Tara Sickmeier

Tony Award-nominated producer, story creator, writer, director, and entrepreneur. Experience with over 100+ productions across film, television, stage, music, and advertising with a combined gross of over $5B.

Produced, developed, or served on the Tony Award-nominated Best Musical (The Great Comet), Academy Award-winning Best Picture (Spotlight), Academy Award-winning Best Picture (The Social Network), Multi-Golden Globe, Emmy Award-nominated series (American Horror Story) and (The Walking Dead), Multi-Emmy Award-nominated competition program (American Idol), and the highest-grossing British horror film of the last 20 years (The Woman in Black).

Sickmeier is the CEO of Meraki, an independent entertainment media company that creates, acquires, and produces content across multiple sectors. Content rooted in truth and soul expansion with a strong storytelling focus on females, diversity, or the unheard. Meraki’s team includes Multi-Emmy Award-winning producers Jane Startz and Kane Lee.

This year, Sickmeier produced the 3x Tony Award-nominated Broadway musical Lempicka with director Rachel Chavkin (Hadestown, The Great Comet). On the producer team with Brad Pitt’s Plan B and writer Tony Kushner’s series, He Wanted the Moon, an Untitled feature film with Cross Creek Pictures, another Untitled feature film with EP Paul Schrader and HanWay Films, and writer/producer to the feature film Stuck, an adapted screenplay from Gracie Award-winning showrunner Jessica Goldberg with brand partner, Bring Change 2 Mind, a mental health organization owned by Glenn Close.

Led production/marketing for music management and production company 600 Volt owned by Multi-Grammy Award-winning music producer Glenn Rosenstein and AdAge “Media Maven” Craig Woerz. Chief Business Development Officer to StarMetrics, an AI SaaS analytics platform that measures talent and content for entertainment. Member of the Stars Collective a diversity program with access to a $100M production film fund. Advisory Council to the global media agency Media Storm. Member of Women In Film and the Producers Guild of America.