NEW YORK, USA // Over her 20+ year career, this EmmyTM Award winning Gen-X Femme has produced anddirected programming and content for the who’s who of the entertainment industry, workingwith the world’s biggest stars and on music and television’s biggest events including theSuper Bowl, the Oscars, the Grammys, the Emmys and New Year’s Eve Live.
Lebeau is a unique multi-hyphenate-talent whose varied experience makes her a unicorn ofsorts in the industry and which has served her well in the transmedia world of today. Shehas experience in radio, film and television; has produced and directed dozens of TV seriesand specials for a client roster that includes among others CBS, NBC, ABC, FOX, HBO,Disney, Netflix, VH1, Comedy Central, BBC, PBS, Sony, Universal, Paramount, and WarnerBrothers.
Her credits include broadcast live events, weekly series, strip series, and specialsranging in genre from music to comedy; her branding experience goes back to herbeginnings working with artist development and the record labels of Sony Music… not toexclude her particular affinity for documentaries.
Jennifer’s feature documentary work includes Bob Dylan, Trouble No More (2017) whichworld premiered at the New York Film Festival and had its international premiere at the RomeFilm Festival. Her documentary The Zen of Bennett (2012), holds the distinction as the veryfirst Netflix Original Program and had a theatrical release after premiering at the Tribeca FilmFestival. Her other documentaries include the internationally distributed and criticallyacclaimed The Harmony Game: The Making of Bridge Over Troubled Water (2011), CelebrityDetox (2007), and Taboo: an Ode to Attention Seekers (2004).
More than just a creative, Lebeau is an experienced executive and team leader. She beganher career at Sony Music in 1993 where she would become Executive Producer / Directorof Special Projects. In 2006, long-time collaborator Rosie O’Donnell asked Lebeau tobecome Senior Vice President of Production & Development at her KidRo Productions, afterwhich Jen decided the time had come to test out reality-television and she spent a seasonDancing with the Stars. In 2009, she returned to Sony Music joining its new joint-ventureMedia Push Entertainment as Vice President, Production & Development.
Jennifer received her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, Annenberg School ofCommunication; is a member of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences,Producers Guild of America, Director’s Guild of America and Women in Film & TV.