Lori Rothschild Ansaldi joined LMNO in 2011 and serves as Senior Vice President of Development & Corportate Communications. Her passion for finding outrageous characters and concepts has created an entirely new casting-centered approach to LMNO’s development process.
Under her supervision, LMNO created the viral video senstion turned reality TV show - THE GOLDEN SISTERS, brought TLC their 2nd family of incredible little people – THE 7 LITTLE JOHNSTONS and co-created ID’s hit series MURDER BOOK. Her latest project is the much-anticipated true crime series SPEAKING FOR THE DEAD with GRAHAM HETRICK.
Rothschild’s non-fiction television career started in the halls of Discovery Communications in Maryland where she served on the Production and Development teams at Travel Channel and Discovery Channel.
While at the Travel Channel, she co-created and Executive Produced the hit treasure hunting series CASH AND TREASURES and won a National Daytime Emmy © for her work on PASSPORT TO LATIN AMERICA with SAMANTHA BROWN. She also served as the Executive Producer on the wildly popular WORLD POKER TOUR, which created a new vanguard in televised poker.
At Discovery, Rothschild served as Supervising Producer and sat on the development team responsible for CASH CAB, DEADLIEST CATCH, I SHOULDN’T BE ALIVE, DIRTY JOBS and PLANET EARTH. She also produced numerous specials and LIVE events at Discovery including THE LAST MYSTERIES OF THE TITANIC with JAMES CAMERON and BIKER BUILD OFF: THE ULTIMATE CHOP.