Matthew Penn | |
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Born | 1959 (age 64–65) |
Alma mater | Wesleyan University |
Occupation(s) | Television/theatre director, producer |
Years active | 1976–present |
Matthew Penn (born 1959) is an American director and television and film producer. His father was Arthur Penn, a film and theatre director. His mother was actress Peggy Maurer. He grew up in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and New York City.
Prior to beginning work in television, Penn spent many years working as an actor and director in theatre and is currently a co-artistic director of the Berkshire Playwrights Lab located in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. [1] [2]
Penn has directed and produced over 150 prime-time TV dramas. Some of his directorial credits include NYPD Blue , Law & Order , New York Undercover , Brooklyn South , The Sopranos , House , Damages , The Closer , and Royal Pains . He was nominated for an Emmy Award in 1999 for directing the 200th episode of Law & Order , guest-starring Julia Roberts. He was an executive producer of Law & Order from 2003 to 2007 [3] and Queen of the South in 2016. [4]
Leo Zalman Penn was an American television director and actor. He was the father of musician Michael Penn and actors Sean and Chris Penn.
Arthur Hiller Penn was an American filmmaker, theatre director, and producer. He was a Tony Award winner, and was nominated for three Academy Awards for Best Director, as well as a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe, two Primetime Emmys. As a member of the New Hollywood movement, Penn directed several critically-acclaimed films dealing with countercultural issues of the late 1960s and 1970s, notably the drama The Chase (1966), the biographical crime film Bonnie and Clyde (1967), the comedy Alice's Restaurant (1969), and the revisionist Western Little Big Man (1970).
John Victor Shea III is an American actor, film producer, and stage director. His career began on Broadway where he starred in Yentl, subsequently winning his first major award, the 1975 Theatre World Award. Shortly after his Off-Broadway career began, Lee Strasberg invited Shea to join the Actors Studio where he spent several years studying method acting.
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Roger Hendricks Simon is an American theater and film actor, producer, and director. He is best known for his roles as Bernie Jacobs in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps and Fergal O'Reilly in Love in Kilnerry and Mac in Linoleum. He is a graduate and founding member of Robert Brustein's Yale Repertory Company. Simon went on to direct London's Royal Court Theatre, Dublin's Abbey Theatre, Edinburgh Festival, the Lincoln Center, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Roundabout Theater, the Juilliard Opera, the Los Angeles Theatre Center, the Williamstown Theatre Festival, the O'Neill Playwrights Conference, the Folger Shakespeare Group, Metromedia and BBC Television. He is Founding Artistic Director of The Simon Studio in NYC in 1978 and the Founding Artistic Director of L.A. Classical Theatre Lab in 1990, a member and moderator of the Actors Studio Playwrights and Directors Unit in NYC 1991 - 2023 -
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