BRINGING THE STAGE TO YOU®

Defining The Digital Performing Arts

Stage Access is defining digital performing arts as the only company in North America that produces, distributes and licenses classical arts programming across multiple platforms, including a theatrical relationship with IMAX®, as well as its own STAGE ACCESS on-demand streaming service featuring host Kelsey Grammer, which is available on the web and for iOS, Android, Apple TV, Amazon Fire and Roku.


With a mission of Bringing the Stage to You®, Stage Access is a leading producer of acclaimed original programs and actively co-produces with global partners. Recent productions include Renée Fleming’s Cities That Sing; Yo-Yo Ma, Six Solo Bach Cello Suites from the Odeon, Athens; The 3 Tenors: From Caracalla to the World, The 30th Anniversary Documentary; John Neumeier: A Midsummer Night’s Dream.


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IMAX® and Stage Access Present Renée Fleming’s Cities That Sing, Two Stunning Cinematic Event Films


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LEADERSHIP TEAM

Bruce H. Lipnick

Bruce H. Lipnick

Founder & CEO

Sarah Hoit

Senior Advisor

  • Bruce is the Founder and CEO of Stage Access, the leading company in North America that produces, distributes, and licenses classical arts programming across multiple platforms. His background as a film producer includes Renée Fleming’s Cities That Sing co-produced with IMAX, The 3 Tenors: From Caracalla to the World 30th Anniversary Documentary, Yo-Yo Ma Performs Bach From the Odeon of Herodes Atticus Athens, and The Extraordinary Journey of Fernando Bujones.

    Bruce previously enjoyed a distinguished financial services career as the Founder, CEO and Chairman of Asset Alliance Corporation, an alternative investment management company with more than $7 billion under management. He is a pioneer in hedge fund portfolio management, seeded 18 firms and launched the first 40 Act mutual fund with AUM growing to $1.7 billion. Bruce has received numerous industry awards including Ernst and Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year and the Lifetime Achievement Award for Giving from Hedge Funds Care. Bruce also held an ownership stake in Monarch Business & Wealth Management, a firm representing internationally acclaimed entertainers and athletes and helped fund, launch and served on the board of SMArtX Advisory Solutions, a leading asset management technology platform with $50 billion under management.

    A devoted patron of the arts, Bruce has proudly supported major performing arts institutions including New York City Ballet, The Baryshnikov Arts Center, The Washington Ballet, Boston Ballet, and The School of American Ballet in New York.

  • Sarah is a social entrepreneur, executive, and consultant. She is currently the Chief Social Impact Officer for BioVie, Inc. (Nasdaq: BIVI), an innovative pharmaceutical company that through people centered science is creating groundbreaking innovations to combat diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. Sarah is also the CEO of a nonprofit foundation, Social Impact Partners, whose partners share a belief in the power of collaboration to create change, who are working to globally combat Alzheimer’s and are providing solutions for families.

    Sarah was previously Co-Founder, CEO and Chair of Connected Living, Inc., a company that created an accessible, virtual, social network designed for seniors and senior living communities to provide a way for seniors and families to connect, access goods and services, and enhance quality of life. The company now serves more than 500 senior communities across the United States. In 2021, Sarah orchestrated the sale of Connected Living to Omega Healthcare Investors (NYSE: OHI).

    Sarah holds a BA with Honors from Dartmouth College and an MBA from Harvard Business School, where she was awarded a public service fellowship.

Elmar Kruse
Sanford R. (Sandy) Climan

Elmar Kruse

Global Content Acquisitions

Sanford R. Climan

Senior Advisor

Renée Fleming
Septime Webre

Renée Fleming

Chair, Artists Advisory Committee

Septime Webre

Artist Advisor

  • The American soprano and global super-star is one of the most beloved and celebrated singers of our time, captivating audiences with her sumptuous voice, consummate artistry and compelling stage presence.

    A 2023 Kennedy Center Honoree, Renée Fleming was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Obama at a White House ceremony in 2013, America’s highest honor for an individual artist. She brought her voice to a vast new audience in 2014, as the first classical artist ever to sing “The Star-Spangled Banner” at the Super Bowl. Winner of the 2023 Grammy Award (her fifth) for Best Classical Vocal Solo, she sings in the greatest opera houses, concert halls, and theaters around the world.

    In May of 2023, Ms. Fleming was appointed by the World Health Organization as a Goodwill Ambassador for Arts and Heath.

  • Septime is an internationally recognized artistic director, choreographer, educator, and advocate. He joined Hong Kong Ballet as the Artistic Director in 2017 after 17 years as Artistic Director of The Washington Ballet in Washington, DC from 1999-2016. Previously, he served as Artistic Director of the American Repertory Ballet, based in Princeton, New Jersey. In addition, Septime has served as the Artistic Director of Halcyon, a Washington DC-based nonprofit organization designed to seek and celebrate creativity in all forms.

  • Mr. Climan is President of Entertainment Media Ventures, a Los Angeles-based firm active in media investment and strategic advisory work, with a particular focus on disruptive technologies and entities currently impacting the traditional boundaries of business, media and entertainment. Throughout his career, he has held senior executive positions on both the creative and business side of the entertainment industry, including serving as Corporate Executive Vice President of Universal Studios and as a senior talent agent and founding head of the corporate advisory practice at Creative Artists Agency.

  • Mr. Kruse is head of C Major Entertainment, a global leader in production, marketing and distribution of audio & audiovisual music programs. Mr. Kruse was instrumental in the creation of the legendary The 3 Tenors with producer Mario Dradi and composer and producer Herbert Chappell. Together they produced the first concert in 1990 as a way for Plácido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti to welcome José Carreras back to the performing world after treatment for leukemia and to raise money for the José Carreras International Leukemia Foundation. In 1994, The 3 Tenors concert at Dodger Stadium was estimated to have 1.3 billion viewers worldwide.