Movie Exec Jason Fisher on the Next Phase of the Film & TV Industry
Here's The Thing with Alec Baldwin
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4.3 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Jason Fisher is an award-winning producer, former studio executive, and founder of StageRunner. As former Head of Production at Disney+, Paramount, AMC Networks, and First Look Media, Fisher oversaw production on prestige series such as Breaking Bad, Mad Men, The Mandalorian, and The Walking Dead and helped shape some of the most influential film and television projects of the past two decades. Originally from Connecticut, Jason graduated from Tulane University with degrees in Architecture and Fine Arts before driving cross-country to Los Angeles with dreams of becoming a production designer. This ultimately led him on an unexpected path from production assistant to freelance producer to one of Hollywood’s top production executives. Currently, Jason is the CEO and Founder of StageRunner, a rapidly growing global soundstage marketplace and media platform connecting more than 850 studios across six continents. StageRunner is also a growing media company providing daily coverage of the latest production news, virtual production infrastructure, and the AI technologies reshaping how content gets made. In this conversation, Jason reflects on his unlikely career path, the evolution of prestige television, and the forces reshaping the entertainment industry today.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.2 | This is Alec Baldwin, |
| 0:08.0 | and you're listening to Here's the Thing from IHeart Radio. |
| 0:12.7 | What do Breaking Bad, Mad Men, the Mandalorian, and the Walking Dead have in common? |
| 0:19.5 | Other than being landmark shows in the era of prestige television, |
| 0:24.1 | all of those productions were overseen by my guest today. |
| 0:28.7 | Jason Fisher is an award-winning producer, |
| 0:31.5 | former studio executive, |
| 0:33.4 | and the founder and CEO of Stage Runner, |
| 0:36.1 | a burgeoning soundstage marketplace and media platform for studios and soundstages worldwide. |
| 0:43.3 | Originally from Connecticut, Jason Fisher graduated from Tulane University in 1994 with a degree in architecture and fine arts. |
| 0:52.3 | After college, he packed up his portfolio and drove cross-country to |
| 0:56.7 | Los Angeles with dreams of becoming a production designer. I wanted to know how Jason's path |
| 1:02.6 | shifted from architecture student to one of the top production executives in Hollywood. |
| 1:08.4 | Yeah, so I went down to Tulane with the plan of becoming an architect. |
| 1:13.5 | Always loved film and television. And when I finished architecture school, one thing I realized |
| 1:20.6 | was I didn't want to be an architect. My roommate from college wanted to be a TV writer. |
| 1:26.8 | And I knew at least that I wanted to take a year and just kind of figure it out. |
| 1:30.3 | All of my friends were going to New York. |
| 1:33.3 | Many of them were going to work in finance. |
| 1:35.3 | I didn't want anything to do with that. |
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