Stern, James D. (James Stern, Jim Stern)

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Stern, James D. (James Stern, Jim Stern)

PERSONAL

Married Kathryn Glasgow (a writer and journalist).

Addresses:

Office—Endgame Entertainment, 9100 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 100W, Beverly Hills, CA 90212.

Career:

Producer and director. Worked at Manhattan Theatre Company and New Vision Pictures; worked for Howard Ashman, a director and playwright; Endgame Entertainment, Beverly Hills, CA, chief executive officer. Stern Joint Venture Company (a financial investment firm), managing partner; Chicago Bulls (professional basketball team), owner.

Awards, Honors:

Drama Desk Award, unique theatre experience, 1994, for Stomp; Antoinette Perry Award nomination, best play, 1994, for Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992; Antoinette Perry Award nomination, best revival of a play, 1998, for The Diary of Anne Frank; Best Film Award, Best Director Award, and Audience Award, all Milan International Film Festival, 2000, for All the Rage; Antoinette Perry Award nomination, best musical, and Drama Desk Award nomination, outstanding new musical, both 2000, for Swing!; Antoinette Perry Award, best musical, and Drama Desk Award, outstanding new musical, both 2001, for The Producers; Antoinette Perry Award, best musical, and Drama Desk Award, outstanding new musical, both 2003, for Hairspray; named one of the most powerful people in Hollywood, Premiere magazine, 2005; Antoinette Perry Award nomination, best musical, and Drama Desk Award nomination, outstanding musical, both 2006, for The Wedding Singer; Drama Desk Award nomination, outstanding musical, 2007, for Legally Blonde; Daytime Emmy Award nomination (with others), outstanding special class animated program, 2007, for Bigfoot Presents: "Meteor and the Mighty Monster Trucks"; Gotham Award nomination, best film, Independent Feature Project, 2007, and Independent Spirit Award nomination, best feature, Independent Feature Project/West, 2008, both with others, for I'm Not There.

CREDITS

Stage Producer:

Wild Men! (musical; also known as Wildman), produced in Chicago, IL, and also produced at the Westside Theatre (Downstairs), New York City, 1993.

Redwood Curtain, Brooks Atkinson Theatre, New York City, 1993.

Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 (solo show), Cort Theatre, New York City, 1994.

Stomp, Orpheum Theatre, New York City, beginning 1994.

Bunny Bunny, Lucille Lortel Theatre, New York City, 1997.

Associate producer, The Diary of Anne Frank, Music Box Theatre, New York City, 1997-98.

Communicating Doors, Variety Arts Theatre, New York City, 1998-99.

Associate producer, The Sound of Music (musical), Martin Beck Theatre, New York City, 1998-99.

Associate producer, The Weir, Walter Kerr Theatre, New York City, 1999.

Swing! (revue), St. James Theatre, New York City, 1999-2001.

The Producers (musical), Cadillac Palace Theatre, Chicago, IL, 2001, St. James Theatre, New York City, 2001-2007, also produced at Drury Lane Theatre, London, beginning 2004.

Hairspray (musical), Neil Simon Theatre, New York City, 2002—.

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Royale Theatre, New York City, 2003.

Little Shop of Horrors (musical), Virginia Theatre, New York City, 2003-2004.

The Wedding Singer (musical), Al Hirschfield Theatre, New York City, 2006.

Legally Blonde (musical), Palace Theatre, New York City, 2007—.

Film Executive Producer:

Co-executive producer, Let the Devil Wear Black, Trimark Pictures, 1999.

Slam from the Street Vol #1: The Original (documentary), Image Entertainment, 2002.

Slam from the Street Vol #2: Playground All-Stars (documentary), Image Entertainment, 2002.

Slam from the Street: Battle Slams! (documentary), Image Entertainment, 2003.

Slam from the Street: Hip-Hop Slams! (documentary), Image Entertainment, 2003.

Five Children and It (also known as 5 Children & It and Cinq enfants et moi), Capitol Films, 2004.

Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (also known as American High, Harold & Kumar, Harold & Kumar Get the Munchies, and Harold et Kumar chassent le burger), New Line Cinema, 2004.

Stage Beauty (also known as Compleat Female Stage Beauty), Lions Gate Films, 2004.

The Best Man (also known as Best Man, Worst Friend, Unhitched, and Ein Trauzeuge zum Verlieben), Redbus Film Distribution, 2005.

Lord of War, Lions Gate Films, 2005.

Proof, Miramax, 2005.

Rag Tale, Becker Films/Metropolitan (MTA), 2005.

River Queen, UK Film Council/Silverscreen Films, 2005.

Beowulf & Grendel (also known as Bjolfkvioa), Truly Indie/Union Station, c. 2006.

Comeback Season, Myriad Pictures, 2006.

An Education, BBC Films/Wildgaze Films, 2008.

Film Producer:

Associate producer, Jeffrey, Orion, 1995.

35 Miles from Normal, 1997.

All the Rage (also known as It's the Rage and The Rage), New City Releasing, 1999.

Michael Jordan to the Max (IMAX documentary), Giant Screen Films/IMAX, 2000.

Pulse: A Stomp Odyssey (short documentary), Giant Screen Films, 2002.

The Year of the Yao (documentary; also known as Yao Ming Movie), Fine Line Features, 2004.

Associate stage producer, The Producers (musical; also known as The Producers: The Movie Musical, Les producteurs, Los productores, Los productore—La pelicula musical, Os produtores, and The producers—kevaet koittaa Hitlerille), Universal, 2005.

The Alibi (also known as Lies and Alibis and Lies & Alibis), Summit Entertainment/Endgame Entertainment, 2006.

… So Goes the Nation (documentary), IFC First Take, 2006.

(As James Stern) Stay Alive (also known as Death Game and Sobreviviendo), Buena Vista, 2006.

Stage producer, Hairspray (musical), New Line Cinema, 2007.

I'm Not There (also known as I'm Not There. and I'm Not There: Suppositions on a Film Concerning Dylan), The Weinstein Company, 2007.

Any Way You Want Me, Endgame Entertainment, 2008.

The Brothers Bloom, Summit Entertainment, 2008.

Epic Proportions, Endgame Entertainment, 2008.

Every Little Step: The Journey of a Phenomenon (documentary), Endgame Entertainment, 2008.

Solstice, The Weinstein Company, 2008.

Easy Virtue, Ealing Studios/Endgame Entertainment, 2009.

Worked on other films.