Barbara Wellner has had an extensive career in creating, developing and producing a wide variety of television programming and live events. Barbara earned her B.A. in Broadcasting and Film from the Boston University School of Communications. Following graduation, Barbara began her career producing nationally syndicated news reports for Newsweek Broadcasting.

As a partner at Real Productions, she created numerous cable and broadcast programs including the Cable Ace Award-nominated The Enigma of Bobby Bittman, a docu-comedy with Eugene Levy for HBO/Cinemax; Esquire’s About Men for Women for Hearst and Lifetime; Leifer Madness, a VH-1 series with writer/comedian Carol Leifer; Nickelodeon's The All American TV Dad Quiz with Bob Saget; and The Gordon Elliott Show and the series Gordon Elliott: Live and Dangerous, both for Fox. While with Real Productions, she also produced commercials and industrials for IBM, Clairol, Pepsi, and Ocean Spray.

In 1993, Barbara was part of the team that developed and launched F/X. As Senior Producer, she was involved with establishing the philosophy and identity of the channel. Involved with the development and production of live and original programming, she also hired, managed and supervised on-air talent and a 200-person production staff. At F/X, Barbara developed and produced 40 hours of live original programming. Notable personalities that Barbara discovered at F/X include: Tom Bergeron, Jeff Probst, Phil Koeghan and Orlando Jones. She went on to become Vice President of Programming at 2Oth Television, in charge of developing talent and original programming for network, syndication and cable. During her tenure, she was part of a team that developed over 30 projects and produced and managed over 100 hours of television including: A Current Affair, Cops, America's Most Wanted, The Gordon Elliott Show, Gabriella. In her position, she also implemented strategies for the development and production of international programming with various News Corporation properties such as BSkyB, Foxtel and Star.

Throughout her career, Barbara has created pilots and developed projects for CBS, TLC, and The Family Channel. Barbara produced TV Guide's Celebrity Dish, five one-hour programs for The TV Food Network. Barbara co-executive produced 65 episodes of The Dream Team for the Sci-fi Channel and two seasons of Style Court for the Style Network. Barbara was the original Executive Producer of E’s week in review comedy show, The Soup. She was creative consultant for the Fox Reality Network’s daily recap show, Reality Remix. Barbara created and produced for Telepictures a syndicated court show pilot, Celebrity Jury. Barbara was also the executive producer on Judge Mooney, a comedy court series for BET. Most recently, she was co-executive producer on the weekly comedy series, Reality Binge for the Fox Reality Channel.

Barbara is a member of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences where she served on the Board of Governors and Chair of the Activities Committee.