ABOUT US
BRIGHT-EYED MEDIA, INC. is multidisciplinary creative studio working across, television, architectural & interior design, and marketing.
All of our work is rooted in our fascination with human behavior—what from the past shapes the present, and how that moves culture forward.
Our studio was built on the belief that design is creative storytelling—no different than building a marketing campaign or producing a TV series. The same instincts guide all three: narrative, visual language, emotion, and point of view.
Jamie Kohen, CSA - Founder
Jamie Kohen is the founder and creative lead of Bright-Eyed Media.
Jamie’s creative training began at Parsons School of Design, where she studied interior space planning, alongside psychology at The New School. Early in her career (1999–2010), she worked as a design director and project manager on the team of New York restaurateur Keith McNally, contributing to a residential townhome gut renovation and restoration, while also launching luxury culinary business lines. In parallel, she built a branding, public relations, and packaging and product design practice for New York–based hospitality brands including il Buco, Balthazar, Pastis, Morandi, and Pravda, among others, as well as select lifestyle and real estate clients—deepening her focus on tactile, experience-driven storytelling.
From 2010 to 2023, Jamie worked in nonfiction television development, casting, and production, running large teams across more than 200 episodes of documentary, unscripted, and competition series. Multiple series she cast in development sold. Her work includes projects for Netflix, Food Network, Discovery Channel, HGTV, and National Geographic, among many others.
Today, Jamie’s documentary, and passion project, Beyond Belief is in the works (since 2017), with her primary focus on the ground up design and build of a residential house in the Hamptons, NY.
Jamie is a member of the Casting Society of America, serves on its Reality Television Committee, and is a voting member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. She was born and raised in New York City, has traveled the globe extensively and is the very proud mom of her son, Guy.
CAREERS
Teamwork makes the dream work; those are the words we live by at Bright-Eyed Media. If you're a thought-provoking, authentic and efficient team-player, please feel free to email us your resume!