Dori Berinstein
DORI BERINSTEIN is a three-time Tony-Winning Broadway producer with an extensive film and television producing and directing background. ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway, now in theatrical release across the country, marks Dori's debut as a feature film director. The film was named one of the top 4 Documentary Films of 2006 and won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary at the Florida Film Festival. ShowBusiness goes deep inside the backstage world of Broadway chronicling the behind-the-scenes passion, exhiliration, drama, sweat and high-stakes creative and financial risk of Wicked, Avenue Q, Taboo and Caroline, or Change from inception through the Tony Awards. As a Broadway Producer, Dori's productions include: Thoroughly Modern Millie (Tony Award - Best Musical), The Crucible, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (Tony Award - Best Revival of a Play), Flower Drum, Golden Child. Additionally, Dori produced Fool Moon starring Bill Irwin and David Shiner (Tony Award 1999 - Special Theatrical Event) each of its three times on Broadway. Dori's 11th Broadway Show, Legally Blonde: The Musical, recently opened on Broadway and received 7 Tony Nominations. Additionally, Dori co-founded Camp Broadway, an immersive behind-the-scenes year-round national Theatre Camp aimed at giving kids a life-long-love for the arts. For film, Dori executive-produced and/or supervised over 40 feature, special f/x or animated productions including Isaac Mizrahi's award-winning documntary Unzipped, Dirty Dancing, and Jim Henson's MuppetVision 3-D. Dori is currently in production on her third documentary feature, chronicling the New Jersey Nets Senior Citizen Hip-Hopping Dance Squad. Her second documentary feature, Some Assembly Required, produced in partnership with NASA astronaut Dr. Sally Ride, follows kids competing in a national toy invention competition. The film is now in post production. She has served as a producer and/or executive for Paramount Pictures, Warner Brothers, Sony Pictures, NBC, MTV, Sesame Workshop, Oxygen Media, Vestron Pictures and Walt Disney Imagineering. Bio as of July, 2007. American Theatre Wing programs, interviews and/or credits include: Working in the Theatre (video) Production: Fool Moon - April, 1993 - Watch now. Downstage Center (audio) Dori Berinstein - July, 2007 - Listen Now. Internet Broadway Database Listing (IBDB.com)