Top Hit makers Speakers

Alanis Morissette
This Canadian songstress has sold tens of millions of albums and been nominated for and won scores of awards including Grammy's and Golden Globes during a decade-long career. But that's not enough for a woman who has spent years giving a voice to causes from global warming to disaster aid.
Andy Cohen
Andy Cohen is Bravo's Executive Vice President of Original Programming and Development. He is responsible for overseeing the network's current development and production slate including hits such as the Emmy and James Beard award-winning "Top Chef," “Top Chef Masters,” "The Real Housewives” franchises, "The Millionaire Matchmaker," "Million Dollar Listing," “The Rachel Zoe Project,"...
Anthony E. Zuiker
As the creator and executive producer of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, one of the highest-rated dramas in television history, Anthony E. Zuiker is tuned-in to America's steep consumer expectations. Not only did Zuiker develop a blockbuster television series; he built an entertainment empire that transformed television programming and advertising. A world-wide phenomenon, the CSI franchise ...
Antoine Fuqua
Antoine Fuqua has established himself as one of the foremost industry talents of his generation. Through his diverse body of work, he has achieved his goal of making highly stylized films that resonate thematically and personally with audiences around the world. Mr. Fuqua explores the complexity of free will complexity – the decisions that ordinary people make and the un anticipated...
Bruce Cohen
Academy Award-winning producer Bruce Cohen recently launched Bruce Cohen Productions, adding live events, theater, and new media to his existing film & television businesses...
Curt Smith
Curt Smith is best known as a musician, singer and songwriter who co-founded the multi-platinum group Tears For Fears, with which he continues to tour worldwide. He also produced and hosted the groundbreaking live music web series "Stripped Down Live With Curt Smith" and pursues his own solo music career. His most recent releases include the single "Perfectly...Still (featuring Universal Hall...
David Simon
David Simon, 49, is a Baltimore-based journalist, author and television producer. Born in Washington, he came to Baltimore in 1983 to work as a crime reporter at The Baltimore Sun. While at the paper, he reported and wrote two works of narrative non-fiction, Homicide: A Year On The Killing Streets and The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood, the former an account of a...
David Steinberg
Emmy award winning director, writer, producer, actor and comedian David Steinberg has been called "a cross between Woody Allen and Lenny Bruce" by The New York Times and "a credit to his people, actually to all people" by Robin Williams. He has worked in movies and television and on Broadway, and has launched the careers of many successful comedians. Now in his fifth decade as a major...
Davis Guggenheim
Davis Guggenheim is a critically acclaimed, Academy Award-winning director and producer, whose early work includes many television dramas such as Deadwood, NYPD Blue and 24. He transitioned into directing non-fiction films with The First Year, which aired on PBS in 2001 and won a Peabody Award. An Inconvenient Truth, featuring former Vice President Al Gore, was theatrically distributed by...
Diana Ross
In a remarkable career spanning over 30 years, Diana Ross has proven herself the consummate music artist as well as the most successful female singer of all time. In the 1960s as lead singer of the pop group The Supremes, she achieved the unprecedented feat of fourteen consecutive number one hit records, rivaling The Beatles for the position of most successful recording act of that generation.
Doug Ellin
Doug Ellin, Creator and Executive Producer of Entourage moved to Hollywood from his native New York in 1990 to become a stand-up comedian. While working the circuit at comedy club mainstays including The Improv and The Comedy Store, Ellin took a position in the mailroom of New Line Cinema. It was through this connection to New Line Production Head, Michael DeLuca, that Ellin's career was able...
Greg Yaitanes
Emmy Award-winning television and film director Greg Yaitanes, 41, is one of the most recognized names in Hollywood, directing and producing top shows including Damages, Lost, Prison Break, Heroes and Grey's Anatomy. His Emmy Award came in 2008 as result of his work on House, M.D., the most popular show worldwide. Currently Greg is Executive Producer at House. Greg grew up in Wellesley...
James Cameron
Born in Kapuskasing, Ontario, Canada, James Cameron grew up in the historic village of Chippawa, near Niagara Falls. In 1971, he moved to Brea, California where he studied physics at Fullerton Junior College while working as a machinist and, later, a truck driver. Cameron quit his trucking job in 1978 and raised money from local dentists to produce a 35mm short film...
Jay Sean
Jay Sean is the international superstar behind songs such as "Down," featuring Lil Wayne, and "Do You Remember," chart-topping hits from his U.S. debut album All or Nothing, which helped catapult him into a league reserved for just a few. Now, he is gearing up for the release of his fourth album, the highly anticipated Cash Money/Universal Republic follow-up Freeze Time, with music, including...
JD Roth
JD Roth was born to be in the television business. A natural performer and producer, JD was fascinated with the medium from the time he could talk, especially by the variety hosts and game shows that would serve as the precursors to today's prolific "reality" genre. JD got his start in front of the camera as a child actor, between the ages of 11 and 18 landing more than 250 national...
Jerry Weintraub
(Producer) is one of the most influential and successful people in the entertainment industry, with a career spanning more than 50 years and encompassing the genres of feature films, television, theatre and music. Weintraub had already enjoyed tremendous success in the management and music fields when he made an auspicious motion picture producing debut with Robert Altman’s seminal 1975...
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Joseph Gordon-Levitt has been working as a professional actor for twenty-three years. He recently starred in award-winning sleeper hit (500) Days of Summer for which he was nominated for the Golden Globe. After adolescence on the TV show 3rd Rock From The Sun, he took a break from acting to attend Columbia University and returned to earn his "indie cred" with films Mysterious Skin...
Joss Whedon
Emmy and Oscar nominee Joss Whedon is one of Hollywood's top creators, scripting several hit films and creating one of television's most critically praised shows, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Born in New York June 23, 1964, Whedon is a third-generation television writer. His grandfather and father were both successful sitcom writers on shows such as The Donna Reed Show, Leave It to Beaver and...
Kara DioGuardi
While you may know her as the American Idol judge who sits between Simon Cowell and Ellen DeGeneres, Kara's songs have appeared on more than 150 million albums, and she remains one of the industry's most sought after songwriters and producers. Kara is a Grammy nominated hitmaker, 2007 BMI Pop Songwriter of the Year, 2007 SOCAN Award winner, and has been awarded 15 BMI Awards for co-writing ......jpg)
Krista Vernoff
Krista Vernoff is the Emmy Nominated, Golden Globe winning Head Writer/Executive Producer of television's hit show, Grey's Anatomy. Over the last decade, Krista has written for a broad variety of television shows including NBC's Law & Order, The WB's Charmed and Fox's short-lived cult phenomenon, Wonderfalls.
Lee Daniels
LEE DANIELS’ background is filled with bold stories as real and gritty as the narratives from the films he creates. By the age of 21, Daniels had founded and was running his own health care agency, providing nurses to private homes and hospitals; he was simultaneously trying to be a screenwriter. After selling his health care business, and giving up screenwriting, he began managing actors such...
Mark Boal
Filmmakers have long been inspired by the work of investigative reporters, as was Oscar-winner Paul Haggis when he adapted Mark Boal's Playboy Magazine article "Death and Dishonor," the true story of a father who searches for his missing Iraq war veteran son. The film, "In the Valley of Elah," earned its star Tommy Lee Jones an Oscar nomination for Best Actor. Truly uncommon, however, is...
Matthew Weiner
Matthew Weiner is the creator and executive producer of Mad Men, an AMC original series, now in its fourth season. Since its debut, the series has garnered three consecutive Emmy® Awards for Outstanding Drama Series; three Golden Globe® Awards for Best Television Drama Series; a Peabody Award; a Producers Guild Award; two Writers Guild Awards; AFI Awards for one of the Top 10 Outstanding....jpg)
Michael Franti
THE SOUND OF SUNSHINE The Sound Of Sunshine -- the inspired and inspiring new album by Michael Franti & Spearhead -- is a kind of musical sun shower, a bright, beautiful and often buoyant song cycle created to bring all kinds of listeners a sense of hope during rough and rainy times for so many in our world. "Music is sunshine," says Michael Franti, one of the most positive and conscious...
Oliver Stone
OLIVER STONE has directed "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps" (10), "W." ('08), "World Trade Center" ('06), "Alexander" ('04), "Any Given Sunday" ('99), "U-Turn" ('97), "Nixon" ('95), "Natural Born Killers" ('94), "Heaven and Earth" ('93), "JFK" ('91), "The Doors" ('91), "Born On The Fourth Of July" ('89), "Talk Radio" ('88), "Wall Street" ('87), "Platoon" ('86), "Salvador" ('86)...
Paul Shaffer
World-renowned bandleader Paul Shaffer has been David Letterman's musical director and sidekick on CBS-TV's "Late Show" for the past 27 years. A Grammy Award-winning master of musical and verbal improv, he has conducted a televised jam that included Bob Dylan, Mick Jagger, Tina Turner, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, and Jeff Beck; been musical director at the White House...Paula Abdul
Never before has there been an artist who has been equally recognized, awarded and celebrated both in front of the camera and behind the scenes, as has Paula Abdul. As a ground-breaking choreographer, dancer, song writer, performer, designer, actor and business women, this two-time Emmy Award winner and multi-platinum recording artist has continued to find new ways to entertain her loyal fans...
