- Jean Doumanian
Jean Doumanian is a producer for film and theatre. Her company, Jean Doumanian Productions, is based in New York City. A native of Chicago, Illinois, Doumanian resides in New York City.
FILMSJean Doumanian Productions 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 The Ox, directed by Sven Nykvist, was nominated for an Academy Award for best foreign language film.Doumanian, a lead producer on the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning August: Osage County, has acquired the feature film rights to the play, along with the rest of its lead producing team. Jean Doumanian Productions will produce the project along with Steve Traxler. Jeffrey Richards and Jerry Frankel will executive produce. Playwright Tracy Letts, who won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for August, has signed on to write the adapted script. Jean Doumanian Productions will also produce a feature film adaptation of the Olivier Award-winning and Off-Broadway hit play Blackbird. Blackbird playwright David Harrower is set to write the adapted screenplay. Blackbird won the 2007 Olivier Award for Best New Play. It premiered at the Edinburgh International Festival in 2005 followed by a run at the Albery Theatre in London’s West End. Jeff Daniels and Alison Pill starred in Blackbird’s U.S. premiere production, directed by Joe Montello, which ran at the Manhattan Theater Club in 2007. Actress Cate Blanchett chose to direct Blackbird for the Sydney Theatre Company in 2007, as well.
BROADWAY
Jean Doumanian Productions is a lead producer on the Broadway production of August: Osage County. The winner of five 2008 Tony Awards, including Best Play, and the 2008 Pulitzer Prize, August premiered in summer of 2007 at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre and moved to Broadway in December 2007. The national tour of August launches in Summer 2009. August will also begin an eight week engagement at London’s National Theatre in November 2008.In addition to August: Osage County, Jean Doumanian Productions’ previous Broadway credits include Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (nominated for a Tony Award in 2002), Tom Stoppard’s Jumpers, Michael Frayn’s Democracy, and Amour.
OFF-BROADWAY
Jean Doumanian Productions’ Off-Broadway credits 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. In 2008, Jean Doumanian Productions announced a partnership with Barrow Street Theatre-- a 200 seat venue in New York City’s West Village to bring new work to Off-Broadway.
Woody Allen
Doumanian had a nearly 40-year friendship and professional relationship with
Woody Allen . He is said to have called the SNL studios regularly during her brief tenure there, and cast memberAnn Risley had had a bit role in "Stardust Memories ". She taught him how to dance in the 1960s, defended him through various scandals, and he saved her life in 1992 when she was choking on a piece of bread Fact|date=June 2008.After leaving SNL, she was an executive producer for several of his films:
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Bullets Over Broadway " (1994)
*"Mighty Aphrodite " (1995)
*"Everyone Says I Love You " (1996)
*"Deconstructing Harry " (1997)
*"Celebrity" (1998)
*"Sweet and Lowdown " (1999)
*"Small Time Crooks " (2000)She was also a producer for a 1994 made-for-television film "Don't Drink the Water" and the 1997 documentary "
Wild Man Blues ", a film about a tour undertaken by Allen's jazz band.In May 2001 many were stunned when he filed a [http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,10088,00.html lawsuit] against Doumanian and her partner
Jacqui Safra , claiming their production company had skimmed $12 million of profits off of the movies. She countersued, claiming he had cheated them out of $19 million. The two sides settled in 2002, but the friendship was shattered.Broadway
In 2002, Doumanian was a producer for a Broadway revival of "
Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune ", which was nominated for a Tony Award. In 2004, Doumanian was a producer of the Broadway premiere of the play "Democracy" byMichael Frayn .External links
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