Adam Leipzig

Adam Leipzig (born March 29, 1958) is the CEO of Entertainment Media Partners, an American film and theatre producer, film executive and author. As a former Disney Executive, he supervised such films as Dead Poets Society (1989) and Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989). He went on to produce such films as Titus (1999) and The Way Back (2010). While president of National Geographic Films, he acquired the international rights to March of the Penguins and created the US version. He is the author of two books on filmmaking, both published by imprints of Macmillan, and the publisher of the online arts magazine Cultural Weekly.

Leipzig attended Yale University as an undergraduate and there received a B.A. in literature in 1979. He also trained as Fellow in Arts and Public Policy at Coro Foundation.

Leipzig joined the Los Angeles Actors’ Theatre in Hollywood in 1979 as a stage manager and eventually became the theatre’s dramaturg and one of its producers. In 1984 Leipzig was one of the members of Los Angeles theatre companies that successfully negotiated with the Los Angeles Olympic Arts Festival for local theatre inclusion in the festival. In 1985 the Los Angeles Actors’ Theatre changed its name to the Los Angeles Theatre Center and moved to a four-theatre performing arts complex in downtown Los Angeles. Leipzig was involved in plays by Dario Fo,Jon Robin Baitz, David Henry Hwang, Miguel Piñero, Joyce Carol Oates, Charles Marowitz, William Mastrosimone, Steve Carter, Michael Frayn, Marlene Meyer and Emmanuel Fried. Leipzig was one of the producers of Secret Honor, written by Donald Freed and Arnold M. Stone and directed by Robert Altman, which Altman also made into a movie. Leipzig left his staff position at the Theatre Center in 1986, but continued to consult and do translations for the company. Leipzig worked with Iranian theatre artist Reza Abdoh, and after Abdoh’s death in 1995 organized the archiving of his works. In 1999, Leipzig was responsible for the Internet success of Bang, Bang, You’re Dead by William Mastrosimone. More recently, he produced two plays by Donald Freed: American Iliad (2001) and The Einstein Plan (2010).

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