KAREN BALDWIN
Producer

As Senior Executive Vice President of Creative Affairs for Baldwin Entertainment Group, KAREN BALDWIN has been involved in many different aspects of the entertainment business. Her diversity of experience makes her a well-rounded executive with a unique awareness of each component of the industry.

Baldwin attended Holy Cross and Wellesley, graduating Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in psychology. She began her career in the field of professional sports as the Assistant All-Star coordinator for the 1986 NHL All Star game hosted by the Hartford Whalers and went on to write and co-host her own local sports-oriented talk show, “Ahead of the Game”

A move to Los Angeles with her husband in the 1990s provided her the opportunity to pursue an interest developed in high school and college – an acting career. As an actress, Baldwin’s credits include roles in Blue Grass, Spellbinder, Sudden Death and Eyewitness to a Murder, as well as numerous other film and television guest appearances. Having enjoyed a fair amount of success as an actress, Baldwin turned her interest to writing, which soon became her focus. She created several concepts for films and had them produced. Among her writing credits are Redline, Hot, Eyewitness to a Murder, Seeing Red and Sudden Death.

Karen and Howard Baldwin subsequently formed Baldwin/Cohen Entertainment with Richard Cohen, where she became involved with the development and producing end of the business and served as Vice President of Creative Affairs. During her tenure at Baldwin/Cohen, she helped develop and produce films such as Sudden Death, Resurrection, Gideon and Mystery, Alaska.

Due to the death of partner Richard Cohen, the Baldwins then formed a partnership with Philip Anschutz to create Crusader Entertainment. As Executive Vice President of Creative Affairs for Crusader, Karen Baldwin was involved with the day-to-day running of the company as well as the development and production of eight films in three years: Joshua, Children on Their Birthdays, A Sound of Thunder, Game of Their Lives, Danny Deckchair, Swimming Upstream, Ray and Sahara.

In 2004 the Baldwins formed their own independent development and production company, Baldwin Entertainment Group. With numerous projects in various stages of development, Karen Baldwin’s goal is to work with talent (writers, directors and actors) in a highly collaborative fashion to develop quality scripts that will resonate with the public.