SAG Awards® and Silent House Productions Partner Again to Produce The 31st Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards® streaming live on Netflix Feb. 23, 2025
SAG Awards® and Silent House Productions Partner Again to Produce
The 31st Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards® streaming live on Netflix Feb. 23, 2025
Executive Producers Jon Brockett, Baz Halpin, Mark Bracco and Linda Gierahn return to Lead Creative Team.
LOS ANGELES (December 6, 2024) – The Screen Actors Guild Awards® announced that Silent House Productions will return to produce the 31st annual ceremony. Jon Brockett, along with Silent House Productions’ Emmy® winners Baz Halpin, Mark Bracco and Linda Gierahn, will serve as Executive Producers. The 31st SAG Awards will stream live on Netflix Sunday, Feb. 23, 2025 at 8 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. PT from the Shrine Auditorium & Expo Hall.
Silent House Productions is the film, streaming, television, and digital media production division of Silent House Group — the award-winning production company, design studio, and creative agency that stages and produces large scale global events. In 2024, the team produced the 30th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards on Netflix, Noche UFC at Sphere Las Vegas, the 98th Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety Special (Pre-Recorded) for their work on Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love.
The executive producers have curated a formidable team of creatives including Sandra Restrepo (NYE Live Nashville’s Big Bash, Soul Train Awards, 29th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards) as Director. Tony® and Emmy winner Derek McLane (Academy Awards, Hairspray Live!) returns as Production Designer.
SAG Awards Committee members JoBeth Williams, Daryl Anderson, Jason George, Woody Schultz, and Elizabeth McLaughlin will return as producers for SAG-AFTRA. Jeneine Doucette-White will return as Co-Executive Producer. Emmy-nominated Benn Fleishman will return as Producer, Jen Coyne-Hoerle returns as Supervising Producer and Gloria Fujita O’Brien will return as Consulting Producer. Maggie Barrett Caulfield returns as a Co-Producer overseeing talent booking alongside talent producers Sarah Cowperthwaite and Joe Petrovich.
Jon Brockett returns as an Executive Producer for the fourth-consecutive year, overseeing the annual SAG Awards telecast and all related operations, including SAG-AFTRA’s Special Projects department. He will continue to serve as SAG Awards’ liaison to the SAG-AFTRA Foundation, the show’s primary beneficiary. In his two decades working on the show, Brockett has been instrumental in building the bridge between the union, networks, and studios, which has helped to make the ceremony an industry favorite. Brockett also serves on the board of Open Books, a nonprofit that provides school libraries with LGBTQ+ affirming books.
Baz Halpin, Silent House Group CEO and Founder, who most recently produced the 98th Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, Noche UFC at Las Vegas Sphere, the blockbuster film Taylor Swift I The Eras Tour, and produced Usher for his 2024 Super Bowl Halftime performance. Baz has served as a
producer on shows such as American Idol, the American Music Awards, the MTV European Music Awards, the Academy of Country Music Awards, and the iHeartRadio Music Awards. He is also known for his work in producing and creating concert tours and residencies, including but not limited to: Britney Spears Las Vegas Residency, Katy Perry’s PLAY Las Vegas Residency and Super Bowl Halftime Performance; Taylor Swift’s Eras, Reputation, 1989, Red, and Speak Now Tours, Harry Styles’ Love On Tour, Live on Tour and his 2022 Coachella-headlining performance, Jonas Brothers’ Happiness Begins Tour and P!nk’s Truth about Love, Beautiful Trauma, Summer Carnival, Funhouse and I’m not Dead Tours. Baz has also directed and produced performances at the Academy Awards, the Grammy Awards, King Charles’ coronation and President Joe Biden’s inauguration.
Mark Bracco brings over 25 years of experience working on some of television’s biggest live events and unscripted series. Since 2021, he has served as President of Silent House Productions. Most recently, he produced the 98th Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, Noche UFC at Las Vegas Sphere, the blockbuster film Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour and the Emmy Award winning special Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love. Prior to Silent House, he was Executive Vice President of Programming & Development at Dick Clark Productions where he produced the American Music Awards, Academy of Country Music Awards, Dick Clark’s New Years’ Rockin’ Eve, and Billboard Music Awards. He also developed, sold, and produced FOX’s The Passion Live, ABC’s Highwire Live with Nik Wallenda Specials, and the Emmy-nominated Carol Burnett Show 50th Anniversary Special on CBS.
Linda Gierahn is the Chief Content Officer & Head of Production for Silent House Productions. An expert in developing and executing film, television, and streaming events, Linda brings more than two decades of music and entertainment experience to Silent House, having most recently produced the 98th Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, Noche UFC at Las Vegas Sphere, the blockbuster film Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour and the Emmy Award winning special, Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love. Prior to joining Silent House, Linda was Executive Vice President of Production at Dick Clark Productions and executive produced the Golden Globes, Highwire Live in Times Square with Nik Wallenda, Billboard Music Awards, American Music Awards, Dick Clark New Year’s Rockin’ Eve, and many more.
Jeneine Doucette-White has worked for 30+ years as a producer in the world of television and entertainment, including a 23-year run at Access Hollywood where she was Supervising Producer. While at Access Hollywood, Jeneine was a producer on their Olympic coverage in both London and Rio. She also Co-Executive Produced a special on First Lady Michelle Obama for Revolt TV and was a Producer for the 2019 Fox Emmy Red Carpet Pre-Show. Jeneine went on to create and Co-Executive produce People (the TV show!) for the Meredith Corporation.
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ABOUT THE SAG AWARDS
One of awards season’s premier events, the SAG Awards annually celebrates the outstanding motion picture and television performances of the year. Voted on by SAG-AFTRA’s robust and diverse membership of 122,000+ performers, the SAG Awards has the largest voting body on the awards circuit. Beloved for its style, simplicity, and genuine warmth, the show has become an industry favorite and one of the most prized honors since its debut in 1995.
ABOUT SILENT HOUSE PRODUCTIONS
Silent House Group, which was recently named one of GQ's 20 most creative companies in the world, is comprised of three divisions - Silent House Productions, Silent House Studios, and Silent House Events - which together form the global award-winning production company, design studio, and creative agency that stages and produces large scale global events. Silent House Productions produced the 98th Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, Noche UFC at Las Vegas Sphere, and won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety Special (Pre-Recorded) for their work on Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love, in addition to four other Emmy nominations for the special, and produced the 30th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, which marked Netflix’s first-ever live awards show. Additionally, the award-winning team produced the blockbuster film Taylor Swift I The Eras Tour in partnership with Taylor Swift Productions, among other notable projects. For more information, please visit: https://www.silent-house.com/productions
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