Paul Waterman(I)
- Production Manager
- Music Department
- Executive
Paul Waterman is the founder and chief executive officer of Cosmic
Screen, LLC, a global production company that specializes in original
entertainment programming for digital media platforms, film, television
and music.
Previously, Paul was the owner of The Webcast Channel, a production company that he founded in 2000 that specialized in live programming for the web. Paul helped produce several Internet programming milestones, including the first full-length televised broadcast of a complete opera on the Internet ('Andrea Boccelli Live from the Detroit Opera House'), a live webcast of Massenet's 'Werther' that was carried on The Global Music Network at www.gmn.com; the first live webcasts from famed New York jazz club Birdland - including Dave Brubeck and his Quartet and the Tenor Summit, with saxophonists Michael Brecker, David Liebman, and Joe Lovano - and the first live webcast produced for the International Association of Jazz Educators (IAJE), from New Orleans, featuring Joshua Redman, Christian McBride, and the Ramsey Lewis Trio.
Prior to this, Paul founded the The Catalyst Publishing Company, in 1995, to publish and produced books and multimedia products.
Paul has produced a large body of live and studio music productions, ranging from his work with NBC's 'Saturday Night Live' and 'Late Night with David Letterman' to productions with Showtime and pay-per-view events with the Rolling Stones. He is regarded as one of the industry's premier performance rights negotiators, and has expanded this expertise into new media production rights management.
As supervising producer, Paul has helped orchestrate live studio recording sessions, soundtracks, film, theatrical, and musical stage events at such diverse venues as The White House and the Metropolitan Opera, as well as network television and film studios. He has worked with a diverse range of musical artists, including Marvin Hamlisch, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Elton John, Lionel Ritchie, Joe Jackson, Art Blakey, Chick Corea, the Manhattan Transfer, Andrea Boccelli, Dave Brubeck, to name a few.
As a special-event producer, Paul has worked on noteworthy blockbuster shows for the Rolling Stones' 1989 'Steel Wheels' tour at New York's Shea Stadium; organized the famous 1990 Midnight Oil Earth Day Concert (staged from a flatbed truck on New York's Sixth Avenue, across from Radio City Music Hall for a long-form video), and created and produced the successful South Street Seaport Concert Series (later the Parliament Sound Series), a free outdoor series of concerts on New York's Pier 17 that consistently attracted more than 80,000 spectators.
Paul is a national board delegate to the Producers Guild of America New Media Council.
Previously, Paul was the owner of The Webcast Channel, a production company that he founded in 2000 that specialized in live programming for the web. Paul helped produce several Internet programming milestones, including the first full-length televised broadcast of a complete opera on the Internet ('Andrea Boccelli Live from the Detroit Opera House'), a live webcast of Massenet's 'Werther' that was carried on The Global Music Network at www.gmn.com; the first live webcasts from famed New York jazz club Birdland - including Dave Brubeck and his Quartet and the Tenor Summit, with saxophonists Michael Brecker, David Liebman, and Joe Lovano - and the first live webcast produced for the International Association of Jazz Educators (IAJE), from New Orleans, featuring Joshua Redman, Christian McBride, and the Ramsey Lewis Trio.
Prior to this, Paul founded the The Catalyst Publishing Company, in 1995, to publish and produced books and multimedia products.
Paul has produced a large body of live and studio music productions, ranging from his work with NBC's 'Saturday Night Live' and 'Late Night with David Letterman' to productions with Showtime and pay-per-view events with the Rolling Stones. He is regarded as one of the industry's premier performance rights negotiators, and has expanded this expertise into new media production rights management.
As supervising producer, Paul has helped orchestrate live studio recording sessions, soundtracks, film, theatrical, and musical stage events at such diverse venues as The White House and the Metropolitan Opera, as well as network television and film studios. He has worked with a diverse range of musical artists, including Marvin Hamlisch, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Elton John, Lionel Ritchie, Joe Jackson, Art Blakey, Chick Corea, the Manhattan Transfer, Andrea Boccelli, Dave Brubeck, to name a few.
As a special-event producer, Paul has worked on noteworthy blockbuster shows for the Rolling Stones' 1989 'Steel Wheels' tour at New York's Shea Stadium; organized the famous 1990 Midnight Oil Earth Day Concert (staged from a flatbed truck on New York's Sixth Avenue, across from Radio City Music Hall for a long-form video), and created and produced the successful South Street Seaport Concert Series (later the Parliament Sound Series), a free outdoor series of concerts on New York's Pier 17 that consistently attracted more than 80,000 spectators.
Paul is a national board delegate to the Producers Guild of America New Media Council.