Tahini and Tears Bios
Tahini and Tears Bios
Screenwriter, Olga Humphrey is a playwright and screenwriter. Her plays have been enthusiastically reviewed by such publications as the “New Yorker” and the “Boston Globe,” published, and performed internationally. This past spring, two of her plays received their premieres, in Buffalo and Boston (”I Used to Be Famous Once” and “Veronika Vavoom, Volcanologist”). In 2003, she was awarded a development grant by the LEF Foundation and a fellowship from IFP/New York. As a screenwriter, her work has been optioned and gained the interest of some well-known actors such as Parker Posey, Gretchen Mol, and Jared Harris. Currently, her screenplay “Tea With Pippa” is a finalist in an international screenwriting competition.
Producer,Robin Berla graduated from the prestigious film program at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in 1991. She has produced and directed a number of documentary and reality segments and programs for television, which have aired nationally on various networks, including VH-1, Food Network, and AMC. Recent projects include the Emmy-nominated Keeping Kids Healthy for PBS and Style Court, for style network and E! Entertainment Television. In addition, Robin has done extensive work in New York City’s independent film world as a producer, production manager and line producer. She served as line producer on the theatrical release, Being Claudine and has twice been a participant in RIPFest, in which 100 New York City filmmakers who have never met before are given just 16 days to collaborate on six completely original short films, from start to finish. In 1997 she co-founded Media Grrls, a bicoastal networking group for women working in media-related professions. In 2004 she was elected as Member At Large to the East Coast Chapter Executive Committee for the Producer’s Guild of America, in which she has been an active member since 2001.
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