Ellen Scherer Crafts
Ellen has over twenty years' experience in entertainment production. She started her career producing live concert events for headline entertainment like Paul McCartney, Diana Ross, and Kenny Rogers, while simultaneously producing boxing co-productions with HBO and Telemundo for Caesar's Entertainment. She went on to prominent roles in promotion and marketing for branded content with Fortune 100 companies internationally, regularly managing productions with budgets upwards of ten million. Ellen co-founded Macrocosm Entertainment®, helping to market the original story world Lantern City® published by Boom Studios in 2015, and co-created the original children's property The Not-So Secret Society™, published by KaBoom in 2016. Ellen recently produced the Focal Award winning, and Critics Choice nominated *Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street *(2021), which premiered at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival and is Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes with 95% critics and audience rating. In 2017 Ellen produced the largest event and march in US History, as a founder and producer of the Women's March Los Angeles. As a dedicated activist, Ellen has been recognized by the City of Hollywood, and both the County and City of Los Angeles for her work in women's rights.