Creative Services

Riding The Tiger Productions is based in Los Angeles, but the team for a given project can work

anywhere in the world.

Creative Collaboration

In addition to her own projects, Lydia Nibley works with clients to assemble the right creative team for their film, television, and book projects. The collaboration is richest when clients have a project they passionately believe in, and when they are clear about what they want it to achieve. Riding The Tiger Productions is brought in to deepen and refine a story. Clients tell us that we make good stories great and that our work is artful, moving, and humane. We take on projects we know we can enhance and we love what we do.

Script-doctoring, Adaptations, and Consulting

Riding The Tiger Productions adapts books and short stories to film, translating the essence and power of a story told in print into the language of visual storytelling. Lydia Nibley also provides script-doctoring and specializes in character-driven stories. Recent media consulting projects include: conceptualizing a reality television series, consulting on a rough cut of a documentary, and refining a dramatic script to add depth to the characters, polish dialogue, and give the story more international appeal.

Ghostwriting and Developmental Editing

Lydia Nibley works with authors, agents, and publishers to help conceptualize a book, ghostwrite a manuscript, consult with the author during the writing of the book, or refine a completed manuscript. Recent projects include guiding the development of two memoirs, the revision of a novel based on actual events, and the editing of a nonfiction book that debuted at the top of the New York Times bestseller list.

Teaching The Art of Story and Film Outreach

Lydia Nibley teaches a seminar on The Art of Story. The seminar explores how to skillfully use detail and research to deepen the “truth” told in fictional stories, and how to make the most of the tools of fiction (character, plot, dialogue, setting, scene, narrative arc) in the telling of true stories. She has been an artist-in-residence at Stephens College, and a visiting professor at UCLA, the University of Missouri, and The Colorado College. She has also presented her film work and lectured at a number of museums, colleges, and universities, including Harvard University.