Megan Reilly

With more than 25 years’ experience in broadcast and multimedia creation, Megan is Prospector’s Creative Principal & CFO, and heads Prospector’s Project Management and Production departments. Megan oversees finance, leads the business development of the company, coordinates with TV networks, supervises production and post-production, and produces, directs, writes and edits documentary videos.

An experienced journalist and skilled storyteller, Megan has produced, directed, and written for the National Geographic channel, the Discovery Channel, History Channel, PBS, Animal Planet, A&E and ABC News Productions among other networks. She was the creator and Executive Producer/Showrunner of Goldfathers (known as Gold Diggers in the UK), an original, 5-part, factual entertainment series for National Geographic Channel and National Geographic International.

As a veteran educational television writer and interviewer, Megan is the consummate collaborator for isolating and articulating exhibit themes and crafting meaningful and pithy messaging for branded content and multimedia experiences. In her role as a Prospector multimedia content creator, Megan researches and writes Prospector’s video scripts and interpretive panels.

Megan’s digital and multimedia installations have appeared in aquariums, childrens’ hospitals, museums and visitor centers around the country, including the Georgia Aquarium, Atlanta, GA; San Antonio Children’s Hospital (for the Garth Brooks Foundation, Teammates for Kids), San Antonio, TX; The National Museum of the Pacific War, Fredericksburg, TX; The Fort Monroe Visitors’ Center, Hampton, VA; Historic Jamestowne Island Visitors’ Center, Jamestown, VA; the Boston Science Museum, Boston, MA; and the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, IL.

Companies

• Executive Producer/Head of Development Prospector Productions, LLC (2009)
• Executive Producer/Owner Prospector Productions, LLC Prospector Productions, LLC (2009)
• Director of Project Management Boston Productions Inc. (2019 — 2020)
• Adjunct Professor Newbury College (2017 — 2018)
• Executive Producer/Director Sloan Pi-day 24-hour Challenge Fundraising Video MIT Sloan School of Management (2017 — 2017)
• Executive Producer MIT Sloan Action Learning Video MIT Sloan School of Management (2016 — 2016)
• Executive Producer/Director Global Giving Challenge Video Series MIT Sloan School of Management (2016 — 2016)
• Development Producer Prospector Productions, LLC (2015 — 2015)
• Producer/Director, "Rough Cut Woodworking with Tommy Mac," Season 4 WGBH TV (2013 — 2013)

Education

• Master of Science in Journalism Columbia University - Graduate School of Journalism (1993 — 1994)
• Bachelors Boston College
• New Canaan High School