Phil Rosenthal
In conjunction with the release of his book You’re Lucky You’re Funny, Everybody Loves Raymond executive producer Phil Rosenthal and his writing team take audiences behind the scenes of one of the most beloved sitcoms in TV history. Along the way they describe in detail how the shows were written and characters developed, screen video clips of their home lives, and reveal how those real-life...
Rev Run
Recognized as a hip-hop pioneer, Rev Run is best known for being one-third of the legendary rap group Run-D.M.C. His brother, Russell Simmons, formed the hip-hop management company Rush Productions in the early '80s. By the mid-'80s, Russell had formed the pioneering record label Def Jam with Rick Rubin. Encouraged by his brother, Run and his friend Darryl McDaniels formed the rap group...
Ryan Bingham
For some artists, winning an Oscar would represent reaching a pinnacle. For Ryan Bingham, who took home the Academy Award for "The Weary Kind," his hauntingly beautiful theme song for the acclaimed film Crazy Heart, it instead represented a crossroads and a decision about which path to take. "When there are a lot of people around saying 'look, you have to capitalize on this and do something ...
Spike Lee
Spike Lee, is a writer, director, actor, producer and author who revolutionized the role of Black talent in cinema. Widely regarded as a premiere African-American filmmaker, Lee is a forerunner in the ‘do it yourself’ school of independent film. An avid sports enthusiast, Lee recently completed a one day 18 camera documentary shoot focusing on NBA standout Kobe Bryant. Produced for ESPN, the...
Steven Tyler
Born Steven Victor Tallarico on March 26, 1948, in Yonkers, New York, Steven Tyler is the iconic songwriter, composer and voice of Aerosmith - America's Greatest Rock and Roll band - and is considered one of rock's most recognizable and dynamic frontmen. Rolling Stone Magazine has cited him one of the greatest singers of all time. After moving to Boston in the late 1960s, Tyler met the...
T Bone Burnett
In his conversations and speeches, T Bone Burnett focuses on his celebrated work as a composer, music supervisor and producer for films such as O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Walk the Line, Across the Universe, Cold Mountain and The Big Lebowski. Burnett-who just won an Academy Award for Best Original Song for "The Weary Kind," the theme from Crazy Heart, for which he also served as a producer.....
Terence Winter
Emmy Award Winner Terence Winter is the creator, writer, and executive producer of the HBO television series Boardwalk Empire. On September 19, 2010, Boardwalk Empire 's premiere episode gained HBO's highest ratings for any premiere since 2004 and less than two days later the series was renewed for a second season. Before creating Boardwalk Empire, Terence was a writer and executive producer...
Todd Rundgren
A Wizard, A True Star. The title of Todd Rundgren's 1973 solo album aptly sums up the contributions of this multi-faceted artist to state-of-the-art music. As a songwriter, video pioneer, producer, recording artist, computer software developer, conceptualist, and, most recently, interactive artist (re-designated TR-i), Rundgren has made a lasting impact on both the form and content of popular ....
Tony Bennett
One of the greatest interpretive singers of the 20th century, Tony Bennett’s amazingly long and successful career is one of the wonders of American musical history. To listening audiences he brings the story of his life as an artist and entertainer, from 1940s crooner and 1950s jazz singer to surprise darling of the MTV generation.
More Speakers
- Paula Abdul
- Tony Bennett
- Ryan Bingham
- Mark Boal
- T Bone Burnett
- James Cameron
- Andy Cohen
- Bruce Cohen
- Lee Daniels
- Kara DioGuardi
- Doug Ellin
- Michael Franti
- Antoine Fuqua
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
- Davis Guggenheim
- Spike Lee
- Alanis Morissette
- Phil Rosenthal
- Diana Ross
- JD Roth
- Rev Run
- Todd Rundgren
- Jay Sean
- Paul Shaffer
- David Simon
- Curt Smith
- David Steinberg
- Oliver Stone
- Steven Tyler
- Krista Vernoff
- Matthew Weiner
- Jerry Weintraub
- Joss Whedon
- Terence Winter
- Greg Yaitanes
- Anthony E. Zuiker
Hit makers
Hit makers
A Hit Maker is much more than just a "one hit wonder" appearing only briefly at the top of the entertainment charts. Hit Makers are multi-talented, multi-faceted musicians, writers and producers who possess the kind of timeless talent that defies the odds of the entertainment industry and continues to be highly relevant over the span of several decades.
CAA Speakers represents these select few individuals and is proud to offer them to you as the celebrity speaker centerpiece of your next corporate event or special engagement.
Whether they are speaking about their life in the entertainment business, or singing a selection of the songs that have made them famous, Hit Makers are celebrity speakers that make every event or conference a star-studded affair.
For more information, contact CAA Speakers today.