Jeanmarie Condon
Jeanmarie Condon is an award-winning filmmaker and showrunner who has written, directed and produced commercially and critically successful documentaries and television series for more than three decades. Her work has streamed and aired on Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, The National Geographic Channels, A&E, Lifetime, PBS and ABC.
That work has earned her 40 Emmy nominations, 15 Emmy Awards, 2 Overseas Press Club, 4 Columbia DuPont, 2 Peabody, a Livingston and a Robert F. Kennedy awards. She has also been an Executive Producer for the iconic programs Nightline and This Week and lead ABC’s award winning. coverage of the conflicts in the Middle East and the Arab Spring.
Jeanmarie has been a trusted collaborator with some of the most respected storytellers in the news and entertainment industry including Peter Jennings, Ted Koppel, Christiane Amanpour, Diane Sawyer, Katie Couric, Robin Roberts, Anderson Cooper, Dan Harris, Bob Woodruff, Linsey Davis and Dan Harris. She has collaborated on documentary projects with recording artists Pharrell Williams, John Legend, Alicia Keyes and Jay Z’s Roc Nation as well as with director and Academy Award winning screenwriter John Ridley.
She lived and worked in Jerusalem and the West Bank in the decade after the Oslo Peace Accords were signed, directing documentaries for the late Peter Jennings, producing the Middle East portions of his Peabody Award winning Millennium Eve broadcast, reporting for NPR News. Her films The Search for Jesus and Jesus and Paul: The Word and the Witness with Jennings, as well as two films about the Branch Davidian tragedy in Waco made with Diane Sawyer were among the highest rated docs ABC had ever aired. Her film Jesus, Mary and DaVinci helped made the book DaVinci Code the international best-seller it became. A series of films including The Tip of the Spear with Ted Koppel and The Evolution of Revolution with Jennings explored America’s fraught interventions in the Iraq and Iran. Other notable work includes Back to the Beginning with Christiane Amanpour, in which Amanpour traveled the region on a search for the provenance of stories in the Book of Genesis which lay the groundwork for the shared values of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The series Let The World See about Mamie Till Mobley, the mother of Emmett Till, and Exposing Parchman were produced in conjunction with Jay Z’s Roc Nation.
As a Fulbright Senior Scholar she taught documentary journalism to students at BirZeit University outside of Ramallah. During the second Intifada, she reported both for ABC and NPR. She is directing a film with John Ridley and another for ABC News Studios and Hulu and working on her first book.
