Arthur Allan Seidelman is an award-winning American television, film, and theatre director and an occasional writer, producer and actor. Most of Seidelman's 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, Kate's Secret, The Runaway, and A Christmas Carol-The Musical; episodes of series such as Fame, The Paper Chase, Knots Landing, Hill Street Blues, Magnum, P.I., Murder, She Wrote, Trapper John, M.D., L.A. 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 Children's 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 all-star 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. Seidelman's 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 off-Broadway 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 CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Biography
Career
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2014
Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks as Director
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2008
The Awakening of Spring as Director
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2007
The Kidnapping as Director
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Two Spirits, One Journey as Director
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2005
The Sisters as Director
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2004
A Christmas Carol: The Musical as Director
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2003
Puerto Vallarta Squeeze as Director
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2001
By Dawn's Early Light as Director
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2000
The Runaway as Director
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Sex & Mrs. X as Director
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1999
Walking Across Egypt as Director
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1998
Grace & Glorie as Director
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1997
Deep Family Secrets as Director
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Miracle in the Woods as Director
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1996
The Summer of Ben Tyler as Director
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Harvest of Fire as Director
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1994
Trapped in Space as Director
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1993
Dying to Remember as Director
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Rescue Me as Director
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1992
Body Language as Director
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1990
The Kid Who Loved Christmas as Director
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1989
False Witness as Director
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1988
The People Across the Lake as Director
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A Friendship in Vienna as Director
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Addicted to His Love as Director
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1987
The Caller as Director
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Glory Years as Director
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Strange Voices as Director
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Poker Alice as Director
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1986
Kate's Secret as Director
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Sin of Innocence as Director
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1985
Half Nelson as Director
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1982
Echoes as Director
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1981
CBS Afternoon Playhouse as Director
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Macbeth as Director
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1975
Children of Rage as Director, Writer
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1970
Hercules in New York as Director