JOHN TRIPP
John Tripp is a multi-faceted entertainment veteran with over 30 years experience in many
areas of the entertainment industry. Recently, he was the Chief Operating Officer of MIX
Entertainment Holdings, LLC, an entertainment development company with several key
projects including best-selling author Clive Cussler’s ‘The Oregon Files’ television series.
Previously, Tripp was the Chief Operating Officer of ChildStar Entertainment, LLC, a
multi-media platform company encompassing music, television, merchandising, video
gaming and the internet. One of ChildStar’s main ventures was The TrollMates, a
‘tween pop group for whom Tripp secured a concert appearance at the Great Wall of
China at Badaling near Beijing on September 6, 2006 on the occasion of the launch of
The International Paralympics Mascot and two-year countdown to the 2008 Olympic
Games. The televised event garnered an estimated viewing audience of 850 million
worldwide.
Tripp’s consulting business, Howland WorldWide, LLC, has been creating strategic alliances
for several years. A few notable examples of alliances that Tripp has created include:
Assistance League of Southern California with entertainment journalist Leeza Gibbons and
her Alzheimer’s organization (‘Leeza’s Places’); Tony and Emmy Award-winning writer
William Luce with the People’s Republic of China to create a Broadway-bound musical based
on the Flying Tigers (American volunteer pilots who flew beside the Chinese against the
Japanese during WWII); ‘Cultural Sister City’ alliance between Hollywood, CA and Kunming
in Yunnan province, the film capital of China.
Tripp has over 30 years experience in all phases of the event production world. Mr. Tripp,
both individually and with various companies he has co-founded and worked with, has
produced over 500 high-profile events on both the East and West coasts.
Tripp co-founded Sakow and Tripp International, an event production company. Tripp coproduced events such as the Hollywood Halloween street festival, which closed an historic
mile-long stretch of Hollywood Boulevard from Vine to Highland for an unprecedented two
days. The multi-cultural, family-friendly event attracted 80,000 people. Other significant
events that Tripp co-produced included Los Angeles Magazine’s annual Best of LA food and
wine festival 2003, 2004 & 2005; Eco-Wine Fest, the first organic wine festival in California;
the 2nd Annual Planetary Coral Reef Foundation Benefit with James Cameron; a Women of
Los Angeles Gala in honor of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver; spcaLA’s
125th anniversary benefit at Hugh Hefner’s Playboy Mansion; a Gala at the Historic Regent
Beverly Wilshire in honor of Evelyn Lauder, of the Estee Lauder Corporation, for her
contributions to the Fight against Breast Cancer; and events for the Alzheimer’s Association
and Leeza’s Places.
Prior to co-founding Sakow and Tripp International, Tripp co-founded St. Andrews Place, an
event production company. A partial list of clients included Barbra Streisand, Matt
Groening, Quincy Jones, Ozzy Osbourne, Warner Bros., Paramount, Universal, LACMA,
James Garner, Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Malibu International Film Festival, television
shows including The West Wing, EXTRA, MAD TV, and 3rd Rock from the Sun, Tony
Awards West, Women in Film, American Society of Composers and Publishers (ASCAP),
celebrity photographer Herb Ritts, Daily Variety, Los Angeles Opera Guild, Museum of
Television & Radio (Beverly Hills), Los Angeles Natural History Museum, George C. Page
Museum at La Brea Tar Pits, Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, and UCLA.
Tripp learned the event production business and became a senior event producer for New
York society and celebrity event producer, Donald Bruce White. Clients included Jacqueline
Kennedy Onassis, Norman Lear, Andy Warhol, the Rockefellers, Yoko Ono, Presidents
Nixon, Carter, and Reagan, Henry Kissinger, Gloria Vanderbilt, the Bronfman Family of
Seagram’s, and a host of foreign royalty and dignitaries. Tripp oversaw the special event
aspects of numerous fashion shows for clients such as Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein, and Bill
Blass, among others. Tripp also produced events for corporate and institutional clients
including: the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the Cooper-Hewitt
Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, TIME-LIFE Corporation, Ford Corporation, the
Peabody Foundation, PepsiCo, and the United Nations.
Tripp studied theater arts under the renowned acting coach and three-time Tony Awardwinner Uta Hagen in New York City and with Stella Adler in Los Angeles, as well as studied
voice with world-renowned vocal coach Virginia Shore in Hartford, Connecticut. He played
starring roles for several years in the TV serials All My Children, Love of Life and As the
World Turns, hosted several television series, appeared in several feature films, and was as a
lead in over 200 nationally telecast commercials; one of which was awarded the top honor at
the Clio Awards and is part of the Smithsonian Institute’s permanent collection as a ‘Piece of
Americana’. Tripp co-founded the successful theatre company Bank Street Players and
produced and acted in several productions. Tripp also co-authored/designed the best-selling
design and travel book, Safari Chic.
Tripp is a former member of the Los Angeles Board of Directors of the American
Institute of Wine and Food, founded by Julia Child and James Beard. He is also an
active contributor to the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce and was invited to
become a member of its Board of Directors.