Professional Profile: Anne Grace, Senior Producer,
Scene Three Media Works
From an early age, Anne Grace knew that she wanted to be a pro-
ducer. The best friend of a child actor whose father was a writer/director
for Disney, Grace was raised around the film industry. "Our families were
close--I pretty much grew up on the Disney lot." After high school she
attended University of San Diego for two years, then transferred to Cal
State Northridge, where she earned a bachelor's degree in radio and tele-
vision broadcasting.
During her last semester of college, Grace took an internship at
Landsburg, working on That's Incredible. "They had this huge library that
two women ran. They needed interns to come in and find stories for them.
I would stay late, above and beyond, and they would ask me to come in
on shoot days and help the script supervisor. I did that on my own." The
company had no paying positions available when Grace graduated, so she
took a job working for a record promoter, but stayed in touch with her
Landsburg connections. When production for Science Times began staffing
up, she was offered a job as production secretary series.
Shortly after Joan Barnett joined the Landsburg company, Grace was
recommended and hired as her assistant. "She was vice president of
movies and miniseries for NBC for four years under Brandon Tarticoff,
and then her contract was up. Joan was the first female vice president at
a network. I started working
for her and it was the greatest
thing of my career. She taught
me everything. Not only
would she develop scripts, but
she would executive produce
them and I would work with
her on them." Over the next
several years, Grace gained
experience working on a
variety of projects, including
the Kennedy miniseries with
Martin Sheen, Adam with
Adam Walsh, Parent Trap II,
and the series Bluegrass.
Newly married, Grace relo-
cated to Nashville with her
husband in the late 1980s,
leaving the Landsburg
company after seven years.
What do you like
least about your job?
"What I hate about the
business is that every-
thing is needed now . . .
You never have enough
time when you're shoot-
ing, and then the delivery time is tight.
That is the hate part of it, but I love that
too because it is like total adrenaline."
–Anne Grace
What do you love most
about your job?
"I love the unpredictability. Every job is
different--you've always got a different
hurdle to jump over." –Anne Grace
VOICES OF
EXPERIENCE
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