JEAN DOUMANIAN (producer)  
JEAN DOUMANIAN (Producer) has had a long and successful career in film, theater and television. Most recently, Ms. Doumanian produced Woody Allen's new film, "Deconstructing Harry," which opened the Venice Film Festival and will be released in late 1997. Also at Venice was another of Ms. Doumanian's productions, "Wild Man Blues," a new documentary on Mr. Allen by Academy Award winning filmmaker Barbara Kopple. Ms. Doumanian was Executive Producer of several of Allen's previous films, including "Everyone Says I Love You," "Mighty Aphrodite" (which received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress) and "Bullets Over Broadway" (which received seven Academy Award nominations and won for Best Supporting Actress).

Ms. Doumanian's upcoming productions include Woody Allen's new fall project; a film written and directed by two young filmmakers, Sean Smith and Anthony Stark, entitled "Element;" "Dinah Was," a play about Dinah Washington, written by Oliver Goldstick and directed by David Petrarca; and two new films in pre-production, "The Story of a Bad Boy" and "Cherry Pink."

Ms. Doumanian also produced Sven Nykvist's "The Ox," an Academy Award-nominated film which starred Liv Ullman and Max Von Sydow, as well as a number of projects outside of the film arena which have garnered a great deal of praise. The Off Broadway staging of "Death Defying Acts," featuring three one-act plays by Allen, David Mamet and Elaine May and produced by Ms. Doumanian, broke box office records, and Woody Allen's first film for television, "Don't Drink the Water," was executive produced by Ms. Doumanian. As a producer of "Saturday Night Live," she discovered Eddie Murphy, among others. Ms. Doumanian also produced the classic TV special "Bob and Ray, Jane and Gilda," and received an Emmy for "The Dick Cavett show." Jean Doumanian Productions is based in New York City.

Filmography:
"The Ox" (1991, dir. Sven Nykvist)
"Bullets Over Broadway" (1994, dir. Woody Allen)
"Mighty Aphrodite" (1995 dir. Woody Allen)
"Everyone Says I Love You" (1996, dir. Woody Allen)
"Deconstructing Harry" (1997, dir. Woody Allen)
"Wild Man Blues" (1997, dir. Barbara Kopple)
"The Spanish Prisoner" (1998, dir. David Mamet)


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