Susan Sprung
Credits: CEO, Producers Guild of America
SUSAN SPRUNG is the CEO of the Producers Guild of America, a nonprofit trade group that represents over 8400 producers working in film, television, and new media. Ms. Sprung has been with the PGA since 2012, where she began as Associate National Executive Director and COO. In her current position, she carries out the strategic goals of the Board and runs the day-to-day operations of the Guild. On behalf of the PGA, she sits on the Hollywood Commission Leadership Council, the California Film & Television Production Alliance, the Western Council of the Actors Fund, the NAACP Entertainment Advocacy Council, the FilmLA Government Affairs Committee, and formerly served on the AMPAS Members at Large Executive Committee.
Ms. Sprung previously served as Special Counsel at the law firm of O’Melveny and Myers in Los Angeles, where she specialized in general corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, large bank financings, private placements, and public offerings. Prior to that, she was an associate at Barrett Smith Shapiro Simon and Armstrong in New York. She also served as Corporate Counsel to TrizecHahn Corporation during the completion of the Hollywood and Highland project.
Ms. Sprung chaired the Board of Directors of the I Have a Dream Foundation, Los Angeles, on whose board she still sits. She served on the Board of Trustees of University Synagogue and the Advisory Board of the Got Your Six Campaign.
She graduated from the State University of New York at Albany, magna cum laude and from Boston University School of Law.
She and her husband have 2 children and reside in Los Angeles.