Press Contact: Natasha Padilla, WNET 212.560.8824, [email protected] Press Materials: http://pbs.org/pressroom or http://thirteen.org/pressroom Websites: http://pbs.org/americanmasters , http://facebook.com/americanmasters , @PBSAmerMasters , http://pbsamericanmasters.tumblr.com , #AmericanMasters American Masters Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love Premieres nationally Friday, December 27 at 9 p.m. on PBS (check local listings) Production Biographies Dori Berinstein Director, Producer, Writer Dori Berinstein is a four-time Tony-winning Broadway producer and an award-winning director, producer and writer of film and television. Berinstein’s award-winning films include ShowBusiness: The Road To Broadway , chronicling the behind-the-curtain passion, exhilaration, drama, sweat, and high-stakes creative and financial risks of four new Broadway musicals; Carol Channing: Larger Than Life , revealing the magic and vivacity of the 90-year-old icon – both onstage and off – past and present; Gotta Dance , capturing the adventures of the first-ever senior citizen hip-hop dance team for the New Jersey Nets basketball team from auditions to center court stardom; and Some Assembly Required , chronicling six teams of determined teenagers as they navigate ‘the game of life’ on their quest to win the national toy invention crown. Berinstein’s 12 Broadway productions include Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Tony Award – Best Revival); Legally Blonde: The Musical (Olivier Award – Best Musical); Thoroughly Modern Millie (Tony Award – Best Musical); The Crucible (Tony nomination); One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (Tony Award – Best Revival); Fool Moon (Tony Award – Special Live Theatrical Presentation); Flower Drum Song (Tony nomination); Enchanted April (Tony nomination); Big (Drama Desk Award – Best Musical) and Golden Child (Tony nomination). Berinstein recently received the Robert Whitehead award for ‘outstanding achievement in commercial theatre producing.’ Co-founder of Camp Broadway, an immersive behind-the-scenes Theatre Camp for kids, Berinstein is committed to instilling a life-long love for the arts in children. Berinstein executive produced and/or supervised more than 50 feature, special f/x and animated productions, including Isaac Mizrahi’s award-winning documentary Unzipped , Dirty Dancing (both the feature & TV series) and Jim Henson’s MuppetVision 3-D. She has executive produced websites for Oprah and President Clinton. She has also served as a producer and/or executive for DreamWorks Theatricals, Paramount Pictures, Warner Brothers, Sony Pictures, NBC, MTV, Sesame Workshop, Oxygen Media, Vestron Pictures and Walt Disney Imagineering. Berinstein began her professional career as an investment banker in mergers & acquisitions for Morgan Stanley. Alan Deutsch Director of Photography Alan Sterling Deutsch attended New Mexico State University and received his B.A. in Journalism (Television Production/Cinematography) in 1984. His documentary shooting career began in 1991 when he lensed The Homefront with Bill Moyers for PBS, winning a Dupont Gold Baton Award. Since then he’s traveled extensively, shooting films in Israel, Morocco, Armenia, Venezuela, Peru, Mexico, Africa, Norway, Soviet Georgia, India, Thailand, Japan and Europe, as well as the U.S. His many clients in film, television and commercials include Disney, ABC, PBS, HBO, National Geographic, MTV, Discovery, TLC, MSNBC, VH-1, Nickelodeon, FOX, Showtime, CNBC, Oxygen Media and many others. In 1998 he produced and shot two episodes of the hit documentary series Trauma: Life in the E.R . His “Growing Pains” episode was the highest-rated show ever broadcast on TLC at the time. In 1999-2000, Alan produced and shot a one-hour documentary “Test Pilots: Daring and Dangerous” for the popular series On the Inside for The Discovery Channel. He received a national Emmy Award for his camerawork on Pam Yates’ one- hour TV documentary Loss Of Innocence . Alan also received an Emmy nomination for his lighting work on Talking Sex for HBO. In 2002, Alan shot Lucas Platt’s WTC documentary 110 Stories which was nominated for a 2003 National News/Documentary Emmy Award. His feature work includes The Kitchen Push , winner of the 1998 New York Film and Video Festival- Best First Feature. He is also credited with additional cinematography on Mark Levin’s SLAM , the winner of the Sundance Film Festival and the Comme d’Or at Cannes, and Levin’s race/religion/ love story Brooklyn/Babylon . In 2004, he shot Dori Berinstein’s ShowBusiness: The Road To Broadway . In 2007, Alan shot Morgan Spurlock’s What Would Jesus Buy? In 2009, Alan started series producing/directing the hit reality series Dog: The Bounty Hunter . He’s presently the executive producer of Dog’s new hit CMT show Dog & Beth On The Hunt . Jimmy O'Donnell Director of Photography Jimmy ODonnell is a member of The International Cinematographers Guild, earning two Emmy Awards and numerous nominations over a 30-year career as a professional director of photography in film & television production. Over the course of his distinguished tenure, the scope of Jimmy’s work has taken him all over the world shooting countless, diverse and wide-ranging projects, from well-known award- winning TV shows such as Sesame Street , Reading Rainbow , Great Performances and Behind the Music to dozens of documentaries that span a wide variety of genres, directed and produced by some of the industry’s most talented people. In the last five years alone, Jimmy has shot over six feature-length documentaries, each enjoying high critical acclaim. Some of these works include: Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love for the American Masters series, Never Stand Still (Jacobs Pillow) for Great Performances , Far Out Isn’t Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story (30-city theatrical run), Money & Medicine for Need to Know , and Wish Me Away: Chely Wright Story (Showtime). For more information and a full credits list please visit: www.odopro.com. Penelope Falk Editor Penelope Falk is best known for her work on Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work , which won her an Excellence in Editing award at the Sundance Film Festival. Her other credits include A Letter Without Words (premiered Sundance Film Festival), Bombay Eunuch (winner of the New York Gay and Lesbian Film Festival), Stagedoor (debuted at the New York Film Forum), Toots , (premiered Tribeca Film Festival), Smile Til It Hurts (premiered Slamdance Festival), The New Public (premiered Hamptons Film Festival) and Maidentrip (winner of the SXSW Audience Award). Falk’s TV film credits include Afghan Stories (Sundance Channel), Uncle Sam Wants You (A&E), Escuela (PBS), Election Day (PBS) and Unfinished Country (PBS). Matthew Sklar Music Adaptation & Arrangements Tony and Drama Desk-nominated composer of the Broadway musicals Elf and The Wedding Singer , Matthew Sklar’s other works include The Rhythm Club , Judas & Me and Wicked City . He is a recipient of the ASCAP Richard Rodgers New Horizons Award, the Gilman & Gonzalez-Falla Musical Theatre Award, and the Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation Award. In addition to his work as a composer, Matthew has been a pianist, conductor and/or arranger for more than a dozen Broadway productions including Caroline, or Change ; Nine ; Shrek ; 42nd Street ; Titanic ; Miss Saigon and Les Misérables . Brian Oakes Motion Graphics Brian Oakes founded Brian Oakes Design in New York. Brian designed the titling and motion graphics for the critically acclaimed documentary Wordplay . He followed up with designing the graphics for the PBS program The Botany of Desire ; Comedy Central’s Important Things with Demetri Martin and Patrick Creadon’s theatrically released documentary I.O.U.S.A. His work can be currently seen in the documentary Inequality for All . Andrew Herwitz Executive Producer Andrew Herwitz is president of The Film Sales Company, the New York-based sales agent/financier. The company specializes in devising unique strategies for sales and distributions for each of its films for both domestic and international markets. Recent completed fiction films sold and/or financed include Lee Daniels’ The Butler ; Randy Miller’s CBGB: The Movie and Waitress . Among the more notable documentary films the company has financed and/or sold are Marvin Hamlish: What He Did For Love ; Let The Fire Burn , Room 237 , The Bones Brigade: An Autobiography , The Crash Reel, War Dance (Academy Award nominee), Iraq in Fragments (Academy Award nominee), Born Into Brothels (Academy Award winner, Best Documentary), My Architect (Academy Award nominee) and Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 . Prior to establishing this company in 2002, Andrew worked at Miramax for six years where he served as head of the film acquisitions department. Before that he practiced entertainment law at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison in New York City. Andrew is a graduate of Harvard College, Columbia Business School and Harvard Law School. Andrew lives in New York City with his wife and three children. Mitchell Cannold Executive Producer Cosmos Studios President and Executive Producer Mitchell Cannold brings 30 years experience as a senior executive, founding, operating and acquiring a wide range of media businesses at Sony Corporation, NBC News, CBS News, ABC Sports and The Walt Disney Company. As President of both Sony’s New Media Group and Sony New Technologies, he founded all of Sony’s Internet businesses, The Sony U.S. Design Center and Sony Gateway, the strategic marketing partnership team. He initiated partnerships between multiple