Johanna Baldwin
Johanna Baldwin is an independent writer/producer whose work includes film, television, theatre and short stories.
Johanna’s career in the entertainment business began at CAA where she was first mentored by Bill Haber and then promoted to literary agent.
Her credits include: an original script, Venus & Mars that premiered on the BBC with actor Robson Green; producing an eight episode storytelling series for Trio Television entitled The Moth, featuring Fisher Stevens, Griffin Dunne and Adam Gopnik; co-producing the film, Someone Else’s America, with Tom Conti; and as an executive on the film, Sarafina, which starred Whoopi Goldberg.
Her short stories and essays have appeared in numerous publications from the New York Times to London’s Evening Standard.
Johanna co-created with Andrew Egan an animated series entitled The Phonies, currently in production with Stage 9/Touchstone, digiTALE Entertainment, Amy Nederlander Productions, and HH Entertainment (Bill Haber and Lawrence Horowitz).
Other film projects in development include: as writer/producer, The Amy Biehl Story with Distant Horizon Films of South Africa and filmmaker Donovan Marsh; Almost in Florida, based on the Petrona Tomas case; and the love story, There Are No Soulmates, for Amy Hobby and Russ Stratton of Washington Square Films.
She is collaborating on her first play, A Childproof Room, with award-winning theatre director Joseph Hardy. And in her producing capacity, Johanna is working with Magnolia Mae Films alongside Doug Liman (Mr. and Mrs. Smith, The Bourne Identity) to develop the book, The Funeral Makers, that he plans to direct in 2008.