RowHouseTV is a media production and development company with head offices in Baltimore, Maryland. We are a collective of producers and content creators who together have accumulated decades of experience producing some of the world’s strongest documentary programs, THE FIRST 48 for A&E, BORDER WARS and INSIDE COCAINE WARS for National Geographic Channel, AFGHANISTAN BOMB PATROL for G4, SWAMP PEOPLE for History Channel, STORM CHASERS for Discovery Channel, just to name a few. Follow us as we continue to craft today’s best stories and develop tomorrow’s best new programs.
Mike Sheridan is an award-winning television documentary producer and director. He began his career shooting and producing many of the first cinéma vérité style programs in the world like TRAUMA: LIFE IN THE E.R., for which he received an Emmy nomination. In 2005 he received the James Beard Award for Best National Food Show for directing, producing, and shooting for the series BOBBY FLAY: CHEF MENTOR. Sheridan was also the Co-Executive Producer and show runner on the groundbreaking homicide investigation series THE FIRST 48 on A&E for six seasons. During that time it became the highest-rated non-fiction justice series on television. As Senior Executive Producer for National Geographic Television in NYC, he managed and oversaw a variety of series and development projects for NGC including the hit show BORDER WARS. Most recently, Sheridan was the show runner on the real crime series THE SYSTEM with Joe Berlinger about controversial issues within the American criminal justice system.
Gabriel Goodenough began his career learning the craft of storytelling and photography while working on productions such as A BEAUTIFUL MIND, THE SOPRANOS, and HOMICIDE: LIFE ON THE STREETS. His true love has always been for non-narrative vérité storytelling; his journey into this world started while working with Steven Soderbergh and George Clooney on their hybrid fiction/documentary programs K STREET and UNSCRIPTED for HBO. Since then, Gabriel has directed the documentary ZEBRA KIDS about childhood life in the United States inner-city, as well as produced countless hours of content for A&E’s the THE FIRST 48 and numerous other programs.
Joe Venafro is a pioneer in using small format video to produce true crime stories, that specialize in capturing fast-moving drama. In his six years on A&E’s THE FIRST 48, he covered more than 500 death investigations following the Miami Homicide Unit. He has been embedded with the Navy’s Explosive Ordinance Division in Afghanistan twice for G4’s BOMB PATROL AFGHANISTAN. Equal parts director, producer, and shooter, Venafro has also worked for National Geographic, The Learning Channel, BET, TruTV, OWN, Animal Planet, Biography, MTV, IFC, Warner Brothers, and The Travel Channel. A graduate of Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism, Venafro has written for The New York Times, The Boston Globe, and The Baltimore Sun.
Andres Vasquez is a Colombian-American filmmaker who has, for over a decade, traveled the world producing non-fiction programs for international networks like Discovery Channel, National Geographic Channel, and History Channel. Andres’s work has constantly put him in harms way. Whether it is looking for murderers on inner-city streets, chasing tornadoes in the American Midwest, hunting alligators in Louisiana, or running from tear-gas grenades in the Middle East, what others label dangerous, Vasquez considers the most exciting moments of his life.
