Biography

Jonathan Sebastien is a graduate of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He has worked steadily in daytime television since graduating and produced in the entertainment field in Los Angeles, Chicago and Louisiana. He has been nominated seven times for a Daytime Emmy Award for Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros. productions. Sebastien was the Senior Producer of the Judge Judy court television program, which landed him five Daytime Emmy nominations at Paramount Pictures. He spent nine years producing for Paramount. In June 2011, he earned his sixth Daytime Emmy nomination for Judge Jeanine Pirro, produced by Telepictures, a Time- Warner Company. The following year, he garnished his first Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Legal/Courtroom Program for the same program. Currently, he is producing for the Judge Greg Mathis television court program for Warner Bros. He is a Member of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and has conquered other syndicated credits including Paramount's The Leeza Gibbons Talk Show, MTV's Loveline, Warner Bros.' Jenny Jones Show, Comedy Central, and assisted in the 1998 Primetime Emmy Awards show. After relocating from Los Angeles to Louisiana and helped produce the film version of the R. L. Stine series Mostly Ghostly starring Ali Lohan that was released through Disney. Sebastien partnered his True South Entertainment Company with Promotion Pictures, owned by film producer Steve Stabler. Stabler's credits include Dumb & Dumber starring Jim Carry and Kingpin starring Woody Harrelson. Sebastien teamed with Stabler's Commotion Pictures to produce the film Mostly Ghostly, which was released by Disney in 2009. He was owner/partner in Maxim Entertainment, which produced the independent horror film, The Zombie Farm, which was released in March 2011 on DVD through Maya Entertainment and distributed via Amazon.com, Netflix and On-Demand. Recently, he co-executive produced and starred in his own reality television pilot based on his own Louisiana family following his twelve siblings who conquer the daily struggles and pleasures of Louisiana life, hard work, family, food and culture. Sebastien is active in entertainment development whether in Louisiana, Los Angeles or Chicago.
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