Barnet Kellman was born on November 9,1947 and is an American theatre, television and film director, television producer and film actor, and educator, best known for the premiere productions of new American plays, and for the pilots of long-running television series such as Murphy Brown and Mad About You.
16 Facts About Barnet Kellman
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Barnet Kellman is the recipient of two Emmy Awards and a Directors Guild of America Award.
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Barnet Kellman was born in New York City, and raised in suburban Long Island.
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Barnet Kellman attended Yale School of Drama, eventually earning his Ph.
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Barnet Kellman began as an actor, joining Actors' Equity at age nineteen.
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Barnet Kellman was an Associate Director of the Williamstown Theatre Festival and, for ten years, a regular director at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center's National Playwrights Conference associated with works by Shanley, Lee Blessing and Richard Dresser.
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Barnet Kellman is a past board member of the Society of Directors and Choreographers.
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Barnet Kellman got his start in the early 1980s as a director for soap operas such as the NBC-TV daytime soap opera series Another World and CBS's As the World Turns.
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Barnet Kellman directed the Showtime adaptation of the long-running Broadway play Gemini and the CBS special Orphans, Waifs and Wards.
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Barnet Kellman made his feature film directorial debut with the 20th Century Fox screen adaptation of Key Exchange, which starred Brooke Adams.
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In 1999, Barnet Kellman directed the Murphy Brown finale episode, "Never Can Say Goodbye".
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Barnet Kellman won Emmy Awards in 1990 and 1992 for his work.
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Barnet Kellman directed fifty pilots, half of which went to series, launching long runs such as NBC's Mad About You, Suddenly Susan, and George Lopez.
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Barnet Kellman went on to direct Disney's 1992's Straight Talk starring Dolly Parton as a sultry, wise-cracking DJ, and the Tri-Star release Slappy and the Stinkers for Sony Pictures in 1998.
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When Murphy Brown returned to the CBS schedule for an eleventh season in 2018, Barnet Kellman returned to direct the season finale.
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In 2008, during a Writers Guild strike, Barnet Kellman joined the film faculties of the American Film Institute and the University of Southern California.