Paul Waterman

Paul Waterman is the founder and chief executive officer of Cosmic Screen, LLC, a global production company that specializes in original entertainment programming for digital media platforms, film, television and music. Paul has produced a large body of live and studio music productions, ranging from his work with NBC’s ‘Saturday Night Live’ and ‘Late Night with David Letterman’ to productions with Showtime and pay-per-view events with the Rolling Stones. He is regarded as one of the industry’s premier performance rights negotiators, and has expanded this expertise into new media production rights management. As supervising producer, Paul has helped orchestrate live studio recording sessions, soundtracks, film, theatrical, and musical stage events at such diverse venues as The White House and the Metropolitan Opera, as well as network television and film studios. He has worked with a diverse range of musical artists, including Marvin Hamlisch, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Elton John, Lionel Ritchie, Joe Jackson, Art Blakey, Chick Corea, Andrea Boccelli and Dave Brubeck, among others. As a special-event producer, Paul has worked on noteworthy blockbuster shows for the Rolling Stones’ 1989 ‘Steel Wheels’ tour at New York’s Shea Stadium; organized the famous 1990 Midnight Oil Earth Day Concert (staged from a flatbed truck on New York’s Sixth Avenue, across from Radio City Music Hall for a long-form video), and created and produced the successful South Street Seaport Concert Series (later the Parliament Sound Series), a free outdoor series of concerts on New York’s Pier 17 that consistently attracted more than 80,000 spectators. Paul is a national board delegate to the Producers Guild of America New Media Council. Specialties: Original entertainment programming for digital media platforms, Film, television, music and new media property development, Technical consulting services for studios, broadcasters, and telecom operators