Dominique Lasseur is a producer of film and television, and a partner with his wife Catherine Tatge in Tatge/Lasseur Productions. He most recently traveled to Afghanistan and Jordan to produce sequences of a documentary on religions entitled One. He is currently producing a documentary tentatively entitled Inspiration: Our Common Language. He is also managing Director and officer of a newly created not-for-profit Global Village Media.
Last year Lasseur produced a series on Ethics in America for the Fred Friendly Seminars, featuring many notable participants, including Justice Scalia and O'Connor. He is co-producer of their latest project, The Question of God: C.S. Lewis & Sigmund Freud, premiering on PBS in September 2004.
With numerous productions in the U.S. and abroad, his work has embraced performance, performance documentaries, biographical profiles, news and public affairs, and informational programming.
From Holo Mai Pele—a dance/performance special on PBS’ Great Performances —and a series entitled Dances of the Pacific, he also produced Breaking the Silence: Journeys of Hope, a PBS special on domestic violence, as well as special programming for the Pew Charitable Trust, Harvard Business School, and Fred Friendly Seminars.
He produced a special on poetry, Fooling with Words with Bill Moyers on the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival, as well as Sounds of Poetry, a series of nine programs featuring contemporary poets. In music, he produced The Little Red Caboose, a pilot program designed to teach music to young children, as well as a televised concert featuring gospel singer CeCe Winans. And in classical music, Lasseur produced Playing with Fire, a 90-minute special on the 10th Van Cliburn Piano Competition, as well as Encore, a series of six half-hour programs featuring the Competition finalists. and a series of programs featuring author Jean Houston. Lasseur was co-executive producer of the four-hour series, What Can We Do About Violence? with Bill Moyers, and co-produced Liz Swados’ The Hating Pot.
Co-founder of the not-for-profit company International Cultural Programming, Lasseur worked as producer or production executive on all the company’s productions, including a series of biographies for the American Masters series on PBS – including Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage and Martha Graham: The Dancer Revealed—and Our Mixed-Up Culture, a pilot for a cultural magazine hosted by Buck Henry and funded by General Motors. He also co-produced a series of performance documentaries, Works & Process, for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. He produced Book of Days, a feature film shot in the south of France by Meredith Monk and shown at the New York Film Festival, and served as production supervisor for the Warner Bros. film version of New York City Ballet’s The Nutcracker, starring Macaulay Culkin.
Lasseur has a diverse background in French television, theater and film. He began his career as a stage and film actor in Marseilles and Paris. In 1979, he moved into television production, working as an associate producer for the major French television networks. Among his credits are Gospel Caravan; Carmen with Mikhail Baryshnikov; Proust with ballerina Maya Plissetskaya; and Parisiana with dancer Zizi Jeanmaire. In 1980-1981, he worked for Camera One Company on post-production of Don Giovanni, the film/opera directed by Joseph Losey, and Houston, Texas, a documentary directed by François Reichenbach.
In 1981-1982, Lasseur worked on a series of documentaries about French overseas territories entitled Le Pays d’Ou Je Viens, and was associate producer on Images de Voyage, a documentary about Marguerite Yourcenar produced for French Channel 3 and shot in England, Northern Europe, and France. Prior to coming to the United States in 1983, Lasseur was the associate manager of the Ballet National de Marseille Roland Petit, where he was in charge of television productions and international tours.
About Catherine Tatge
