Jeremy Barber

Jeremy Barber is a Partner in the Motion Picture Literary and Talent Departments at United Talent Agency. Prior to UTA, Barber was President of Catch 23 and Catch 23 UK, the production and management company which he helped found. During his tenure, Barber executive produced One Hour Photo and King's Ransom, as well as represented clients including Steven Soderbergh and Renee Zellweger. Barber was also head of Production and Acquisitions at Artisan Entertainment, where he oversaw films such as Requiem for a Dream, The Blair Witch Project, and Buena Vista Social Club. Barber began his entertainment career as an attorney at Loeb & Loeb, after working for Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, clerking on the Ninth Circuit, and working in the U.S. Attorney's office for the District of Columbia. Prior to Hollywood, Barber had a career in politics, where he worked on the Dukakis/Bentsen Campaign, for Congressman Chuck Schumer, Senator Herb Kohl, and on Bill Clinton’s Chicago Convention. 

Barber serves or has served on the Georgetown University Law School Board of Visitors, the Telluride Film Festival’s Esteemed Council of Advisors, the board of The People Concern, UTA’s Advisory and Leadership Councils, Campbell Hall’s Advancement Committee, and the Independent School Alliance Board of Directors. At Harvard, Barber is Chair of Studio and Talent Relations at The Harvard Divinity School Film Festival and serves on the Chan School of Public Health Initiative on Health and Homelessness. Most recently, he joined the board of NPR member station KCRW and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace West Coast Advisory Board. Finally, he has also served as Chairman of the Board of the UCLA Lab School for almost a decade, where he now maintains an emeritus position. 

Barber served as a Storytelling Consultant to Harvard College through Harvard Divinity School’s Center for the Study of World Religions’ Constellation Project around narratives surrounding the climate crisis. 

Barber recently penned a piece for TIME Magazine titled: “Can Storytelling Reduce the Suffering of Homelessness?” His other publications include work in Georgetown’s American Criminal Law Review and Peterhouse’s The Whittle Booklet. 

Barber holds a master’s degree from Harvard Divinity School, a law degree from Georgetown University, and a master’s and bachelor’s from Cambridge University. He is a member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Century Association. He lives in Beverly Hills with his three teenaged children.