Our Team

Julie Crosby

Co-Founder & Lead Career Coach

Julie is a producer of stories on stages and screens of all sizes, with budgets ranging from minuscule to $10+ million. Regardless of scope, Julie provides strategic insight and guidance across project development, financing, production, distribution and marketing

Julie is a Founding Partner of Cromono International, a production services company with offices in New York, Paris and Taipei. With partners Philippe Mongay and Edouard Flamans, Cromono has collectively garnered 300+ credits in theater, concerts, digital media and films.

Julie holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University. She was previously honored with the Lilly Award for Outstanding Producer and named to Forbes’ 40 Over 40 Women to Watch list. Her sci-fi feature, Alien Intervention, is now streaming on Amazon Prime, Tubi, Apple, etc. Her musical feature, Original Sound, is now in post production.

Photo by Charles Chessler

Jane Applegate

Co-Founder

Jane is a veteran producer of television and film projects. She teaches at the Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema at Brooklyn College and provides production consulting for many other producers and creative collaborators.

Jane is the executive producer of Remarkable Women: Out of the Shadows, an global episodic series featuring stories about accomplished women behind the success of iconic men around the world. The series received development funding from Creative Europe.

Jane is a member of the Producers Guild of America. Prior to becoming a producer, she was a financial reporter and syndicated small business columnist for the Los Angeles Times. She’s the author of four books on small business management. Her fifth book, Hair on Fire: An Insider’s Guide to Producing for the Big and Small Screen is available in paperback and Kindle format on Amazon.