ABOUT
DORI BERINSTEIN
Dori Berinstein is a six-time Tony-winning Broadway producer and an Emmy-award-winning director/producer.
As a filmmaker, Dori’s work includes:Dori’s award-winning documentary work includes: “A Man with Sole: The Impact of Kenneth Cole”, “ShowBusiness: The Road To Broadway” (IDA Finalist), “Carol Channing: Larger Than Life” (NYT – Favorite Films of the Century) “Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love” (Emmy Award) and “Gotta Dance”. Dori is Executive Producer of Isaac Mizrahi’s “Unzipped”, “Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story” and producer of Ryan Murphy’s Netflix film “The Prom”, adapted from Dori’s Broadway Musical (Golden Globe Nominee).
Dori’s Broadway productions include: “Stereophonic” (Tony Award), “Company” (Tony Award), “Is This A Room”, “Dana H”, “The Prom” (Drama Desk), “Legally Blonde” (Olivier Award), “Virginia Woolf” (Tony Award), “Thoroughly Modern Millie” (Tony Award), “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest” (Tony Award), “The Crucible” and “Fool Moon” (Tony Award).
Dori executive produced and/or supervised “Dirty Dancing” (the original film and TV series), Jim Henson’s “MuppetVision 3-D” and she EP’d websites for Oprah and President Clinton. Dori also produced and directed “The Isaac Mizrahi Show” and “Eavesdropping with Alan Cumming”. She also served as an executive and/or producer for Dreamworks Theatricals, Paramount Pictures, Warner Brothers, Sony Pictures, NBC, MTV, Nickelodeon, Sesame Workshop, Oxygen and Vestron Pictures. As a Walt Disney Imagineer, Dori oversaw Walt Disney’s Theme Park Productions film division.
Dori is the recipient of Broadway’s Robert Whitehead Award for Outstanding Achievement in Commercial Theatre Producing and the Jacob Burns Vision Award. She curates and moderates The Jacob Burns Media Center’s “Life On Stage” series, co-founded Camp Broadway and produces artist Justin Robertson’s Lights of Broadway Trading Cards. She also co-founded the Webby-Award-Winning The Broadway Podcast Network.
Dori’s Board work includes: The Broadway League’s Board of Governors, the Jacob Burns Film Center and New Dramatists. Dori began her career as an Investment Banker in Mergers & Acquisitions for Morgan Stanley.
