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The John Schreiber Group
John Schreiber, termed "impresario of brand names" by the New York Times, is the founder and president of The John Schreiber Group (JSG), a New York City entertainment company.
Through live performance, national television and radio broadcasts, traveling tours, spectacles, festivals, and celebrations of all shapes and forms, Mr. Schreiber has led his company beyond the limits of event production and strategic marketing to execute programs that are innovative, newsworthy, and exciting.
Mr. Schreiber produced Carnegie Hall's annual American Popular Song Celebration, which featured tributes to the music of Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole, Judy Garland, the glorious MGM Musicals, Betty Comden and Adolph Green, Alan Jay Lerner, and others. With George C. Wolfe, he is producing a new musical revue set to premiere in June, 2002 at Harlem's Apollo Theater entitled Harlem Song. Elaine Stritch At Liberty, a one person show he developed with the legendary musical theater star, will open the season at the New York Shakespeare Festival's Public Theater later this month.
Other company projects have included The New Yorker Magazine Literary and Arts Festival, National Public Radio's "25th-Anniversary Celebration at The White House," hosted by the President and Mrs. Clinton; the Harman: How to Listen music appreciation program that has visited more than 300 schools with such artists as Grover Washington, Jr., Chuck Mangione, Bobby McFerrin, and Wynton Marsalis; NASCAR Rocks! on the Road with the Allman Brothers Band for CBS Sports and NASCAR; and programs for The People's Republic of China, The Juilliard School, The American Museum of Natural History, American Express, Pilot Pen, Hard Rock Café, The Bravo Network, QVC, Tiffany & Co., Habitat for Humanity and others.
Mr. Krantz, partner and executive vice president of The John Schreiber Group, coordinates all major assemblies of talent for the company and guides creative development on live entertainment as well as network and cable television projects.
He is supervising Comedy Central's broadcast of the New York Friar's Club Roast, while also developing JSG's television properties for BRAVO, The USA Network, MTV, PBS, and other broadcast networks.
He served as Executive Producer of The President's Summit for America's Future; the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences Tribute to Carlos Santana; and Carole King: Making Music With Friends, a star-studded concert at Madison Square Garden celebrating People Magazine's 25th anniversary. For the past two years, Mr. Krantz served as executive producer of the annual Songwriters Hall of Fame Induction and Awards Dinner, which has featured Paul McCartney, Billy Joel, Brian Wilson, Dolly Parton, James Brown, and James Taylor, among others. He has also produced New York's annual Toyota Comedy Festival for the last seven years. Other prime-time television credits include ABC's AIDS awareness special, In A New Light, hosted by Barbara Walters; CBS' 20th Anniversary Salute to People Magazine; FOX's Keeping America's Promise: A Report to the Nation, featuring General Colin Powell; ABC's Elmopalooza, celebrating 30 years of Sesame Street music; and VH1's Hard Rock Live series.
CoMedia Inc.
Robert Kaminsky, President of CoMedia, Inc., has spent over 25 years in the entertainment industry spanning Film, TV, New Media, Radio, Music, and Commercial Photography. He is a producer, writer, and director of prime-time specials for network and cable television. Jerry Seinfeld, Julia Louis Dreyfus, Mary Tyler Moore, John Candy, Lily Tomlin, Bob Newhart, Kelsey Grammer, David Hyde Pearce, Drew Carey, and others have hosted his many shows, including Spy Magazine's How to be Famous, People Magazine's 20th Birthday, The Montreal International Comedy Festival, Farm Aid, and the Grammies. Mr. Kaminsky directed The Presidents' Summit For America's Future, featuring former President Clinton, General Colin Powell, and Oprah Winfrey. His most recent productions include The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival and *NSync, Live at the New Orleans Superdome. He produced the Grammy nominated Bette Midler album Mud Will Be Flung Tonight and Into Some Of Your Favorite Faces. He has traveled worldwide recording major popular musical artists to produce 100 episodes of The King Biscuit Flour Hour, and 225 episodes of The Silver Eagle Cross Country Music Show. He has also served as an A&R director for A&M Records. Mr. Kaminsky attended NYU Film School and the Berklee School of Music and studied multimedia at UCLA. He serves, as a mentor in the American Film Institute Enhanced Television workshop, is a founding member of Intertainer Inc., a Santa Monica-based broadband programming and software development company and maintains offices in Los Angeles, California.
Peter Kaminsky's work as managing editor of National Lampoon in the 1970s led to a long string of writing/executive producing roles on prime-time specials hosted by Jerry Seinfeld, Mary Tyler Moore, John Candy, Jane Curtin, and Bob Newhart. Kaminsky is well known as a journalist and author. His "Outdoors" column has appeared for the last dozen years in the New York Times, and his food writing appears regularly in New York and Food & Wine.This fall he published two books, The Elements of Taste and The Moon Pulled Up An Acre of Bass: A Flyrod Odyssey at Montauk Point.
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