JONATHAN
ROCKEFELLER
WRITER
DIRECTOR
PRODUCER
FILMMAKER
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BIO

JONATHAN ROCKEFELLER is a filmmaker, theatrical producer, writer, and director for stage and screen, an advertising creative director, with a background in puppetry and the visual arts.

Winner of Best Documentary at the AMA Awards, three Drama Desk and OBA nominations, a Cannes Lion nominee, and twelve-time nominee and winner of Broadway World Awards, including Best New Musical or Play, Best Direction, Best New Book, Best Play, Best New Musical, and Best Independent Production, and two New York Times Critics’ Picks.

In 2014, Jonathan founded ROCKEFELLER STUDIOS to which create and present works based on high-profile intellectual properties for audiences around the world. To date, productions include Disney’s Winnie the Pooh, Sesame Street the Musical, Paddington Gets in a Jam, and The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show.

13 productions appear simultaneously on stage throughout 21 countries, including in the United States, United Kingdom, Japan, and Australia.

He lives in New York.

Representation

Creative Artists Agency
George Lane and Ally Shuster
405 Lexington Avenue, 22nd Floor
New York, NY 10174
t: +1 212 277 9000

Original Works include:
Sesame Street the Musical
Disney's Winnie the Pooh
The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show
Paddington Gets in a Jam
Peter Rabbit the New Musical
Elmer the Patchwork Elephant
Paddington Saves Christmas
The Eric Carle Story Show 
Series:
The World of Eric Carle (26 Episodes) 
That Golden Girls Show! (16 Episodes)
Documentaries:
Boy From the Blue Room
Hollywood or Bust
Road to Pride Rock
Shorts: 
True Confessions of a Movie Addict
Satisfaction
Borrowed Time
Sogno d'Amore
10 Little Rubber Ducks (animation)
Music Videos:
Friend
Stomp
Somebody Out There
Whispers on the Dance Floor
Books: 
I Want to Be an Artist
Speaker:
Comic Con panelist
TEDxBroadway
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