a jordan watland & bahar atvur company

Bios.

 
 

Bios.

 

BAHAR ATVUR

Bahar Atvur is a Turkish-American writer and executive producer. In addition to creating and selling content with Watland, Atvur serves as a Producer for Queen Latifah. Atvur has created, developed, produced, and written for MTV, Sony, Harpo, Vice, Travel, Lifetime, BET, FOX, Billboard, and Vanity Fair. In 2023, Atvur was invited to join the Council on Foreign Relations. In 2019, she was named a Presidential Leadership Scholar by the President Bill Clinton, President George W Bush, President George H W Bush, and President Lyndon B Johnson teams. Atvur's ongoing international focus is helping to expand Shanti Bhavan Children’s Project, a residential education program that has successfully disrupted generational poverty for families in India that earn less than $2 a day (as seen on Netflix's Daughters of Destiny). Atvur holds an MBA from NYU’s Stern School of Business.

JORDAN WATLAND

Jordan Watland is a WGA Award-nominated writer and an Emmy Award-winning producer. In addition to creating and producing with Atvur, he serves as Head Writer and Co-Executive Producer for four-time Emmy-winning "Outstanding Entertainment Talk Show," The Kelly Clarkson Show. Under his leadership, the series became the first daytime talk show in history to be nominated in the Best Comedy/Variety category at the Writers Guild of America Awards. Previously, Watland produced some of the biggest series in late night comedy and syndicated talk, including: Jimmy Kimmel Live, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, The Katie Couric Show, The Late Late Show, The Martha Stewart Show, Steve Harvey, and Bill Nye Saves the World. He also co-created and executive produced the Netflix comedy panel show, The Fix. Outside of television, Watland writes essays, short stories, and novels. He is a former NCAA All-American swimmer and a proud member of the Writers Guild of America West.