Dan Steinman Joins Madison Wells as President and Chief Content Officer

Film and TV veteran Dan Steinman has joined Gigi Pritzker’s Madison Wells production venture as president and chief content officer.

He takes the reins as Madison Wells is on a roll with high-profile original film, TV and stage productions including Netflix’s “Nonnas,” the CNN feature documentary “Prime Minister,” about New Zealand’s Jacinda Ardern, and “The Baddest Speechwriter of All,” produced with Steph Curry’s Unanimous Media. That documentary earned the Sundance Film Festival’s short film grand jury award and will premiere on Netflix later this year.

“We are thrilled to have Dan on board as our President and Chief Content Officer. His devotion and intentionality will be invaluable to Madison Wells as we continue to tell impactful stories,” said Pritzker.

Steinman has spent the past nine years as co-president and chief operating officer of 30West, where he helped conceive such projects as the 2017 Margot Robbie film “I, Tonya,” the 2020 Netflix docu-series sensation “Tiger King, 2022’s “Triangle of Sadness” and the upcoming Paul Rudd-Nick Jonas comedy “Power Ballad.”

“Joining the Madison Wells team feels like a natural next step. Madison Wells’ vision is rooted in the future, focused on how we can evolve our content to match the moment,” Steinman said.

Madison Wells works in financing and production and it is an investor in other entertainment ventures including streaming platform Mubi and Breakwater Studios. It also produces stage productions including the recent Broadway musicals “Hadestown” and “Swept Away” and play “The Inheritance.”

Before 30West, Steinman served as co-president and COO of Black Bear Pictures and CEO of its Canadian distribution subsidiary, Elevation Picture. Earlier in his career, he was a senior agent in CAA’s film finance division where he was involved in the financing and sales of such projects as 2013’s “12 Years a Slave” and 2010’s “Black Swan.”