Arthur Allan Seidelman

Arthur Allan Seidelman is an awardwinning American television film and theatre director and an occasional writer producer and actor Most of Seidelmans career has been spent in television directing movies such as Macbeth Like Mother Like Son The Strange Story of Sante and Kenny Kimes Poker Alice A Friendship in Vienna Grace and Glorie Harvest of Fire Kates Secret The Runaway and A Christmas CarolThe Musical episodes of series such as Fame The Paper Chase Knots Landing Hill Street Blues Magnum PI Murder She Wrote Trapper John MD LA Law and A Year in the Life among others and several episodes of the ABC Afterschool Special series The latter won him two Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Individual Direction in Childrens Programming He received additional Emmy nominations for Hill Street Blues I Love Liberty and as host of the PBS series Actors on Acting He also has won the Writers Guild of America Award for his contribution to the 1982 allstar variety special I Love Liberty featuring Barbra Streisand Shirley MacLaine Jane Fonda and Dionne Warwick as well as two Christopher Awards He has also won The Peabody Award the Humanitas Award The Western Heritage Award and numerous awards from international film festivals including the Milagro Award for the Best American Independent Film for The Sisters Seidelman most recently guest starred in the final episode of ER Seidelmans Broadway career has been less successful Billy a 1969 musical adaptation of Billy Budd closed on opening night Vieux Carré a 1977 play by Tennessee Williams ran for six performances and in 2003 Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks closed less than two months after it began previews He directed a revival of The Most Happy Fella for the New York City Opera in 1991 He has had considerable success offBroadway with acclaimed productions of The Ceremony of Innocence by Ronald Ribman Awake and Sing by Clifford Odets and Hamp by John Wilson among others He directed Madama Butterfly for Santa Barbara Opera and The Gypsy Princess for Opera Pacific In Los Angeles he has directed major revivals of Hair Of Thee I Sing Mack and Mabel The Boys From Syracuse Follies and others For regional theatres he has directed Cat on a Hot Tin Roof The Little Foxes A Man for All Seasons The Roar of the Greasepaint The Smell of the Crowd Romeo and Juliet Stop the World I Want to Get Off and The Tempest among others In addition he served as the Administrator of the Forum Theatre now the Mitzi Newhouse for the Repertory Theatre of Lincoln Center and as Artistic Director of Theatre Vanguard in Los Angeles Description above from the Wikipedia article Arthur Allan Seidelman licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia