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In their own words:
Craig Zadan and Neil Meron’s feature film, television, and theater productions have earned a total of six Academy Awards, five Golden Globes, 14 Emmy Awards, two Peabody Awards, a Grammy Award, six GLAAD Awards, four NAACP Image Awards and two Tony Awards. After successfully producing the 85th Academy Awards, which garnered over 40 million viewers in the U.S. alone, they were invited back to produce the 86th Academy Awards, which boasted a U.S. viewership of 45.4 million, making it the most watched Academy Awards since 2000. In 2015, Zadan and Meron produced the 87th Academy Awards, making them the first executive producers in sixteen years to have produced three consecutive Oscar broadcasts.
Other recent projects include executive producing the critically acclaimed NBC production of “The Wiz Live!,” and executive producing 2013’s hugely successful, live, three-hour NBC presentation of “The Sound of Music Live!” starring Grammy winner Carrie Underwood as Maria. The landmark broadcast drew a record-breaking 21.3 million viewers, giving the network its highest ratings in seven years and the first live network musical broadcast since the 1950s. In 2014 they produced the second live musical for NBC, a broadcast of the classic musical “Peter Pan.” Zadan and Meron also produced a four-hour miniseries telling the true story of “Bonnie & Clyde,” directed by multiple Oscar-nominee Bruce Beresford, starring Emile Hirsch, Holliday Grainger, and Oscar winners William Hurt and Holly Hunter. The program was also a milestone broadcast, marking the first prime-time scripted show to air simultaneously on three separate networks: A+E, History and Lifetime.
Zadan and Meron’s motion pictures include: “Hairspray,” “The Bucket List,” “Footloose,” and the Oscar-winning Best Picture, “Chicago.” Their television projects, which have accrued 120 Emmy nominations, include: “Gypsy,” “Cinderella,” “Annie,” “The Music Man,” “Life With Judy Garland,” “Martin & Lewis,” “Serving In Silence,” “The Beach Boys,” “Brian’s Song,” “The Three Stooges,” “The Reagans,” “A Raisin In The Sun,” the Golden Globe-nominated TV series “Smash” and the hit series “Drop Dead Diva”. Their latest critically acclaimed television movie was a contemporary version of “Steel Magnolias” starring Queen Latifah.
On Broadway, they produced the Tony-winning “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying” starring Daniel Radcliffe and John Larroquette, and the Tony-winning “Promises, Promises” starring Sean Hayes and Kristin Chenoweth. Zadan and Meron recently signed a deal with the Shubert Organization to develop and produce new plays and musicals for the stage. They also produced a concert version of “Bombshell,” the fictional musical from their series “Smash,” as a charity benefit for The Actors Fund.
Upcoming projects include collaborating with Emmy Award-winning writer Aaron Sorkin for NBC’s forthcoming broadcast of “A Few Good Men Live!”; producing “Pippin” for The Weinstein Company; “Monster High,” based on the billion dollar Mattel franchise, for Universal Pictures; and “In Sight,” a psychological thriller starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt for Universal Pictures.
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Executive Producers: Neil Meron, Craig Zadan
VP, TV Development: Mark Nicholson
SVP, TV Development and Production: Tasha Brown
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Filmography:
Cotton Club (TV)
Pippin
Sing You Home
The Body Institute (TV)
The P Word (TV)
Untitled Beach Boys Project
Untitled Jon Stamos Project (TV)
Hairspray Live! (TV) 2016
Peter Pan Live! (TV) 2014
Drop Dead Diva (TV) 2009 – 2014
Bonnie & Clyde (TV) 2013
The Sound of Music Live! (TV) 2013
Steel Magnolias (TV) 2012
Blue Lagoon: The Awakening (TV) 2012
20 to 1 (TV) 2009
Back (TV) 2009
Living Proof (TV) 2008
A Raisin in the Sun (TV) 2008
Family Man (TV) 2008
The Bucket List 2007
Hairspray 2007
Wedding Wars (TV) 2006
Empire (TV Mini-series) 2005
Suburban Madness (TV) 2004
It’s All Relative (TV) 2003 – 2004
The Reagans (TV) 2003
Lucy (TV) 2003
The Music Man (TV) 2003
Veritas: The Quest (TV) 2003
Martin and Lewis (TV) 2002
Chicago 2002
Brian’s Song (TV) 2001
What Makes a Family (TV) 2001
Life With Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows (TV) 2001
The Three Stooges (TV Movie) 2000
The Beach Boys: An American Family (TV) 2000
The Wonderful World of Disney (TV) 1997 – 1999
Double Platinum (TV) 1999
The Assassination File (TV) 1996
My Fellow Americans 1996
In the Media:
Craig Zadan, Neil Meron Developing Musical Event Series at Fox About Harlem’s Cotton Club | Variety | February 28, 2017
Fox is developing an event series about the Cotton Club, the hottest club in Harlem in the roaring ‘20s, Variety has learned.
Titled “Cotton Club,” the sexy, soapy music series is about the club and the interconnected lives of the black entertainers who performed there and the white gangsters who ran it.
The project hails from an A-list team. Ayanna Floyd is writer and showrunner, and will serve as executive producer with live event honchos Craig Zadan and Neil Meron. Broadway vet Kenny Leon will serve as director and executive producer, and former “X Factor” judge L.A. Reid is executive music supervisor and EP.
Sony Pictures Television and Storyline Entertainment are behind the event series, which is in early development at the script phase. Mark Nicholson, John Rice, and Joe Batteer are also co-executive producers.
“Cotton Club” follows in the footsteps of Fox’s other musical programming, including “Grease: Live” and “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.”
The event series is not the first screen treatment for the Cotton Club. Richard Gere starred in Francis Ford Coppola’s feature film about the jazz club in 1984.
For Zadan and Meron, the project is one of many music-based events the duo has produced, following NBC’s live musicals “Sound of Music,” “Peter Pan,” “The Wiz,” “Hairspray,” and the upcoming “Bye Bye Birdie.” The pair has also produced the Academy Awards three times.
Floyd is already in business with Fox, as a co-executive producer on “Empire.” She was also a longtime producer on ABC’s “Private Practice,” and her other credits include NBC’s “Hannibal” and TNT’s “Falling Skies.” She is repped by ICM, Rain Management, and Erik Hyman.
CAA reps Zadan, Meron, Storyline Entertainment, Leon, and Reid.
Queen Latifah, Betsy Brandt, Jill Scott & Marin Ireland To Star In Flint Water Crisis Movie | Deadline | April 13, 2017
Queen Latifah (Star), Betsy Brandt (Life In Pieces, Breaking Bad), Jill Scott and Marin Ireland (Sneaky Pete) are set to headline Flint, Lifetime’s original movie about the water-contamination crisis in Flint, MI, from Sony Pictures TV. Queen Latifah also will serve as an executive producer on the project alongside Craig Zadan, Neil Meron and Katie Couric, reuniting with Zadan & Meron, Lifetime and Sony TV after collaborating on Steel Magnolias, the third most-watched original telecast ever in the network’s history.
Directed by Bruce Beresford from a script by Barbara Stepansky, Flint was inspired by the Time magazine cover story, “The Toxic Tap,” by Josh Sanburn. It follows the true story of three women from Flint who sought justice following the wrongdoing committed against the residents of the city who were unknowingly drinking and using lead-laden water. Their actions inspired a national movement for safe drinking water despite the political powers working against them at every turn. Brandt, Scott and Ireland will play real-life activists and Latifah will play a fourth resident, fighting to expose the poisoning of the community during the horrific events of the water crisis.
Flint begins production next week in Toronto.
Zadan and Meron of Storyline Entertainment and Couric executive produce alongside Queen Latifah and Shakim Compere via their Flavor Unit. Storyline’s Mark Nicholson serves as co-executive producer.
Breaking Bad alumna Brandt, now one of the stars of the CBS comedy series Life In Pieces, is repped by TalentWorks, Patty Woo management and attorney John Moonves.