Janet Grillo is an Emmy Award-winning producer, award-winning,
critically acclaimed filmmaker, former Senior VP of Production/East
Coast at New Line Cinema, and a professor at NYU Tisch School of the
Arts “Kanbar Institute of Film and Television".Grillo grew up in New
Jersey and moved to New York City upon graduating college. She
graduated magna cum laude with honors in theatre from Wesleyan
University and later received an MFA from Tisch School of the Arts
Dramatic Writing Program. She is currently an Assistant Arts Professor
at New York University Tisch School of the Arts Kanbar Institute for
Film and Television, Undergraduate Program and lives full-time in New
York City.Grillo began her career as an assistant literary manager at
Circle Repertory Company, under co-founder Marshall Mason, where she
was a member of the emerging writer/director/actor Lab. She then
worked at New Line Cinema in the New York office for 10 years, rising
through the ranks from freelance script reader, becoming the studio's
first Story Editor and first Director of Acquisitions, establishing
both departments, to eventually become the Sr. VP of Production/East
Coast, under the President of Productions, Sara Risher and
President/Founder Bob Shaye.During her tenure at New Line, she
launched the House Party franchise and the careers of filmmakers
Reggie Hudlin, Ted Demme, and David O. Russell, whom Grillo married in
1992. She also executive produced Sundance Film Festival award-winning
films Spanking the Monkey and Hangin' with the Homeboys. As an
independent producer, Grillo executive produced Joe the King, and
produced Searching for Paradise, which was developed at the Sundance
Labs and aired on the Sundance Channel. She received an Emmy Award as
executive producer of HBO's documentary Autism: The Musical.
critically acclaimed filmmaker, former Senior VP of Production/East
Coast at New Line Cinema, and a professor at NYU Tisch School of the
Arts “Kanbar Institute of Film and Television".Grillo grew up in New
Jersey and moved to New York City upon graduating college. She
graduated magna cum laude with honors in theatre from Wesleyan
University and later received an MFA from Tisch School of the Arts
Dramatic Writing Program. She is currently an Assistant Arts Professor
at New York University Tisch School of the Arts Kanbar Institute for
Film and Television, Undergraduate Program and lives full-time in New
York City.Grillo began her career as an assistant literary manager at
Circle Repertory Company, under co-founder Marshall Mason, where she
was a member of the emerging writer/director/actor Lab. She then
worked at New Line Cinema in the New York office for 10 years, rising
through the ranks from freelance script reader, becoming the studio's
first Story Editor and first Director of Acquisitions, establishing
both departments, to eventually become the Sr. VP of Production/East
Coast, under the President of Productions, Sara Risher and
President/Founder Bob Shaye.During her tenure at New Line, she
launched the House Party franchise and the careers of filmmakers
Reggie Hudlin, Ted Demme, and David O. Russell, whom Grillo married in
1992. She also executive produced Sundance Film Festival award-winning
films Spanking the Monkey and Hangin' with the Homeboys. As an
independent producer, Grillo executive produced Joe the King, and
produced Searching for Paradise, which was developed at the Sundance
Labs and aired on the Sundance Channel. She received an Emmy Award as
executive producer of HBO's documentary Autism: The Musical.
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