 The Player, in ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD.  Otto, in JACKRABBIT SKY, a feature film |
Biography Writer, Director, Producer, ActorCOMPLETE RESUME VIDEO/TELEVISION 2005-Present Senior Producer/Co-Writer: “The Mystery Of Love,” two-hour documentary for PBS; Producer/Writer, Edward R. Murrow Awards for the Radio & Television News Directors’ Association (yearly); Producer/Director/camera, “Art & Music,” documentary for the Art Students’ League. Producer/Director/Camera, public service videos for the Ovarian Cancer National Allicance, International Rescue Committee, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. 1997-Present Producer/Writer/Director: Six videos for Last Acts (a coalition of 700 non-profit health organizations, funded by Robert Wood Johnson, with the goal of changing America’s way of dealing with dying.) Nine videos for the Union of American Hebrew Congregations (see next page for details). Videos on advance directives for the Citizen’s Committee for Health Care Decisions. Videos for Hazelden Foundation, Symphony Space, American Jewish Committee. DVD for the Darthmouth Medical School. Producer/Writer: The duPont Awards (for Columbia University & PBS). Edward R. Murrow Awards for the Radio & Television News Directors’ Association. 1987-1997 Sr. Producer/Director/Writer, Alvin H. Perlmutter, Inc. Responsible for script & proposal writing, supervising production teams, directing, producing. 1979-1986 Chairman and Professor, Department of Film & Video, City College of New York. 1974-1979 Producer/Director, National Programming -- KQED, San Francisco’s public television center. Senior Producer/Head Writer, Pilot and first season of Over Easy, hosted by Hugh Downs. 1973-1974 Head Writer, Villa Alegre, bilingual daily children’s series on PBS. 1963-1971 WNET: Director of Cultural Programming, Director of Programming, Supervision of programming nominated for 25 Emmy Awards, winning 12. Producer/Writer, one hundred and fifty hours of primetime programming. OTHER POSITIONS Consultant, WNET, 1982-1983 Consultant, PBS, National Endowment for the Arts, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, 1978. Film Advisory Panel, New York State Council on the Arts, '81-'82. Advisory Panel, National Endowment for the Humanities, '82-'83. EDUCATION B.A. SWARTHMORE COLLEGE. HIGH HONORS, PHI BETA KAPPA, 1956. BOOKS: Directing for Film & Television - 1985 (Doubleday), 2001 (Allworth Books) Silent Grief: Living in the Wake of Suicide -1988 (Scribners, Bantam Books), 1998, (Jason Aronson). Also published in Brazil, Russia, England, and China. Staying in Charge: Practical Plans for the End of Your Life (John Wiley & Son; 2004). The First Year: Prostate Cancer (Marlowe Books, 2005) ACTING 2009: The Wee Hour.Two-man play at the Depot Theatre (Garrison.) 2008: The Antibody (Aery Theatre) (I wrote and & starred in this one-man play) 2007: East Village Chronicles #4 (Metropolitan Playhouse) 2006: Krapp’s Last Tape, (Symphony Space, NYC) 2006: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead. Community Theatre |
|
