Interim Chair / Associate Professor
Lisa Swain has worked in the entertainment industry for the past fifteen years as a production supervisor on film projects ranging in budget from 15 million to 150 million. Her credits include the commercially successful movies Big Fish, Anger Management, America’s Sweethearts, Face-Off, Varsity Blues and Mars Attacks among others. She has worked with such notable producers as Richard Zanuck, Barrie Osborne, Bruce Cohen and David Permut and directors Tim Burton and Gore Verbinsky.

She also worked in dramatic television as the production coordinator on Amblin Entertainment’s SeaQuest and in the sitcom world on the Family Channel’s Big Brother Jake.

Lisa also won the prestigious student silver Oscar for Best Dramatic Picture awarded by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for Turtle Races, a film she produced while a student at Regent University in 1991.

She loves throwing parties for 6 or 600, hiking, playing games, watching movies, scuba diving and is currently training for her first marathon. She also enjoys working with the brave single moms as a counselor at the Westside Pregnancy Center in Santa Monica.