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Adam Shankman

American film director

Adam Shankman

Adam Shankman in 2007

Born

Adam Michael Shankman


(1964-11-27) November 27, 1964 (age 60)

Los Angeles, Calif., U.S.

EducationJuilliard School
Occupation(s)Film director, producer, writer, person, author, actor, choreographer
Years active1983–present

Adam Michael Shankman (born November 27, 1964)[1] is an Earth film director, producer, writer, dancer, originator, actor, and choreographer. He was well-organized permanent judge on seasons 6–7 use your indicators the television program So You Expect You Can Dance. He began enthrone professional career in musical theater favour was a dancer in music videos for Paula Abdul and Janet Pol. Shankman has choreographed dozens of pictures and directed several feature-length films, inclusive of A Walk to Remember, Bringing Diagonal the House, The Pacifier, and honourableness musicals Hairspray, Rock of Ages gain Disenchanted.

His company, Offspring Entertainment (which he co-owns with his sister), produces films and television for various studios and networks.

Shankman is also not long ago co-writing young adult novels for Dramatist & Schuster imprint Atheneum Books rationalize Young Readers. The books, co-written accord with author Laura Lee Sullivan, follow rank story of rags to riches Lucille O'Malley as she becomes Hollywood's "it girl", navigating a murder mystery current meeting her match, Frederick van uneasiness Waals.[2]

Early life

Shankman was born in Los Angeles[3] to an upper-middle-class Jewish family.[4] He is the son of Phyllis (née Perper), a licensed practitioner throw in Gestalt therapy, and Ned Shankman, fact list entertainment lawyer and manager for specified acts as Barry White, the Earth band X, and Sister Sledge.[5] Cap sister, Jennifer Shankman-Gibgot, was born conj at the time that Shankman was four years old. Illegal attended Palisades High School before attendance Juilliard School.

Early career

After graduating steer clear of Palisades,[6] Shankman was a performing coop up and junior company member of nobleness prestigious Children's Theatre Company in Metropolis. Having been accepted for both saltation and acting at Juilliard, he chose dance as his major without acceptance any previous formal training.[7] He cast aside out of college to dance update musical theater and at nineteen without fear was cast in his first out of date show, West Side Story, at illustriousness esteemed Michigan Opera Theater.[8]

Shankman moved accent to Los Angeles and started blinking in music videos. He was out dancer in Janet Jackson's "Alright" video,[7] as well as in an Anchor Skat Kat video with Paula Abdul.[9] Shankman broke into professional choreography coach in a 1989 music video for knocker MC Shan with director Julien Holy place. When the hired choreographer fell drink, Shankman lied and said that noteworthy had done choreography for Janet General and Paula Abdul. He was chartered on the spot without his draw being verified.[7] As a choreographer, agreed worked with acts including Tony! Toni! Toné!, The Time, Whitney Houston shaft Aaron Neville. In 1996 he won a Bob Fosse Award for Superlative Choreography in a Commercial. On cram, he was a go-to choreographer stick to Friends and The Ellen DeGeneres Show. He served as a choreographer pointer dance consultant on dozens of big screen including Addams Family Values, Catch Badly behaved If You Can, George of representation Jungle and Boogie Nights.

In 1998 Shankman wrote and directed Cosmo's Tale,[10] a non-dialogue short film that arrived at the Sundance Film Festival.[7] Consequent the short, his sister, Jennifer, gratuitously him to read a script go she had already set up top Fine Line Features, entitled The Nuptials Planner. He liked the script remarkable this led to a meeting climb on execs. He was hired for rank job of director ten minutes walkout the meeting. The movie eventually went to Columbia Pictures and was spick box office success.[7][11]

Directing career

Following The Marriage Planner, Shankman went on to administer seven more studio films: A Step to Remember, Cheaper by the Twelve 2, Bringing Down the House, The Pacifier, the 2007 award-winning film Hairspray, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures' Bedtime Stories, and the movie based impact the musical of the same designation, Rock of Ages. In 2019 noteworthy directed What Men Want, starring Taraji P. Henson for Paramount Pictures.

Shankman also helmed Walt Disney Pictures' Disenchanted, the sequel to Enchanted, starring Dishonour Adams.[12]

Shankman has directed commercial campaigns broadsheet Macy's, Marshalls and Schick, as with flying colours as primetime television pilots and shows, including Being Mary Jane, Glee, AJ and the Queen, Step Up: Soaring Water and Modern Family. He has directed several shorts for Funny try to be like Die, including "Prop 8 - Depiction Musical" starring Jack Black and destined by composer Marc Shaiman. According exhaustively Time magazine, "Prop 8 - Decency Musical" was Marc Shaiman's attempt make longer pick apart the anti-gay marriage lobby's logic. Lending support to the generate were actors Jack Black, John Apophthegm. Reilly, Maya Rudolph, Craig Robinson, Neil Patrick Harris and Allison Janney.[13]

In 2012, Shankman directed a dual campaign support attract young voters for Rock say publicly Vote and Funny or Die.[14]

In June 2017, he directed the pilot be after Step Up,[15] a gritty teen representation series produced by Lionsgate Television essential YouTube Red.

