Lisa Henson

CEO & President at The Jim Henson Company

As CEO and President, Lisa Henson oversees all television and feature film production, from early development through post-production. Lisa most recently executive produced the Emmy®-winning Netflix series The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance. Other credits include the Netflix Originals Word Party and Julie’s Greenroom, and the Emmy-nominated PBS® series Splash and Bubbles and Dinosaur Train. She is currently executive producing the upcoming Harriet the Spy and Fraggle Rock series for AppleTV+ and is in production on Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio for Netflix. She is also developing the highly anticipated sequel to the classic fantasy film Labyrinth.

Lisa’s feature credits include Sony Pictures Animation’s The Star, Disney’s Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, as well as MirrorMask, The Muppets’ Wizard of Oz, Good Boy!, and Henson Alternative’s The Happytime Murders.

Prior to her current position, Lisa was President of Columbia Pictures where she oversaw a string of critical and commercial successes including Little Women (1994), Immortal Beloved, and Ang Lee’s Oscar®-winning Sense and Sensibility. Before joining Columbia Pictures, Lisa served as an executive at Warner Bros. for ten years.

Lisa graduated summa cum laude with a degree in Folklore and Mythology from Harvard University, where she was the first female president of The Harvard Lampoon.

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  • CEO & President

    Current role

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