Lisa Henson is the CEO of The Jim Henson Company, overseeing all television and feature film production from early development to post-production. As a producer, she has worked on critically acclaimed projects such as Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio for Netflix, which won an Oscar, and the feature film The Portable Door for MGM+, as well as the Emmy-winning Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock and Harriet the Spy, both for Apple TV+.
Lisa's television credits include the Emmy-winning series The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance and the popular Word Party, both for Netflix, as well as the Emmy-nominated PBS KIDS series Sid the Science Kid, Dinosaur Train, and Splash and Bubbles.
Her feature credits include Sony Pictures Animation's The Star, Disney's Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, and other films such as MirrorMask, The Muppets' Wizard of Oz, Good Boy!, and Henson Alternative's The Happytime Murders. She is currently developing the highly anticipated sequel to the classic fantasy film Labyrinth, and The Conductors in partnership with Queen Latifah's Flavor Unit Entertainment.
Prior to becoming CEO of The Jim Henson Company, Lisa was President of Columbia Pictures, where she oversaw a string of critical and commercial successes including Little Women (1994),Immortal Beloved, and Ang Lee's Oscar-winning Sense and Sensibility. Before joining Columbia Pictures, Lisa served as an executive at Warner Bros. for ten years.
Lisa was born in Washington, DC and grew up in Greenwich, CT and Westchester Country, NY. She graduated summa cum laude with a degree in Folklore and Mythology from Harvard University, where she was the first female president of The Harvard Lampoon.
