At Barn Burner, we strive to create dynamic entertainment in a humane and safe environment. We believe that people need to be supported and valued in their work. Setting a positive tone across the board gives every show a chance to not only be successful and profitable but to be an enriching experience for the people who make it happen, from the creators, writers, directors and actors to the technicians and crew.
Blair Breard created Barn Burner Entertainment after two decades of working her way up in the industry from unpaid intern to UPM, Line Producer, and Creative Producer. This full-service production operation uniquely utilizes Breard’s years of experience, professional relationships, and deep commitment to hands-on, focused and efficient production.
M. BLAIR BREARD is an Executive Producer with over 25 years of experience in the film and television industry.
She has guided groundbreaking concepts into award-winning television and has successfully negotiated the business end of television and film projects, while protecting and executing a specific creative vision.
Breard has been nominated for industry awards multiple times: six Primetime Emmys; five Director’s Guild Awards; two Producer’s Guild Awards; two American Film Institute Awards; three Peabody’s; Two Gotham Awards.
She has produced for FX, Netflix, Fox Searchlight, Paramount, Max, Apple TV+ and developed with Showtime, FX, Hulu and others.
She began her career in the world of independent filmmaking with John Sayles’ Passion Fish. She has worked on and produced critically acclaimed films including I Shot Andy Warhol, written and directed by Mary Harron (nominated for Sundance and Independent Spirit awards); Margaret, written and directed by Kenneth Longeran; Margot at the Wedding, written and directed by Noah Baumbach (nominated for Independent Spirit and Gotham awards); She served as Executive Producer for The Drop, directed by Academy Award nominee Michael Roskam. She produced The Half of It with Anthony Bregman of Likely Story for Netflix, written and directed by Alice Wu, which went on to win the Tribeca Film Festival.
Notably, Breard recently produced Scenes from a Marriage for HBO with Michael Ellenberg of Media Res, starring Jessica Chastain and Oscar Isaac, written and directed by Hagai Levi. She recently Executive Produced the Emmy award-nominated final season of The Other Two for Max starring Molly Shannon, Wanda Sykes, Drew Tarver and Helene Yorke written and directed by Chris Kelly and Sarah Schneider. She is currently Executive Producing a new Apple TV + limited series, The Savant, starring Jessica Chastain written by Melissa James Gibson and directed by Matthew Heineman and Rachel Morrison.
She developed and Executive Produced While You Were Breeding, with Kristin Newman, (Only Murders in the Building, That 70’s Show) based on her best-selling memoir “What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding”.
Breard’s home base is New York City. She works all over the world.
Breard is repped at CAA and by Tom Collier of Sloan Offer Weber Dern.
