PRODUCTION COMPANY
ARTHUR ALLAN SEIDELMAN
Director | Producer
Arthur has directed over 50 films and 20 television series. Arthur’s most recent film SIX DANCE LESSONS IN SIX WEEKS, stars Gena Rowlands, Cheyenne Jackson, Rita Moreno, and Jacki Weaver. Other feature films include THE SISTERS with Maria Bello, Elizabeth Banks, and Tony Goldwyn (which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, and was the recipient of numerous festival awards including the Milagro Award for best American Independent Film), WALKING ACROSS EGYPT with Ellen Burstyn, CHILDREN OF RAGE, ECHOES, and PUERTO VALLARTA SQUEEZE, starring Scott Glenn and Harvey Keitel. Arthur’s first feature, the iconic comedy, HERCULES IN NEW YORK, introduced Arnold Schwartzenegger to films. Regarded as one of the premier actor’s directors, Arthur has been responsible for providing career-shaping and initial roles to a long list of stars including Jennifer Garner, Emmy Rossum, Rob Lowe, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Ryan Phillippe, Helen Hunt, Alfrie Woodard, Dermott Mulroney, and Viola Davis, as well as directing major names including Elizabeth Taylor, Cicely Tyson, Angela Lansbury, Mary Tyler Moore, Burt Lancaster, Ellen Burstyn, Sammy Davis Jr., Gena Rowlands, and many others.
As one of a short-list of prestigious directors of films for television, Arthur’s award-winning productions include the Alan Menken and Lynn Ahrens film musical A CHRISTMAS CAROL starring Kelsey Grammer and Jane Krakowski, GRACE AND GLORIE starring Gena Rowlands and Diane Lane, THE SUMMER OF BEN TYLER starring James Woods and Elizabeth McGovern, HARVEST OF FIRE with Patty Duke, THE RUNAWAY with Dean Cain and Maya Angelou, LIKE MOTHER, LIKE SON starring Mary Tyler Moore, BY DAWN’S EARLY LIGHT with Richard Crenna, A FRIENDSHIP IN VIENNA with Jane Alexander and Ed Asner, THE KID WHO LOVED CHRISTMAS starring Cicely Tyson and Sammy Davis Jr., and POKER ALICE with Elizabeth Taylor.
Arthur directed many series for television including hits like MURDER SHE WROTE, L.A. LAW, HILL STREET BLUES, FAME, and MAGNUM P.I. Arthur’s Broadway and Off-Broadway credits include: Richard Alfieri’s SIX DANCE LESSONS IN SIX WEEKS on Broadway, in Los Angeles, and on London’s West End, THE MOST HAPPY FELLA for the New York City Opera, Jerry Herman’s MACK & MABEL at Lincoln Center, BILLY, HAMP, THE CEREMONY OF INNOCENCE, AWAKE AND SING, and Tennessee Williams’s Broadway production of VIEUX CARRÉ. Arthur’s other theater credits include CAROUSEL at the Hollywood Bowl, and OF THEE I SING, THE BOYS FROM SYRACUSE, FOLLIES, HAIR, KISMET, and MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG among many others. He has also directed THE GYPSY PRINCESS for Opera Pacific, MACK AND MABEL for the Goodspeed Opera, and MADAMA BUTTERFLY for the Santa Barbara Opera.
Honors include two Emmys, five Emmy nominations, the Grand Prize from the New York Film and Television Festival, prizes from the Chicago, San Francisco, Palm Springs, and Heartland Film Festivals, the Humanitas Award, Peabody Award, Western Heritage Award, and three Christopher Awards.
RICHARD ALFIERI
Screenwriter | Author
A graduate of Yale University, Alfieri began his professional career in New York City, where he studied with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse. His awards include two Writers Guild Awards and an Emmy nomination. His play Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks opened on Broadway at the Belasco Theater. The play premiered in Los Angeles and has since been translated into 12 languages and opened in over 20 countries with productions in cities including Berlin, Sydney, Melbourne, Vienna, Madrid, Tokyo, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Amsterdam, Budapest, Helsinki, Prague, Istanbul, Hamburg, Munich, Athens, Seoul, and London.
Alfieri has adapted Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks for feature film production later this year.
His play, suggested by Chekhov's Three Sisters (play), premiered in Los Los Angeles Alfieri adapted the play for feature film production, and it premiered as an Official Selection at New York’s Tribeca Film Festival and the Hollywood Film Festival.
Alfieri is currently writing a screenplay based on Tom Alibrandi’s novel, Killshot. He also received both a Writers Guild Award and an Emmy nomination for his work on Norman Lear’s American Broadcasting Company special I Love Liberty. He wrote the feature film Echoes and the novel Ricardo - Diary of a Matinee Idol, which he adapted into the screenplay Moonlight Blonde. He produced the feature film Rescue Maine and executive-produced the National Broadcasting Company film False Witness. He also wrote the film adaptation of Robert James Waller"s novel Puerto Vallarta Squeeze. As an actor, he starred on Broadway in Tennessee Williams" Vieux Carre, and off-Broadway in Awake and Sing, and The Justice Box. His film credits include Children of Rage as well as episodes of Magnum Principal Investigator, Trapper John Doctor of Medicine and Stories from the Bible.
SIMON MILLER
Screenwriter | Producer | Actor
Simon holds a degree in philosophy and aesthetics from the University of Chicago, and was an art director and fashion photographer at the New York fashion advertising agency that he co-owned for 8 years. Simon was co-producer on the recent film SIX DANCE LESSONS IN SIX WEEKS. Simon is also an actor who has appeared in such shows as GOSSIP GIRL, VAMPIRE DIARIES, and CSI: MIAMI.