Joanna understands the challenges creatives face.
Joanna Zippel and Zip Creative provide career coaching and development, helping artists in the entertainment industry strategically and authentically develop their career, their life, and their projects to produce the remarkable work of their vision.
Additionally, through Zip Productions, Joanna works in collaboration with other production companies and individual producers and actively seeks co-production, financing, publishing, and distribution opportunities.
Joanna Zippel
Producer, Manager, and Creative Coach Founder of ZipCreative
Current Projects
Producer of Director Kerstin Karlhuber’s drama Rear View Mirrors, written by Jack Bryant. It stars Erika Christensen, Penelope Ann Miller, Kiara Muhammad, David James Elliott, Zach Gilford, Mike O’Malley, and Sierra McCormick. Wrapped principal photography in Austin, Texas. Currently in Post Production.
Executive Producer of the award-winning romantic comedy Bite Me by Writer-Actor-Producer Naomi McDougall Jones. Starring Jones, Christian Coulson, Naomi Grossman, and Annie Golden.
Following its 2019 Cinequest premiere and winning Best Feature Film at VTXIFF, Bite Me received a ground-breaking release in the form of a 51-screening, 40-city, 3-month, RV-fueled Joyful Vampire Tour of America in 2019. Bite Me was released digitally all over the world in 2022, and it is currently available on Amazon, ITunes, Vudu, and Google Play. To learn more about the film, visit bitemethefilm.com.Represents the English translation of the Batchelder award-winning Cry, Heart, But Never Break by acclaimed Danish author Glenn Ringtved and translated by American author and playwright Robert Moulthrop. The book is available on Amazon.
Experience
25+ years as a producer, manager, creative career coach, and entrepreneur in the entertainment industry, working with hundreds of artists.
Creative Career Coach for New York Women In Film and Television (NYWIFT)
Founder of Advance Entertainment New York, the first exclusive marketing service for commercial theatre representing more than 300 Broadway & Off-Broadway shows and other entertainment events, including such hits as Titanic, Rent, Tommy, How to Succeed in Business…, Smokey Joe’s Cafe, Guys and Dolls, Crazy for You, City of Angels, M. Butterfly, Stomp, Driving Miss Daisy, Steel Magnolias, Other People’s Money, and Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding.
Entertainment marketing and promotional consultant for Broadway and Off-Broadway theatre productions, including such shows as Paula Vogel’s Pulitzer Prize-winning How I Learned to Drive, The Goodbye Girl, David Ives’ All in the Timing, Charles Busch’s You Should Be So Lucky, The Drowsy Chaperone and The Pirate Queen.
Interviews
For more on Joanna’s background, connect with her on LinkedIn.
