Mitch S. Levine

Mitch is a film and stage director, designer and actor with credits the world over in theatre, opera and dance. He just completed a directing fellowship at the American Film Institute, where he was the recipient of the first AFI/American Express James Cameron Scholarship for Directing. At the AFI, he directed two short films, COLETTE, based on the French writer, and STALE IDENTITY, an homage to Hitchcock and film noir, before embarking on the production of SHADOWS, an exploration of love, family and the attraction of evil during the Holocaust. SHADOWS was the Short Film Winner at the Telluride IndieFest, has been awarded the Grand Prize at the Rhode Island International Film Festival, the Silver Prize at the Palm Springs International Film Festival, the Bronze Award at the Houston Worldfest, the Angelus Award for Audience Impact at the Directors Guild of America, the Humanitarian Prize at the Cleveland International Film Festival and the American Society of Cinematographers Gregg Toland Heritage Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography.

Mr. Levine designed the world premieres of PAURA DI VOLARE at the TEATRO ALLA SCALA in Milan and of Peter Gabriel and Moses Pendleton''s PASSION in London and New York. His work has been seen with the dance-theatre company MOMIX and at Manhattan''s Lincoln Center, the Sydney Opera House, Sadler''s Wells in London, the Ronacher Theatre in Vienna, Artsphere in Tokyo, the Teatro Liceu in Barcelona, the Teatro Olimpico in Rome, the Metropolitan Theatre in Rio and the Maisón dès Arts in Paris and Lyon. He assisted renowned avant-garde director Robert Wilson in the restaging of his opera (with Philip Glass) EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH and supervised its world tour. Mr. Levine directed the revivals of Jean Anouilh''s ANTIGONE at the Williamstown Theatre Festival; Lyle Kessler''s ORPHANS in New York; and David Mamet''s VINT, Maria Irene Fornes'' Drowning, Arthur Kopit''s WINGS, and Cynthia Lee’’s A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM in Los Angeles.

Mitch has a degree in Political Science from Hobart College in New York. He served on the staff of the Juilliard School following a fellowship there and is currently on the faculty of the University of Judaism in Los Angeles, teaching in the departments of Art, Literature and Political Science. In addition to his work in the arts, Mitch was the Chairman of the World Conference on Disarmament and served as a special representative to the United Nations.