ARTHUR ALLAN SEIDELMAN

...continues to distinguish himself as a director of film, theater, and television. He recently completed the film THE SISTERS which premiered at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival and has won the Best Feature Award from the Sedona Film Festival and Best Ensemble Cast from the Phoenix Film Society. The film stars Maria Bello, Chris O’Donnell, Mary Stuart Masterson, Eric McCormack, Erika Christiansen, Elizabeth Banks, Tony Goldwyn, Alessandro Nivola, and Rip Torn.

Mr. Seidelman directed the Alan Menken/Lynn Aherns musical production of A CHRISTMAS CAROL for Hallmark Entertainment and NBC starring Kelsey Grammer, Jason Alexander, Geraldine Chaplin, Jane Krakowski, Jesse Martin and Jennifer Love Hewitt.

Mr. Seidelman’s film PUERTO VALLARTA SQUEEZE, based on the Robert James Waller novel, and starring Scott Glenn and Harvey Keitel, be released Spring 2006.

For Hallmark Hall of Fame, Mr. Seidelman directed THE RUNAWAY with Maya Angelou and Dean Cain, THE SUMMER OF BEN TYLER starring James Woods and Elizabeth McGovern, HARVEST OF FIRE with Patty Duke, and GRACE AND GLORIE starring Gena Rowlands and Diane Lane.

Other films include: LIKE MOTHER, LIKE SON starring Mary Tyler Moore; BY DAWN’S EARLY LIGHT with Richard Crenna; WALKING ACROSS EGYPT with Ellen Burstyn; MIRACLE IN THE WOODS starring Patricia Heaton and Della Reese; A FRIENDSHIP IN VIENNA with Jane Alexander and Ed Asner; BODY LANGUAGE starring Heather Locklear; THE KID WHO LOVED CHRISTMAS starring Cicely Tyson, Sammy Davis, Jr., and Vanessa Williams; and POKER ALICE with Elizabeth Taylor.

He is currently in pre-production on IN THE SHADOW OF WINGS starring Virginia Madsen, Dougray Scott, and William H. Macy. The film will be shot in South Africa and Kenya.

His honors include two Emmys, five Emmy nominations, the Grand Prize from the New York Film and Television Festival, prizes from the Chicago, San Francisco, Palm Springs, Sedona, and Heartland Film Festivals, Humanitas Award, Peabody Award, three Christopher Awards, and the Western Heritage Award.

Mr. Seidelman’s Broadway and Off-Broadway credits include: Richard Alfieri’s SIX DANCE LESSONS IN SIX WEEKS, THE MOST HAPPY FELLA for the New York City Opera, the concert version of Jerry Herman’s MACK & MABEL at Lincoln Center, BILLY, HAMP, THE CEREMONY OF INNOCENCE, AWAKE AND SING, and Tennessee Williams’s VIEUX CARRE.

Los Angeles theater credits include: the highly acclaimed premiere of SIX DANCE LESSONS IN SIX WEEKS starring Uta Hagen and David Hyde Pierce; Richard Alfieri’s THE SISTERS at the Pasadena Playhouse, CAROUSEL at the Hollywood Bowl, and OF THEE I SING, THE BOYS FROM SYRACUSE, FOLLIES, HAIR, KISMET, and MACK & MABEL.