Jonathan Koch (producer)


Jonathan Koch is the president and chief creative officer of Asylum Entertainment, a Los Angeles-based television production company that he built from the ground up with his partner, Steve Michaels. Koch is best known for having produced the 2011 miniseries The Kennedys, starring Greg Kinnear, Barry Pepper, Katie Holmes, and Tom Wilkinson.

Film

In 2004, Koch co-authored with Robert Kosberg Pitching Hollywood: How to Sell Your TV Show and Movie Ideas, a film and television pitching manual.

Selected filmography

While in Washington DC at a conference for television producers, Koch became desperately ill. In order to save his life, doctors placed him in a coma. A few weeks later, when Koch woke up with his mind intact, he learned that he had survived septic shock, but that his body had been severely compromised. Koch resolved to survive, and then to thrive—for himself, his teenage daughter, and his fiancée, whom he had married right before he underwent the surgery that took all or part of all of his four limbs, including his right leg and left hand.
Koch spent the next 18 months rebuilding himself with several painful surgeries, multiple prosthetic fittings, and endless rehabilitation appointments. Day after day he exceeded his doctors’ expectations. One doctor in particular, a pioneering surgeon, recognized that Jonathan carried the mental and physical strength to successfully receive a human hand transplant. One year later, Koch made medical history when he received a revolutionary, first-of-its-kind, experimental sort of hand transplant. Usually it takes several years to learn how to use a new hand. Four months later, however, Jonathan was already back on the tennis court.

Speaking

Koch is an active motivational speaker represented by Key Speakers Bureau.