Sharyn Blumenthal

Office:	UTC-240
Office Hours:	By appointment
Phone:	562-985-1577
E-mail:	sharynblum@aol.com

BA Cum Laude , English Literature
Temple University

MFA, Radio/TV/Film
Temple University

Director/Writer. Ms. Blumenthal has just completed her indie feature TAKET WO, a dark comedy about bad choices, worse choices, power politics, and personal redemption, starring Joyce Hyser and Albie Selznick. TAKE TWO comes fast on the heels of Ms. Blumenthal's film WALKING TO WALDHEIM, which premiered at the American Film Institute, screened at the Palm Springs Film Festival, had a run for Academy Award consideration at the Laemmle Theatre, was selected as a finalist at the Hollywood Film Festival, and stars Emmy Award Winner Doris Roberts, Tony Award Winner John Randolph, comic Taylor Negron, and Broadway and TV veteran Kaye Ballard.

Salient in Ms. Blumenthal's recent list of credits is the Cine Eagle Award winning film THE POET'S WIFE, starring Rachel Chagall, which was selected to represent the U.S. at film festivals in Spain, Germany, and Italy, and also competed stateside at CineWomen, and The Sinking Creek Film and Video Festival. For a Showtime Network anthology series, Ms. Blumenthal wrote and directed three films: WOMAN ON A TRAIN, THE PHOTOGRAPHER, and AS ALWAYS MADELAINE (which also screened at the New York Film Festival, and featured Viveka Davis and Diane Salinger). Ms. Blumenthal's film for Cal Repertory's production of LIVING AFTER MIDNIGHT won a Drama-Logue Best Director Award and was a Los Angeles Times "Pick of the Week".

As a documentary filmmaker, Ms. Blumenthal has just completed THE PHOENIX EFFECT about the transference of traumatic memory on 2nd and 3rd generation Holocaust survivors. Partially funded by The Leonard Nimoy Foundation, it was recently given a special screening at the New Jersey Film Festival. Also, it's played at: The USMuseum of the Holocuast in Washington, DC, Cherry Hill, NJ, Atlanta, Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, and will be screening February, 2006 in Las Vegas, NV. The Los Angeles Holocaust Museum sponsored a premier screening of THE PHOENIX EFFECT at The American Film Institute and caps Ms. Blumenthal's series of award winning documentaries, including PEARL'S GARDEN (Chicago Festival, Women In The Directing Chair), TOWARD STILLNESS (PBS, Individual Artists Grants), ROCK AND HAWK (California Council of the Humanities funded film on the poet Robinson Jeffers and his wife Una), and CHILDREN OF THE TOWERS (now a standing exhibit at the Los Angeles Watts Towers Arts Center).

Ms. Blumenthal's play S.I.N. was just produced at the Celebration Theatre in Los Angeles; and two other plays she wrote, GENERATION EZ (at the Ventura Court Theater) and WORKING FOR FREE (at the Playwright's Arena), were produced by Women In Theater, Los Angeles. Ms. Blumenthal's comedy ONE GIRL STRAIGHT received a staged reading at the Stella Adler Theater.

Ms. Blumenthal is a former Directing Fellow at the American Film Institute. She received her MFA in Film and Television from Temple University. Articles about and reviews of her work have appeared in The American Cinematographer, The Los Angeles Times, The LA Weekly, and The Journal of The University Film & Video Association. Ms. Blumenthal is Chair of the Film & Electronic Arts Department at Cal State University, Long Beach. She is represented by Ann McDermott, COAST TO COAST Talent & Literary Agency, Los Angeles.