Producing & development
Advancing creative projects through planning, partners, and collaborative execution.
ENTERTAINMENT IN ORBIT · THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE POSSIBILITIESJoshua
Joshua
Kirshbaum
PRODUCER · STRATEGIST · CULTURAL VENTURE BUILDER
At the intersection of story, culture, and possibility.
Joshua Kirshbaum brings a producer’s curiosity and a strategist’s eye to the work of building entertainment ventures. Across cultural projects, creative partnerships, and international initiatives, his focus is on turning ambitious ideas into structures that can last.
EIO / JOSHUA / A PORTRAITTHE STORY SO FAR
A life in motion.
“A story deserves more than an audience. It deserves the people, partnerships, and infrastructure to go further.”
Joshua’s path to entertainment is deliberately unconventional. His early work moved between independent production, community arts, international development, and conflict mediation. Through it all, one question kept returning: what happens when the right people come together around a powerful idea?
Today, as a co-founder of Impact Ventures International and a producer associated with Entertainment in Orbit, Joshua connects creative teams with strategic relationships, commercial thinking, and long-term development. His work spans entertainment, intellectual property, business development, and partnerships involving producers, entrepreneurs, and private capital. Rather than treating a production as a single opening night or release, he is interested in the wider life of a story: how it develops, reaches an audience, and creates opportunities beyond its first format.
THE WORK
What moves the story forward.
Intellectual property
Exploring the wider commercial and cultural potential of stories and creative assets.
Strategic partnerships
Connecting people across entertainment, entrepreneurship, and capital.
International perspective
Bringing experience in cross-cultural projects, diplomacy, and community-based initiatives.
CHAPTERS
Behind the scenes.
Explore some of the experiences that shaped Joshua’s perspective. Select a chapter to read more.
The creative foundation
Early work in independent film, photography, creative studios, and arts programming shaped Joshua’s approach to storytelling and production.
A global perspective
Work connected to humanitarian initiatives and United Nations civil society environments expanded his experience in negotiation, public communication, and cross-cultural collaboration.
Building the business behind the story
Through Impact Ventures International, Joshua developed a practice connecting strategy, intellectual property, venture development, and partnerships.
Entertainment in motion
As a lead producer of Love Birds, the musical by Robert J. Sherman, he brings these disciplines into theatrical producing and cross-border collaboration.
SELECTED FEATURES
In the conversation.
SELECTED COVERAGE / READINGInternational Business TimesA conversation with Joshua Kirshbaum and Kelly Grandmaison ↗SELECTED COVERAGE / READINGJewish JournalJoshua Kirshbaum’s Plan to Change the World ↗SELECTED COVERAGE / READINGJoshua’s writingThoughts on culture, capital, and intellectual property ↗
THE NEXT CHAPTER
Great stories are built together.
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