CORPORATE PRESENTATION SPECIALIST
DIRECTOR and WRITER
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DIRECTOR:
TELEVISION :
The Life of a Cooperative Community – First Place Award for Feature Documentary from the 2005 Northeast Regional Alliance for Community Media Director/Videographer/Editor for BronxNet made possible by a grant from the Herbert Liebman Memorial Fund
Jelly Bean Jungle –ABC syndicated children’s television series
YaHoo BugaBoo – Realm Entertainment, Director/Writer/Series Creator
Scrambled Feet - RKO/ShowTime, starring Madeline Kahn
Texas – NBC, 50 episodes
Edge of Night – 12 episodes
Alice in Wonderland, The Red Shoes, Puss’n Boots, The Wind in the Willows, The Land of Oz – MCA/Universal, VIRA Award, 2 ACE Awards
Guardian Angels –Abrams/Gentile Entertainment, promo for series; Director/Co-Creator/DP/Camera
FILM:
Gift of the Magi – Pan Am Pictures, narration by Anthony Quinn, starring Robby Benson, Martin Balsam
One Thousand Dollars – Pan Am Pictures, narration by Anthony Quinn, starring Frankie Quinn
BROADWAY:
Teddy & Alice – Minskoff Theater, starring Len Cariou
Shakespeare’s Cabaret – Bijou Theater, Tony-nominated Production
OFF BROADWAY:
The Trapped Family Singers –The New York Fringe Festival ’03, Best Actor Award for Alex Gemignani
The Immigrant – American Jewish Theatre, Obie Award for Lonny Price as Best Actor
Puppet Master of Lodz –AJT
Last of the Red Hot Lovers – AJT, with Tovah Feldshuh and John Ethan Phillips
The Prisoner of Second Avenue – AJT, first NYC revival
REGIONAL:
Chekhov in Yalta –Walnut Street Theatre
Lisa and David: The Musical – Lee Strasberg Institute, Premiere production
HEAD WRITER/PRODUCER
America ’s Most Wanted – FOX, Coordinating producer and Executive in Charge of producing and writing all recreations of crimes - 63 episodes, 187 recreations
WRITER:
STAGE:
Chekhov in Yalta – Winner Los Angeles Drama Critics’ Award Best Play, Co-author Mark Taper Forum, Cleveland Playhouse, Alliance Theatre, etc., produced for British television by Thames Ltd., published by Samuel French
Scrambled Feet – Co-author/Director/Actor at Village Gate, Westwood Playhouse, St. Nicholas, etc., published by Samuel French
Lisa and David: The Musical – Book and lyrics, produced by Eugene O’Neill Foundation and Marilyn Monroe Theatre at the Lee Strasberg Institute
Shogun: The Musical – Book and Lyrics, Minskoff Theatre on Broadway and The Kennedy Center
FILM:
Cops’R’Us – Co-writer, optioned by Dino DeLaurentiis
Bite – Independent feature slated for production Spring of 2006, based upon a true story of a learning disabled reporter. Readings by Hypothetical Theater, Rattlestick Theatre and Westchester Playwrights
BOOKS:
Married to the Iceman – Non-fiction work on Richard Kuklinski, "The Iceman," and his wife, Barbara
Hunger of the Beast – Putnam Berkley, horror fiction
RELATED EXPERIENCE:
CAMERAMAN/DP: Mr. Driver has worked as a cameraman, director of photography and news photographer for various television stations, shooting stories of such newsworthy personalities as the Dalai Lama, David Cone and Alex Kelly. Winner ADA Award for Outstanding Production for direction and photography on “Special People Special Issues.”
ACTING: Mr. Driver began his career as an actor, won a Theatre World Award for his performance as Bill in the Broadway musical, OVER HERE, and spent a year with the original Broadway company of GREASE. He was recurring federal prosecutor, Bob Gervitz, in LAW & ORDER and for two years was NYC Police Commissioner Morris on LAW & ORDER: SVU.
OTHER: He completed three years with the Advanced BMI Musical Theater Workshops as a Composer/Lyricist/Librettist. Executive Producer, Special People Special Issues, a public service program featuring issues that concern the disabled. Co-Artistic Director and Co-Founder of Innovative Stages, a Westchester-based theatre company that focuses on developing theatrical works, and encouraging high school students to write for the theatre.
EDUCATION:
Northwestern University – Bachelor of Science in Theatre, Honors in Directing
Smith College – Master of Fine Arts in Theatre