Karen Glass, a former Disney studio exec who helped develop The Princess Diaries and Tuck Eternal earlier than she started producing vacation TV motion pictures, died Monday, December 22. She was 63.
A sister of radio host Ira Glass, Karen Glass most just lately exec produced this 12 months’s Lifetime vacation film A Pickleball Christmas starring James Lafferty and Zibby Allen. She reportedly was already engaged on a brand new mahjong-themed vacation film.
Her demise was introduced by household in an obituary. A trigger was not disclosed.
Based on beforehand printed reviews, Glass joined the Walt Disney Co. in 1989 as a member of the advertising staff at Buena Vista Tv. The next 12 months she started a five-year affiliation with Buena Vista Photos Distribution, the place she was a supervisor of gross sales administration earlier than being promoted to director of theatrical technique and planning. In 1995, she joined Buena Vista Photos Advertising as a director of nationwide promotions and in 1996 served as exec director on nationwide promotions.
Throughout her tenure at Disney – she left in 2006 – Glass helped spearhead The Princess Diaries (she purchased the ebook for the studio and insisted on hiring Julie Andrews for the movie), Tuck Eternal, and Herbie Totally Loaded, amongst many others.
After leaving Disney, Glass grew to become a prolific producer of TV vacation motion pictures, together with such movies as Ice Princess starring Michelle Trachtenberg (2005) and Same Time, Subsequent Christmas starring Lea Michele (2019). Glass’ different holiday-themed TV credit embody, amongst others, By no means Kiss a Man in a Christmas Sweater (2020), Christmas Class Reunion (2022) and Leah’s Good Reward (2024).
Glass, a graduate of the College of Pennsylvania and the UCLA Anderson College of Enterprise, just lately began a enterprise to counsel highschool college students making use of to school.
Along with brother Ira Glass, Karen Glass is survived by son Zachary Sean Barry; sister Randi Glass Murray; in-laws David Meckel and Susanna Fogel; stepmother Sandy Glass; nephews Sam and Ben Murray; and uncle Bennett Politzer.