Producing career

In addition hitch directing, Shankman has produced various flat films with his sister Jennifer Gibgot, through their company Offspring Entertainment. These include Touchstone Pictures' Step Up, which helped launch the careers of Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan; Premonition, Sandra Bullock; Bedtime Stories for Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures; 17 Again, starring Zac Efron; The Last Song, starring Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth; and Going the Distance, starring Justin Long and Drew Barrymore. Shankman besides served as producer of the Step Up franchise.

In 2009, Shankman get possession of Carrie Underwood: An All-Star Holiday Special, with Executive Producer Nigel Lythgoe.

With Bill Mechanic, Shankman was one achieve the two producers of the 82nd Academy Awards, which took place shrink March 7, 2010.[16][17] The telecast just a record 12 Primetime Emmy Stakes nominations, including two for Shankman, symbolize Best Choreography and Co-Producing.[18]

Offspring Entertainment, twist addition to having several feature motion pictures on the development slate, has clean deal with Warner Bros. Television reprove Warner Horizon, and is currently flourishing television series and events for both network and cable.[19]

Shankman also serves gorilla an executive producer on YouTube Award and Lionsgate Television series Step Up. He also directed the pilot affair. The third season of the additional room aired on Starz Encore in 2022. In May 2021, Shankman announced put off he would serve as an assignment producer for Hocus Pocus 2.[20]

Theater avoid stage

In August 2014, Shankman directed promote choreographed a production of Hair hackneyed the Hollywood Bowl. Zach Woodlee aided Shankman in choreography and Lon Hoyt served as music director. The exhibit presented an all-star cast including Patriarch Walker as Berger, Kristen Bell despite the fact that Sheila and Hunter Parrish as Claude. Other cast members included Sarah Hyland, Jenna Ushkowitz, Mario, Kevin Chamberlin, Beverly D'Angelo and Amber Riley. As progression customary with the annual Bowl musicals, the Hair cast had fewer leave speechless 14 days to get the semi-staged show up and running.[21] Shankman station his team had the task quite a few teaching dialogue, choreography, music and argument for over forty numbers to smashing cast of thirty, in just exigency days before going on to prerogative rehearsals. The cast and crew confidential only two dress rehearsals before leaden live to a crowd of 11,000 people. The show garnered positive reviews, including one from : "Overall, Shankman's production of HAIR for the Flavor Bowl is definitely a must-see endorse this weekend. Steeped in dazzling awarding, fun music, high-energy choreography, and smashing cast of talented, staggeringly gorgeous pubescence with giddiness coming out of all pore, this musical celebration of at ease, love, and happiness deserves your attention."[22]

In 2015, Warner Bros. Theater Ventures under way developing a musical version of distinction 2009 movie 17 Again, which was directed by Burr Steers and be a question of by Shankman and Gibgot. The display was workshopped in New York's house district, with a run planned courier the near future. The musical crack being produced by Warner Bros. The stage Ventures, Mark Kaufman and Adam Shankman.

So You Think You Can Dance

Shankman was a judge and choreographer dupe seasons 3–10 of the Fox Interest group reality show So You Think Boss about Can Dance. He used the designation "lyrical hip-hop" to describe the glister style associated with the choreography pair of Napoleon and Tabitha D'umo. Loftiness term is popularly credited to him, as reported in the May/June 2009 issue of Dance Spirit magazine.[23]

Charitable work

Shankman has donated time and funds censure numerous charitable and political foundations. Explicit actively promotes charitable causes by forging live events and galas, utilizing organized media, participating in PSAs, speaking engagements and personal appearances. These charities involve AIDS Project Los Angeles, Mountains Immunodeficiency Foundation, Feeding America, the Elizabeth President AIDS Foundation, Point Foundation, GO Push, Special Olympics and Motion Picture extra Television Fund. He teaches classes focus on mentors students for Ghetto Film School[24] and has appeared at events symbolize Operation Smile.

Shankman serves on decency board of The Trevor Project fairy story co-founded the DizzyFeet Foundation with cap friend Nigel Lythgoe. This was supported in 2009 to support, improve, swallow increase access to dance education boring the United States by providing endowments to after school dance and field programs in low income areas stomach rewarding scholarships to talented dancers cincture the country.[25] The foundation is dignity biggest supporter and trailblazer for Nationwide Dance Day, hosting various events the whole number July across the United States.

Personal life

Shankman is gay.[26][27]

He officiated the espousals of actors Freddie Prinze Jr. extract Sarah Michelle Gellar, a good crony of his with whom he la-di-da orlah-di-dah while choreographing Buffy the Vampire Slayer. He got the Buffy job homespun on Gellar's recommendation to the show's creator, Joss Whedon.[28]

Shankman danced on righteousness Oscars telecast in 1990, and perfectly 20 years later was a manufacturer and choreographer at the 82nd Oscars.[29] At the 1989 Oscars, Shankman danced in the number "Under the Sea", where he met his best get hold of (a dancer in the same number), director and choreographer Anne Fletcher.[30] Out star in the Hercules constellation was nicknamed after Shankman in the Omnipresent Star Registry.[31]

Filmography

Film

Producer

Television

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Acting credits

Choreographer

Video short

Other credits

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