Don Mischer Productions

Don Mischer

Don Mischer is an internationally acclaimed producer and director of television and live events. He has been honored with fifteen Emmy Awards, a record ten Directors Guild of America Awards for Outstanding Directorial Achievement, two NAACP Image Awards, a Peabody Award for excellence in broadcasting, and Europe's prestigious Golden Rose of Montreux.

As a producer/director, his credits range from We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial, The Kennedy Center Honors, and the 100th Anniversary of Carnegie Hall; to the Super Bowl Halftime Shows (Prince, The Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney and Bruce Springsteen), the Democratic National Convention, Events Celebrating Hong Kong’s re-unification with China, and the Opening Ceremonies of both the Winter and Summer Olympic Games.

Don has also produced specials with Beyonce, Sting, Jennifer Hudson, Willie Nelson, James Taylor, Yo Yo Ma, Stevie Wonder, Bono, Garth Brooks, Elton John, Justin Timberlake, Barbra Streisand, The Black Eyed Peas, and Carrie Underwood, among others.

He has received the Governors Award from the National Association of Choreographers and is a member of the Event Industry Hall of Fame, the Producers Guild of America, the Directors Guild of America, and the National Academy of Television, Arts, and Sciences, where he has served two terms on the Board of Governors.

Don's long and illustrious body of work ranks among the best and most watched in the world of entertainment.

Charlie Haykel

Since moving to Los Angeles over seventeen years ago, Charlie Haykel has learned from some of the greatest talents in the entertainment and media worlds.

In his association with Don Mischer Productions, Haykel produced the acclaimed HBO special, “We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial”, the “61st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards,” starring Neil Patrick Harris and the Super Bowl XXXIX and XL Halftime Shows (Paul McCartney and the Rolling Stones), as well as the 2004 Democratic Convention.

In addition, Charlie has executive produced the 2007 Miss America Pageant, Moving Image Salutes Will Smith and BRAVO’s 2008 A-List Awards. Other producing credits include NBC’s series The Singing Bee, ABC’s The Wayne Brady Show, and numerous specials including Movies Rock, Fashion Rocks, John Leguizamo’s Sexaholix, Christmas in Washington and The Tony Awards.

Haykel also had the pleasure of being on the producing teams for the millennium documentary by Steven Spielberg titled The Unfinished Journey and the independent feature films Bad City Blues and Ring Girls.

Juliane Hare

Juliane joined Don Mischer Productions in 1996, moving to Los Angeles from Washington, D.C. She has worked on the Atlanta and Salt Lake City Olympic Ceremonies, the Opening Ceremonies of the Special Olympics in Shanghai, five Emmy telecasts, as well as the Super Bowl XXXIX, XL, and XLI Pre-Game and Halftime Shows. She was also a producer on Movies Rock, Fashion Rocks, the 2007 Miss America Pageant and Moving Image Salutes Will Smith.

In 2009, she received a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children’s Series as a producer of the PBS series “From the Top at Carnegie Hall.”

In addition to working on DMP’s various productions, Juliane also develops new projects for the company.