John Schreiber joined Participant Media in January 2007 as Executive Vice President, Social Action & Advocacy, where he is responsible for managing the creation, development and execution of unique social action and advocacy campaigns for each Participant film.  These campaigns are designed to inspire citizen action, awareness, education, and legislative advocacy. In 2010, John and his colleagues will develop, produce and manage more than two dozen unique social action campaigns for Participant’s films.



Termed “a visionary producer” by The New York Times, John’s career has encompassed award winning theater, television, concerts, festivals, documentary film, branded entertainment, and a host of other cultural and cause-related events.


His creator and producer credits include the nationwide KOOL and JVC Jazz Festivals, the Newport Jazz Festival, the weekly television concert series Hard Rock Live (VH-1), the Benson & Hedges Blues Festivals, the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor (PBS), the New Yorker Literary and Arts Festival, the American Express Gold Card Grammy Festival, and, with the trumpeter and composer Wynton Marsalis, the Harman: How to Listen music education program. 
He received Emmy and Tony Awards as producer of the Broadway and HBO hit Elaine Stritch At Liberty.


For General Colin Powell, he produced The President's Summit for America's Future, a multi-day event that inaugurated the America's Promise volunteer effort, plus the companion Fox network special Keeping America's Promise. For the Chinese government, he produced the New York cultural exhibition A Close Look at China. 


He created, developed and was lead producer of the multi-media musical George C. Wolfe's Harlem Song, which ran for six months at Harlem’s legendary Apollo Theater and was lauded for the economic impact it delivered to Upper Manhattan.
 


John curated and produced Carnegie Hall's American Popular Song celebration for seven years, as well as the Kennedy Center's annual Open House multi-cultural festival. He produced Santana: The Celebration for the Grammy Foundation at Universal Amphitheater and Carole King: Making Music with Friends at Madison Square Garden for People Magazine's 25th anniversary. He produced America’s largest comedy celebration, the Toyota Comedy Festival in New York, for 10 years, and developed the Marshall’s Women In Comedy Festivals. He has been a producer of gala events at the White House for every President since Jimmy Carter.
 


He has developed and produced cause-related entertainment marketing programs for the American Museum of Natural History, National Public Radio, Partnership for A Drug Free America, Children's Television Workshop, Comedy Central, Bravo, the Juilliard School, the New York Pops, the Songwriter's Hall of Fame, General Mills, Loew's Corporation, Miller Brewing Company, Altria, Pilot Pen, Mellon Bank, and the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts.



John is on the national board of First Book, which provides hundreds of thousands of books to children in need across America each year. He is an honorary board member of the S.L.E. Foundation, which provides research and support for people with Lupus.
John agrees with Al Gore, who said: “The will to act is a renewable resource.”