Oren Jacoby

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Oren Jacoby is a director and producer of documentary films including Constantines Sword 2008 Sister Roses Passion 2005 The Shakespeare Sessions 2003 Stage on Screen The Topdog Diaries 2002 The Beatles Revolution 2000 and Sam Shepard Stalking Himself 1998 He was a coproducer of the PBS series The Irish in America Long Journey Home 1998 Jacoby was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject for Sister Roses Passion which also won Best Documentary Short Film at the 2004 Tribeca Film Festival He has written directed and produced awardwinning films for two decades His filmmaking has been recognized by the American Film Institute the MacArthur Foundation ITVS Britains Royal Television Society and by AMPAS His films have appeared on the BBC HBO Cinemax PBS National Geographic VH1 NHK Japan as well as Nokia Verizon and Human Rights Watch websites The Topdog Diaries about the 2002 Pulitzer prizewinning playwright SuzanLori Parks featured performances by Don Cheadle and Jeffrey Wright The Shakespeare Sessions starred Kevin Kline Cynthia Nixon Liev Schreiber and Charles S Dutton Jacoby also made Swingin with Duke starring Wynton Marsalis and Master Thief on the art heist of the century and Benny Goodman Adventures in the Kingdom of Swing for American Masters and The Second Russian Revolution a behind the scenes investigation of the collapse of the USSR called the best BBC series of the decade by the London Independent Jacoby also wrote produced and directed The Return Ticket adapted from a short story by Anton Chekhov Ghosts of the Bayou Idols of the Game featuring Michael Jordan He has won CINE Golden Eagles the Royal Television Society UK journalism award the MacArthur Golden Owl award as well as grants from the American Film Institute ITVS The Independent Television Service and the National Endowment for the Humanities Jacoby has directed plays at Theater for the New City the Williamstown Theater Festival Ensemble Studio Theater the West Bank Cafe and regional theaters including new works by Richard Dresser Quincy Long and Franz Xavier Kroetz He collaborated with Adrian Hall on an adaptation of Robert Penn Warrens All the Kings Men with songs by Randy Newman at the Dallas Theater Center and Trinity Rep His stage adaptation of Ralph Ellisons Invisible Man was performed in a reading at the 2004 Tribeca Theater Festival in a coproduction with the Classical Theater of Harlem He wrote the screenplay for Shores of a Dream and is coauthor with Forrest Stone of the original screenplay Tarzan Brown for the Oxford Film Company He is a graduate of Brown University and the Directing Program of the Yale School of Drama and is a native New Yorker Tamar Jacoby an American writer and academic is his sister Description above from the Wikipedia article Oren Jacoby licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia