elyse katz

Elyse has over 20 years of experience in film, documentaries, television, commercials, web, live-music shows, and promotional programming. Her work includes groundbreaking web content on DEN.net, the academy award winning documentary, The Last Days, and the overwhelmingly received concert and DVD Barbra Streisand One-Night Only Live at the Village Vanguard.

Ms. Katz has worked with directors and producers including Steven Spielberg, Barbet Schroeder, Michael Ritchie, Mark Pellington, Garry Marshall and the late Debra Hill, Laura Ziskin and Allen Klein. Her studio film credits include Pretty Woman, Single White Female, Big Top Pee Wee and Cops & Robbersons.

She has worked on numerous productions as a line producer, production manager, and
supervisor including the independent produced Going All the Way, Johns, Mohave Moon, Destiny Turns on the Radio; feature films, television series, music DVDs including Barbra Streisand One Night Only, Ringo Starr, Chris Botti Live, Warren Haynes, the Allman Brothers; music publishing at Abkco, national commercials including Honda & Bratz. She has also consulted for individual companies in management, production, logistics, budgeting and scheduling.

In addition to her film and music experiences, Ms. Katz also produces documentaries
Including, The Fire Within, the acclaimed Trudell, Bellyfruit and the Academy Award winning documentary The Last Days. She is currently producing Pell Grants: A Passion For Education,
To God’s Ears, and is the Exec Producer of Who Bombed Judi Bari?

Currently, Ms. Katz is the Project Manager for Collections and Testimonies at the USC Shoah Foundation Institute and recently produced the 2012 Cedar’s Sinai Board of Governors Gala live show.

Ms. Katz has worked in promotional and marketing programming on projects for True Blood, Life After Film School, television series In Front With Wal-Mart and worked as the EPK producer for the film Prestige and content for Universal Studios Tours. Early in her career she produced an AFI Director’s Workshop for Women (DWW) film, How Else Am I Suppose to Know I’m Alive and worked as a summer intern for the late Senator Claiborne Pell.