Jonathan Baker

Jonathan Baker is a two-time Emmy-nominated producer most known for independent feature films: The Dutchman (Relativity Media), starring Kate Mara, André Holland, Zazie Beetz, Aldis Hodge, and Stephen McKinley Henderson, premiered at SXSW 2025; The Knife (Relativity Media) starring Nnamdi Asomugha and Oscar Winner Melissa Leo which premiered at Tribeca 2024; Sylvie’s Love (Amazon Studios) starring Tessa Thompson, Nnamdi Asomugha, and Eva Longoria; The Banker (Apple+), starring Samuel L. Jackson, Anthony Mackie, and Nicholas Hoult, directed by George Nolfi; Crown Heights (Amazon Studios), staring LaKeith Stanfield, Audience Award winner at Sundance; and Emmy-nominated documentary The One and Only Dick Gregory (Showtime) which premiered at Tribeca. Jonathan most recently directed and Executive Produced MSNBC Films’ GLAAD-nominated documentary Serving in Secret featuring Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, Secretary Pete Buttigieg, and Rachel Maddow. He is currently in post-production on the documentary Hola Mama about trafficked babies during the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile. He is a member of the PGA.

On stage, Jonathan produced the national tour of Spamalot and the adaptations of the movies August Rush and The Harder They Come at The Public Theatre.

Before producing independently, Jonathan served as Marketing Manager at Sony Pictures Entertainment, where he worked on many wide-release theatrical films, including 10 that reached #1 at the box office. Some of note include Adaptation (dir. Spike Jonze), Big Fish (dir. Tim Burton), Lords of Dogtown (dir. Catherine Hardwicke), Underworld 1 & 2 (dir. Len Wiseman), Stomp the Yard, Premonition, Resident Evil 2 & 3, Silent Hill, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Oliver Twist (dir. Roman Polanski), Running with Scissors (dir. Ryan Murphy), and Closer (dir. Mike Nichols). Prior to film, he served as a research analyst for Sony’s International and Domestic Television departments.

Before Sony, he lived in New York and worked on Broadway at the Nederlander Producing Company of America and on Wall Street at Salomon Brothers, Asset Management.

Jonathan is a classically trained musician and has been a vocal and performance coach for many stars. He has also been an Adjunct Professor of film economics at Carnegie Mellon and the University of Bologna for seventeen years. As an artist, some might know him from the stoner-comedy Manifest Destiny Down: Spacetime.

Jonathan attended the University of Michigan School of Music musical theatre program, where he directed Tony winner Gavin Creel in Company. He performed in 42^nd Street, The Most Happy Fella, Burn This, Hair!, Closer Than Ever, directed Crazy for You, and assistant directed The Music Man, also starring Gavin Creel. He acted in Thank You for Not Smoking, a short film that premiered at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival. Jonathan also studied acting and directing at UCLA Extension with the once-infamous Don Richardson.