"Mitchell Zuckoff's biography of this charming rogue ... provokes our wonder precisely because his subject is so brazen - and yet so naively captive to his own illusions." - Roger Lowenstein, The Wall Street Journal
Based in New York City, Jean Doumanian Productions produces works for film and theatre. Under the leadership of Ms. Doumanian, the company has produced films by David Mamet (The Spanish Prisoner), David Gordon Green (All the Real Girls), Woody Allen (Bullets Over Broadway, Everyone Says I Love You, Mighty Aphrodite, Deconstructing Harry, Sweet and Lowdown, Celebrity, and Small Time Crooks), Barbara Kopple (Wild Man Blues), and Jason Alexander (Just Looking). The company's productions have been nominated for multiple Academy Awards and Golden Globes, including Sven Nykvist's The Ox, which was nominated for an Academy Award for best foreign language film. Currently, Jean Doumanian Productions is a lead producer on August: Osage County on Broadway. Written by Tracy Letts, August won five 2008 Tony Awards including Best Play and earned the 2008 Pulitzer Prize. The company's other Broadway credits include Tom Stoppard's Jumpers, Michael Frayn's Democracy, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune and Amour, and Off-Broadway highlights include The Great American Trailer Park Musical, Fuddy Meers, Bat Boy the Musical, Things You Shouldn't Say Past Midnight, Dinah Was, and Death Defying Acts.
Starry Night Entertainment is a privately financed bicoastal production company dedicated to bridging the worlds of stage and screen. Headed by Craig Saavedra and Michael Shulman, the Company's debut feature film Sherman's Way (www.shermansway.com) will be released through InFC in March on the heals of Starry Night's stage debut, the Off-Broadway play White People (www.whitepeopletheplay.com) by J.T. Rogers, opening at Atlantic Stage 2 February 3rd. Other projects include the feature adaptation of Josh Hartwell's play Contrived Ending, lensing in summer, '09, and Gary Sunshine's feature adaptation Moscows, loosely based on Chekhov's The Three Sisters.
