EVE BRANDSTEIN
EVE BRANDSTEIN

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Eve Brandstein

One of Hollywood’s most prodigious workers, Eve has made contributions to nearly every facet of the entertainment industry.

In addition to being a poet, Eve Brandstein has been a major studio and network executive, a producer, a film and theater director, writer/creator, and casting director. She is also an artist, psychotherapist, teacher and workshop facilitator, who has led writing and performance groups.  As an accomplished fine artist her work is shown at galleries in Los Angeles and New York.  She is a publisher of The Hollywood Review, an anthology of L.A. poets and also the author of “The Actor – A Practical Guide to a Professional Career” and has published several collections and anthologies of poetry chapbooks.  Her next poetry collection will be published in 2023.  She is also the producer of the celebrated reading series – Poetry In Motion, launched in 1988.   Poetry in Motion is presently a bi-coastal monthly series at various venues in Los Angeles and\ New York City.

Brandstein was casting executive for Norman Lear’s production companies after directing New York theater and making her debut as a filmmaker at AFI.  Some of her credits for casting over two decades include, “Diff’rent Strokes”, “One Day At A Time”, “Facts of Life'', and “Who’s The Boss” and dramatic series shot in Australia, “Beastmaster”, “The Ponderosa”.  She will be forever famous for having cast the rock’n’roll parody “Spinal Tap.”  She also has an extensive list of credits as a writer, producer and director in television and independent film.  Eve Brandstein and Anne Beatts formed B-Girls Productions in 1988 and have written and produced pilots for tv and an upcoming documentary series The Girl In The Room about women in comedy and pending series - Funny Boys about the early days at The National Lampoon.  Brandstein and Beatts  co-produced and co-directed 13 episodes of “John Waters Presents Movies That Will Corrupt You.”

Recently, Brandstein directed a multi-media theatrical production of Anne Frank’s Diary for The Museum Of Tolerance Los Angeles.  She is the director of the recent long- running hit shows – Not That Jewish with Monica Piper and Rain Pryor’s Fried Chicken & Latkes.  She has directed over 75 theatrical productions on both coasts and Israel.  Most recent shows – NY Off-Broadway 2 year hit, Shut Up Sit Down & Eat, NY and LA premieres of Revisiting Wildfire, the NY premiere of Voices Of Swords, Ronnie Spector’s Beyond The Beehive, Waiting For Jack – A Beat Poetry Reunion, Claiming Allen Ginsberg, and Suzanne Wang’s Cracked Open. Eve has also directed many Jewish Women’s Theater shows: Stories From the Fringe, Saffron and Rosewater, Hold Me, Heal Me, He Said, She Said, Past & Present: Russian Jewish American Stories. Beyond Jacob’s Ladder, More Courage – Muslim & Jewish Stories and Crossing Our Red Sea.  And Los Angeles and New York premieres of Barra Grant’s Miss America's Ugly Daughter, about her relationship with her mother, Bess Myerson.  

June 2022 finds her recent project, The Lost Weekend - A Love Story in the Tribeca Festival.  Eve co-produced and co-directed the feature documentary about John Lennon and May Pang’s 18 month (1973-1975) love affair.