SCOTT SANDERS (President and CEO)
Scott Sanders is one of the entertainment industry’s most creative and prolific entrepreneurs, with a proven track record of producing quality entertainment properties for a variety of media. In addition to his credit as lead producer of the 11 Tony Award-nominated hit Broadway musical The Color Purple, he is widely credited with the historic turnaround of Radio City Music Hall. Additional credits include Elaine Stritch: At Liberty, which won the 2002 Tony Award, and the HBO special of “Elaine Stritch: At Liberty,” which won two Emmy Awards, including one for Sanders for Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Special. Sanders partnered with Queen Latifah in a groundbreaking music partnership to record and produce her first vocal album, The Dana Owens Album, which is approaching platinum sales status and received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Jazz Vocal Album. He also produced the Tony Award-nominated Broadway production Dame Edna: Back With a Vengeance and pop star Josh Groban's Broadway debut in a concert version of Chess at the New Amsterdam Theatre. Sanders also launched film and television powerhouse Mandalay Entertainment with partner and chairman Peter Guber and served as president of Mandalay Television, executive producing six network series – in association with Columbia TriStar – including ABC’s “Cupid” with Jeremy Piven and the WB’s “Young Americans” with Kate Bosworth.

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CAROL FINEMAN (Vice President, Theatre)
Carol was the head of the press department at The Public Theater under legendary producer George C. Wolfe for 11 years where she worked on such shows as Bring In ‘Da Noise, Bring In ‘Da Funk, The Tempest and Elaine Stritch at Liberty, both at The Public Theater and on Broadway. Since 2002, Fineman has managed public relations for a variety of Broadway and off-Broadway productions at Carol Fineman Publicity, a firm she founded, and at Barlow-Hartman Public Relations. She was also producer of the Drama Desk and Obie Award-winning Worth Street Theater Company, which produced the first New York production of Christopher Shinn’s Four and the revival of Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart , starring Raúl Esparza.

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MARA JACOBS (Vice President, Film)
Prior to Scott Sanders Productions, Ms. Jacobs developed a number of features at New Wave Entertainment including “Power Trip,” a comedy written by Roger Kumble at Dreamworks, “Talk of the Town,” a romantic comedy written by Melissa Carter at Gold Circle and “The Brood,” a David Cronenberg re-make written by Corey Goodman at Spyglass. She also co-produced “The Condemned” for Lion’s Gate/WWE.  Ms. Jacobs joined New Wave Entertainment from Creative Artists Agency, where she represented some of the firm’s most high-profile screenwriting and directing clients including Simon Kinberg, Scott Silver and Andrea King.

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