Writing
Doris Baizley
Place of birth
Portland, Maine, USA
Known for
Writing
Credits
2 titles
Doris Baizley (playwright) was born in Portland Maine, raised in Philadelphia, and lives in Los Angeles where she teaches at Loyola Marymount University. She is a founding member of LA Theaterworks (originally Artists in Prison). She was resident playwright at the Mark Taper Forum’s company for young audiences and dramaturg for its Other Voices Program for theater artists with disabilities. Her plays have been developed and produced at the Mark Taper Forum, ACT Seattle, the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, History Theater, The Salt Lake Acting Company and internationally at the Semafor Theater in Prague and the Icon Theater in Taipei. Her most recent work is community-based theater and document…
Known for
6.7As a visually radical memoir, CAMERAPERSON draws on the remarkable footage that filmmaker Kirsten Johnson has shot and reframes it in ways that illuminate moments and situations that have personally affected her. What emerges is an elegant meditation on the relationship between truth and the camera frame, as Johnson transforms scenes that have been presented on Festival screens as one kind of truth into another kind of story—one about personal journey, craft, and direct human connection.
Cameraperson
2016
1.0Artist Emile Norman is the subject of this compelling documentary profile, which chronicles the 88-year-old's personal life as an "out" gay man long before it was the norm, as well as his lifelong dedication to his art. Norman, whose mixed-media works include the grand marble relief and ornate mosaic window of San Francisco's Masonic Auditorium, found success in New York but retreated to Big Sur, Calif., where he founded an artists' haven.
Emile Norman: By His Own Design
2007
Behind the camera
6.7As a visually radical memoir, CAMERAPERSON draws on the remarkable footage that filmmaker Kirsten Johnson has shot and reframes it in ways that illuminate moments and situations that have personally affected her. What emerges is an elegant meditation on the relationship between truth and the camera frame, as Johnson transforms scenes that have been presented on Festival screens as one kind of truth into another kind of story—one about personal journey, craft, and direct human connection.
Cameraperson
2016
1.0Artist Emile Norman is the subject of this compelling documentary profile, which chronicles the 88-year-old's personal life as an "out" gay man long before it was the norm, as well as his lifelong dedication to his art. Norman, whose mixed-media works include the grand marble relief and ornate mosaic window of San Francisco's Masonic Auditorium, found success in New York but retreated to Big Sur, Calif., where he founded an artists' haven.
Emile Norman: By His Own Design
2007