About

Purple Office Productions plays on the alchemy of its co-creators, Cheryl Hassen and Stephanie Nickerson. They combine the elements of imagination and creative vision with a raw honesty and authenticity. The result is original, well-crafted dramatic, comedic and documentary stories in which audiences see themselves, their beauty, and the wonderfully absurd moments that make us human. The goal is always the same: to reveal, inspire, laugh, accept, let go, and feel changed by the incubated experiences we create.

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Two Founders, One Vision

Cheryl Hassen, Co-Founder and CEO of Purple Office Productions

Cheryl Hassen

Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer

Cheryl is an award-winning executive producer, creative producer, and development executive with more than 30 years of experience across animation, live action, and documentary. She is the Creative Producer of I Can Explain. Cheryl is a former Head of Development with Epic Story Media, COO and Executive Producer at DHX Media and Creative Head of Children’s and Youth Programming at CBC Television where she led CBC’s morning block to #1. She has also produced and directed three festival award-winning documentaries for adult audiences, including her first short film, Change You and her feature documentary In A Cobweb, for CBC. Other recent credits include Creative Producer of Mr. Hugo’s Little Library, a Canadian/New Zealand live-action kids series.

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Stephanie Nickerson

Co-Founder, Chief Creative Officer

Stephanie is a multidisciplinary storyteller with more than 25 years of experience writing for theatre, business and screen. She is the creator and writer of I Can Explain, her first greenlit series for Bell. An award-winning playwright, she has also seen others win awards for words she penned in their name. Stephanie holds a BA in Drama from Bishop’s University and an MA in Text and Performance Studies from King’s College, University of London, in conjunction with the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She also trained in Pochinko clown, an approach rooted in emotional truth that shapes the comedy in everything she writes. She is President of snedits inc., a boutique communications consulting company.