Council Biography

Myrl Schreibman is an award-winning producer-director whose credits include Broadway, television, and independent features. He was recognized by the New York Tony Awards for his production of The Ice Show at BroadwayÕs Palace Theater, and was the creative force behind the Budd Schulberg play, On the Waterfront. He has worked at the Cleveland Playhouse and countless theaters in Southern California, where he most recently directed a successful production of The Fantasticks and the award-winning play, The Subject Was Roses. His career also includes productions for the concert stage with such artists as Gladys Knight; Tony Bennet; Earth, Wind & Fire and Three Dog Night.

Having been under contract to Paramount, Columbia, and Universal studios, Myrl's extensive television experience includes episodic television and the award-winning The Girl, the Gold Watch and Everything, as well as countless television variety specials with such artists as Debbie Reynolds, Tony Bennet, Chicago and Nancy Wilson. He was the producer of many features, including the award-winning cult film, The Clonus Horror, and HunterÕs Blood, which is one basis of the acclaimed critical studies textbook on the horror film genre, Men, Women and Chainsaws, published by Princeton University Press.

He has produced and directed many projects for the Department of Defense, including a film on hostage survival that was shown to the pilots during the Gulf War. He has written papers on television and its various impacts in the industry, and is currently working on a book titled The Independent ProducerÕs Handbook, to be published by Lone Eagle Publications in 2001.

A leading authority on creative line producing, Mr. Schreibman is on the faculty of UCLAÕs Department of Film and Television and has taught courses in producing and directing in various countries in the world.

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