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Eve Brandstein is one of Hollywood's most prolific talents, contributing to nearly every aspect of the entertainment industry. Beyond being a poet, she has held roles as a major studio and network executive, producer, film and theater director, writer/creator, and casting director. Additionally, she is an artist, psychotherapist, teacher, and workshop facilitator, leading writing and performance groups. As a distinguished fine artist, her work is exhibited in galleries across Los Angeles and New York. She publishes The Hollywood Review, an anthology showcasing L.A. poets, and is the author of "The Actor - A Practical Guide to a Professional Career," along with several poetry collections and anthologies of chapbooks. Her upcoming poetry collection is slated for release in 2023. Eve also produces the acclaimed reading series Poetry In Motion, launched in 1988, which currently runs monthly on both coasts at various venues in Los Angeles and New York City.
Brandstein served as casting executive for Norman Lear's production companies after directing theater in New York and debuting as a filmmaker at AFI. Over two decades, her casting credits include "Diff'rent Strokes," "One Day At A Time," "Facts of Life," and "Who's The Boss," as well as Australian-shot dramas like "Beastmaster" and "The Ponderosa." She is famously known for casting the rock'n'roll parody "Spinal Tap." Her extensive credits also span writing, producing, and directing in television and independent film. In 1988, Eve and Anne Beatts founded B-Girls Productions, creating and producing TV pilots and upcoming documentaries such as The Girl In The Room, about women in comedy, and the forthcoming series Funny Boys, which explores the early days of The National Lampoon. Together, they co-produced and co-directed 13 episodes of "John Waters Presents Movies That Will Corrupt You."
Recently, Brandstein directed a multimedia theatrical adaptation of Anne Frank's Diary for The Museum Of Tolerance in Los Angeles. She has directed long-running hits including Not That Jewish with Monica Piper and Rain Pryor's Fried Chicken & Latkes. With over 75 theatrical productions directed across both coasts and Israel, her recent works include the two-year Off-Broadway hit Shut Up Sit Down & Eat, the New York 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 numerous Jewish Women's Theater productions such as 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. She helmed the Los Angeles and New York premieres of Barra Grant's Miss America's Ugly Daughter, centered on Grant's relationship with her mother, Bess Myerson.
In June 2022, her latest project, The Lost Weekend - A Love Story, premiered at the Tribeca Festival. Eve co-produced and co-directed this feature documentary chronicling John Lennon and May Pang's 18-month love affair from 1973 to 1975.
