Leadership Team

Anna Cheshire Levitan – Co-Founder, Black Carpenter

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Anna Cheshire Levitan is a producer, writer, and editor with an extensive background in publishing and celebrity media. In 2010, Anna Cheshire Levitan launched Black Carpenter with actor Brian White. She and Brian White met on the set of "The Game Plan", while White was filming in Boston.

Anna is also the founder of 5th Street East Prodcution & Launch, which is committed to developing original, branded entertainment by forging strong relationships with our celebrity and media partners in Boston, New York, and Los Angeles. Visit 5th Street East Production & Launch website >

In 2004, Anna was hired by Niche Media LLC (Gotham, LA Confidential, Ocean Drive, Hamptons) as Executive Editor of Boston Common magazine. As Executive Editor, Anna interviewed Academy Awarding winning actors Morgan Freeman and Forest Whitaker; celebrities Emily Mortimer, Emily Deschanel, Ginnifer Goodwin, Dwayne Johnson; royals Sarah, Duchess of York and Monaco’s Caroline, HRH Princess of Hanover; designers Leonardo Ferragamo, Oscar de la Renta, and John Varvatos; and Evelyn Lauder, Senior Corporate Vice President of the Estee Lauder Companies, on her global campaign to raise awareness and find a cure for breast cancer.

In 2008, Anna executive produced and co-created “Style Boston”, a TV show focusing on lifestyle in the Boston area. She sold “Style Boston” in May 2009. “Style Boston” is currently seen on WCVB, Channel 5 “The Boston Channel”, the Boston affiliate of ABC.

Anna is a former ballerina. She studied and danced in Atlanta, New York, and Germany. A cum laude graduate of Agnes Scott College in Atlanta, Georgia, Anna received a Rotary Scholarship to the University of Munster in Germany for post graduate work. She is fluent in German.

On Martin Luther King Day in January 2002, Anna’s eldest daughter Merritt was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes at the age of seven. Since then, Anna and her husband Richard Levitan have been actively involved in the diabetes community, and especially the New England Chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, where Rich has served on the Board.

In November 2009 and again in 2010, Anna and Rich co-chaired the Joslin Diabetes Center’s High Hopes Gala along with NBA Celtics Ray Allen and wife Shannon Allen, whose son Walker also has Type 1 Diabetes. Both events raised over a combined $2.2 million dollars for diabetes research, instruction and care. The Levitans are advocates and supporters of children’s mental healthcare, specifically as it relates to clinical depression in adolescents.

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