Prior to his involvement in the film industry, Mr. Gaspard was the Founder and Producing Director of the Westside Arts Theatre in New York City from 1980 to 1990. Subsequently he founded the Union Square Theatre in 1991 and ran that multi-use performance space until 1995.

Raised in Chicago, New Orleans and Los Angeles, Mr. Gaspard came to New York to attend Columbia University as a National Merit Scholar and while a student was a regular photographer at the Fillmore East and an assistant photographer at Time-Life. After college, he worked as a tour manager with “Sly and the Family Stone” and Stevie Wonder among many others and also produced and directed music videos for “Talking Heads,” “Patti Smith” and the Japanese Blues Singer “Toru Oki.”

Some of the other projects he is currently developing are a feature film based on J.P. Donleavy’s seminal novel THE GINGER MAN with Johnny Depp slated to star; I EMILY, another feature with Calista Flockhart attached to play the lead role of Emily Dickinson; and DR. MATTHEW, a documentary about a remarkable doctor who gave his life holding the line against the dreaded Ebola Virus in Northern Uganda.

Most recently, he has partnered with The Stellar Group on the extraordinary artistic endeavor, THE WIDE WORLD OF MUSIC™, the aim of which is to create musical bridges and better appreciation of this planet’s diverse societies.