Two Tigers Productions

Two Tigers Productions

Two Tigers Productions is a creative consulting and production company based in East Hollywood. From soft power to direct action, we’ve witnessed how art can convene communities, foreground our shared humanity, and empower collective change. We collaborate with artists, nonprofit and governmental orgs, and socially responsible companies, to engage audiences, tell stories, and create connections that inspire meaningful action. We choose projects that reflect our values, and model equity across all aspects of our process.

Two Tigers’ co-founders, Jillian Schultz and Leah Thompson, first met in 2011 while producing a documentary photography exhibition in Beijing. After collaborating on a variety of projects across the U.S. and abroad, they formalized their partnership in 2018 with the formation of Two Tigers Productions. Since 2019, Two Tigers has been supporting Corita Art Center in an ongoing public awareness campaign, including partnership building, community activations, marketing and social media. They recently completed a feasibility study for the Arts Division of the City of West Hollywood, evaluating possible models for executing a large-scale civic art festival.

Jillian Schultz, Co-Principal

Jillian is a producer, curator, and Mandarin-English translator involved in a range of international projects. She has expertise in lens-based media, educational programming, and artist development. She is passionate about art as a catalyst for exchange, and fostering mutual understanding across cultures and within communities. She recently launched Magnum Foundation's photography and social justice fellowship program in China. Other recent projects include: curating the art exhibition at the United State of Women Summit, producing the Bay Area #ReframeClimate public wheatpasting campaign with Dysturb, and event strategy/execution for a large-scale centennial celebration of local artist, activist, and former nun, Corita Kent. Partners and clients include: California Alliance for Arts Education, TaskForce, Beijing Photo Biennial, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Corita Art Center, Antony Gormley Studio, Jimei X Arles Photo Festival, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Asia Society. She has curated exhibitions and produced public programs in the U.S., the UK, China, Ethiopia, and Germany. She is producing a forthcoming feature-length documentary about Chinese birth tourism in Southern California. She serves on the Advisory Board of Emerging Arts Leaders/Los Angeles and is a nominator for the Prix Pictet. Jillian has a B.A. in art history and Asian studies from Tulane University and an M.A. in East Asian languages & culture/art history from Columbia University.

Leah Thompson, Co-principal

Leah is an exhibition producer and documentary filmmaker based in Los Angeles. She recently produced COAL + ICE, an immersive 50,000 sq. ft. documentary photography exhibition and city-wide festival of events in San Francisco at the Fort Mason Center for Arts and Culture in conjunction with Governor Brown’s Global Climate Action Summit. As a documentary filmmaker and writer, Leah is interested particularly interested in how creative communities foster and advocate for social and environmental change. In 2017, she completed How to Start Your Own Utopia, a short documentary following Ou Ning, a prominent Chinese artist, and his art-based rural reconstruction effort in a remote Anhui province. The documentary premiered at the Guggenheim Museum in 2017 as part of the exhibition, Art and China After 1989: Theater of the World, and traveled to the Guggenheim Bilbao and SFMOMA in 2018 and 2019. Previously Leah was the Associate Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at Asia Society in New York where she oversaw a wide array of projects, from policy reports, conferences, and multimedia exhibitions, to the development of ChinaFile, an award-winning online magazine. She holds a B.A. and M.A. in History from UC Berkeley and San Francisco State University respectively, with a focus on American cultural and intellectual history.

Our services include: impact campaign and brand development, program development and execution, full service video production, exhibition planning and production, strategic partnerships, social media strategy and management, art and creative direction, full service publication production, project management, and strategic planning.

We would love to discuss how we might help with your upcoming project. Please be in touch!

jillian@twotigers.co / leah@twotigers.co