Sanne Wohlenberg

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"When you bring Star Wars to the small screen, you get more time to really spend with characters, so it automatically becomes more about character. And that's also what I think the audience will come back to every week. Of course, they'll want to be dazzled, and of course there has to be some action that will be part of the adventurous journeys that Star Wars ultimately sets you on. But the engagement with characters is ultimately what drives you back and what will give it longevity."

―Sanne Wohlenberg discussing Andor^[2]

Sanne Wohlenberg is an executive producer who worked on the television series Star Wars: Andor.

Biography

After Sanne Wohlenberg finished working on the Chernobyl series, she served as the producer of record for the Star Wars: Andor television series. She came with the existing pieces of the show. Tony Gilroy joined the show as a writer during Wohlenberg's time as the producer of record.^[3] She eventually became an executive producer for the Star Wars: Andor television series.^[4] During the week-long writers' room in November, 2019 in New York, Gilroy introduced his idea of the prison^[5] on Narkina 5,^[6] Wohlenberg initially found the idea terrifying because she thought it was familiar and she feared falling into the prison trope. Wohlenberg and the writers contextualized the prison and made it fresh for Star Wars.^[7] Wohlenberg helped feed the writers' creative flow and helped them think about what they could accomplish in a practical way and made it so.^[5] She felt that the process was a large collaboration and an exciting journey. The best idea for the prison ended up winning.^[7]

The first season took place five years before the film Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, and Gilroy wanted to end the series right before the events of the film. He realized that maintaining the show's scope for four more seasons would be too overwhelming, so he and Wohlenberg decided that Season 2 would use Season One's structure in which a story arc would unfold over three episodes written and directed by the same team.^[8] Gilroy and the crew decided to use each block to represent a year.^[9]

Wohlenberg found the show to be an unusual journey because they had to find the beginning of a story that people already know the ending of. She was prepared to take on the show's 195 speaking roles due to the quality of the material. Wohlenberg expected that the engagement with characters would captivate audiences and get them to come back every week. She felt like delving into familiar characters was the perfect reason to make the series. Wohlenberg enjoyed getting to explore Mon Mothma and offering unexpected insights. Wohlenberg and her team put much thought into how they would represent Mothma and show her journey, and they stayed aware of where she ended up in Rogue One.^[2] In September, 2022, Wohlenberg attended the Andor launch event in Hollywood, California.^[10]

Works

Filmography

Year	Title	Series	Contribution(s)
2022	"Kassa"	Star Wars: Andor	Executive Producer^[4]
2022	"That Would Be Me"	Andor	Executive Producer^[11]
2022	"Reckoning"	Andor	Executive Producer^[12]
2022	"Aldhani"	Andor	Executive Producer^[13]
2022	"The Axe Forgets"	Andor	Executive Producer^[14]
2022	"The Eye"	Andor	Executive Producer^[15]