Dori Berinstein

Dori Berinstein

Personal Details

Spouse
  • Mitchell Cannold

    ( Dec 31, 1969 to May 12, 2025 )
  • Craig Wasserman

    ( Aug 18, 1985 to May 12, 2025 )
  • Craig Mitchell Wasserman

    ( Aug 18, 1985 to May 12, 2025 )

Biography

Dori Berinstein is a renowned six-time Tony Award-winning Broadway producer, an Olivier Award winner, and an Emmy Award-winning director, producer, and writer of film and television. As a documentary filmmaker, Berinstein's impressive body of work includes award-winning projects such as "A Man with Sole: The Impact of Kenneth Cole", "ShowBusiness: The Road To Broadway", "Carol Channing: Larger Than Life", "Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love" (Emmy Award),"The Show Must Go On", and "The Last Blintz".

Berinstein's Broadway productions are equally impressive, boasting a list of credits that includes "Stereophonic" (Tony Award),"Company" (Tony Award),"Is This A Room", "Dana H", "The Prom" (Drama Desk Award),"Legally Blonde" (Olivier Award),"Virginia Woolf" (Tony Award),"Thoroughly Modern Millie" (Tony Award),"One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" (Tony Award),"Flower Drum Song", "The Crucible", "Golden Child", "Big", and "Fool Moon" (Tony Award).

In television, Berinstein has directed and produced "Joshua Bell: Music at Home", and directed, produced, and created the TV series "Eavesdropping with Alan Cumming" and all four seasons of "The Isaac Mizrahi Show".

As an executive, Berinstein has overseen over 50 feature, special effects, and/or animated productions, including Isaac Mizrahi's award-winning documentary "Unzipped", "Dirty Dancing" (both the feature film and TV series),and Jim Henson's "MuppetVision 3-D". She has also produced Ryan Murphy's adaptation of her Broadway musical "The Prom" for Netflix (Golden Globe Nominee) and has executive produced websites for Oprah and President Clinton.

Berinstein has worked as a producer and/or executive for various major studios and networks, including Paramount Pictures, Warner Brothers, Sony Pictures, NBC, MTV, Nickelodeon, Sesame Workshop, Oxygen Media, Vestron Pictures, and Walt Disney Imagineering. She has received numerous awards and honors for her work, including Broadway's Robert Whitehead Award for Outstanding Achievement in Commercial Theatre Producing and the Jacob Burns Vision Award.

In addition to her impressive career, Berinstein is the co-founder and CEO of The Broadway Podcast Network, the preeminent home for Broadway-related digital storytelling. She serves on the Broadway League's Board of Governors, as well as the New Dramatists and Jacob Burns Board of Directors. Berinstein began her professional career as an investment banker in mergers and acquisitions for Morgan Stanley.

Career

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2013
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2012
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Gotta Dance
Gotta Dance as Director
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2007