2002. Reruns continue to delight with Friends: The Reunion being a ratings juggernaut. She and David Crane also created HBO’s Dream On recognized with CableAce Awards and additional Emmy nominations.
The Writers Guild of America, West awarded Kauffman and Crane the 2016 Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award for lifetime achievement in television writing. She also earned the 2016 Outstanding Television Writer award at the 23rd annual Austin Film Festival & Screenwriters Conference as well as the Kieser Humanitas Award. She recently received an Honorary Doctorate from Brandeis University.
Marta’s other credits include Georgia, Five, Veronica Closet, The Powers That Be, Call Me Crazy: A Five Film, and the documentary Seeing Allred. Marta has served on several Boards of Trustees including CalArts, Oakwood School, The Lung Cancer Foundation of America, Big Sunday, and IKAR. Marta has three children, two grandchildren, two dogs, and a toothless cat.
Robbie Tollin, Founder & Co-President
Robbie is an Emmy Award-winning television and film producer, and currently the producing partner of Marta Kauffman at Okay Goodnight. The company produced seven seasons of Netflix’s GRACE AND FRANKIE, starring Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin, and SEEING ALLRED, the feature length documentary about civil rights attorney Gloria Allred, which premiered at Sundance and streams on Netflix.
Okay Goodnight has several other TV and film projects in development for a variety of streamers and networks. In the film space, Robbie was the executive producer of the critically acclaimed motion picture The Zookeeper’s Wife, starring Jessica Chastain, based on the bestselling novel by author Diane Ackerman.
Robbie has been producing and developing television and film for the past 30 years for a variety of other networks, including MTV Networks, Nickelodeon, ABC, CBS, as well as working previously as VP of development for Nickelodeon.
Hannah KS Canter, SVP of Current & Development
Hannah oversees creative on a diverse slate of projects that runs the gamut from scripted to unscripted, shortform to longform, and comedy to drama. After joining Okay Goodnight in 2014 she developed GRACE AND FRANKIE, on which she became an Executive Producer, and produced SEEING ALLRED for Netflix. In addition to being a non-writing producer on many of Okay Goodnight’s projects, since 2018, Hannah and Marta have teamed up to write a number of pilots and a feature for studios and buyers all over town, one of them being the comedy DINKS for Amazon/FreeVee, on which she serves as Co-Creator and Co-Showrunner.
Before Okay Goodnight, Canter previously held posts at StudioCanal Paris, the Katahdin Foundation, and Tollin Productions/Mandalay Sports Media. She lives in Los Angeles with four very handsome roommates (one husband, two sons, and a dog).
Molly Arkin, VP of Current & Development
Molly Arkin is thrilled to be able to pursue good stories, well told. Molly joined the team in 2017 after working exclusively on dramas where cops (who are also moms!) had to hide their crying from coworkers, or where adult children (who were also cops!) discovered their parents’ spicy past. And had to hide their crying from coworkers. Molly is really proud of Okay Goodnight’s genre-and-format-agnostic slate and still finds herself in the honeymoon phase with her first love, television.
Sandra Haywood, Director of Development, Assistant to Marta Kauffman
Sandy started out wrangling call sheets as a Production Assistant and Assistant Production Coordinator before becoming Marta’s assistant and eventually the Director of Development at Okay Goodnight. When she's not busy developing the next big thing, you can find her at the park trying (and usually failing) to keep up with her dog, who clearly thinks he's the one in charge.
Ray Cheverton, Coordinator, Assistant to Robbie Tollin & Hannah KS Canter
Moving to the big avocado, or Los Angeles as those with less whimsy call it, Ray’s first internship was with Okay Goodnight. Joining during the 2023 WGA Strike, Ray stood tall at the picket-lines with the team. When back to business, Ray worked as a Production Assistant on DINKS. Since then, Ray interned at FX Networks and 20th Television Studios before returning to Okay Goodnight, and not only because their commute is wayyy shorter. Ray feels lucky to be surrounded by a group of talented women focused on telling good stories.