Jennifer Smith is the founder of the LA based Music Supervision company “Rat Dance Party” and has worked in the music and media industry for over a decade. She started her career as part of the music teams for Dancing With The Stars (ABC), The Ellen Show (WB), and America’s Best Dance Crew (MTV). Her love of music and the exploding media landscape guided her to join the Kobalt Music synchronization team to creatively pitch and clear music with networks, studios, music supervisors, production companies, and new media companies. Her time at Kobalt gave her extensive and broad experience in the synchronization world, dealing with all stakeholders in the creative and business process including record labels, songwriters, producers, musicians, managers, and marketing teams. After seven years at Kobalt, Jennifer went back to her first love of content and storytelling and joined the music team on ABC’s reboot of American Idol. After season 1, Rat Dance Party was born. Jennifer has worked on projects produced by Showtime, Netflix, Viacom, Shorts TV, Amazon, Pluto TV, NBC, Voltage Pictures, Indican Productions, and many more. Currently she is the music supervisor on Marc Cherry’s hit show on CBS “Why Women Kill”, the iconic music-docuseries “Behind The Music” on Paramount+, and various other films.

Jennifer is a member of the Television Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Board Member of the Guild of Music Supervisors, Women In Media, Women In Film, Women In Music, and The Recording Academy.

EDUCATION:

Bachelor of Arts in Theatre & Communications | Whittier College Producing, New York Film Academy

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