Matthew Diamond

Matthew Diamond (born November 26, 1951 in Manhattan , New York City ) is an American film and television director , film producer and choreographer .

Life

Matthew Diamond grew up in New York City and graduated from the City College of New York with a Bachelor of Arts . He then attended the High School of Performing Arts . His career began in 1970 as a dancer for Louis Falco's dance company. From 1975 to 1976 he worked for Jennifer Muller / The Works and in 1978 for the Batsheva Dance Company in Tel Aviv . He then switched to choreography, initially for the Bat-Dor Dance Company, then he and Maria Loffredo set up their own dance company "Diamond". During this time he also worked as a director for Children's Free Opera. He also worked as a choreographer for the Washington Ballet . His choreographies have been performed at Carnegie Hall , Jacob's Pillow Dance and the Brooklyn Academy of Music , among others . The future choreographer Tere O'Connor worked as a dancer for Diamond.

Diamond was nominated for a documentary Oscar to direct the film Dancemaker . With the same film he won the "Film & Video - The Arts" award of the San Francisco International Film Festival . He has also won an Emmy and several Daytime Emmys and DGA Awards .

Awards

• 1985: Daytime Emmy - Outstanding Drama Series Directing Team for Springfield Story
• 1989: Daytime Emmy - Outstanding Directing in a Children's Series for Shining Time Station
• 1996: DGA Award - Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Musical / Variety for Some Enchanted Evening: Celebrating Oscar Hammerstein II
• 1998: International Documentary Association Award for Dancemaker (with Jerry Kupfer and Walter Scheuer )
• 1999: Oscar nomination for Best Documentary - Dancemmaker (with Jerry Kupfer)
• 1999: Golden Spire of the San Francisco International Film Festival for Dancemakers
• 2000: Emmy - Outstanding Classical Music-Dance Program for Great Performances: Dance in America
• 2003: DGA Award - Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Musical / Variety for Great Performances: Dance in America
• 2006: Daytime Emmy - Outstanding Drama Series Directing Team for General Hospital
• 2006: DGA Award - Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Musical / Variety for Great Performances: Dance in America

Filmography (selection)

• 1987-1989: Family Ties (Family Ties) (14 episodes)
• 1987–1988: Man doesn't have to be ( Designing Women , 3 episodes)
• 1990–1991: Golden Girls (21 episodes)
• 1992–2008: Great Performances (8 episodes)
• 1998: Dancemaker
• 2001: These Old Broads
• 2001–2005: Great Performances: Dance in America (TV show, 3 episodes)
• 2003–2005: Gilmore Girls (TV series, 6 episodes)
• 2008: Camp Rock
• 2009: So You Think You Can Dance (TV show, 15 episodes)
• 2012–2013: 90210 (TV series, 3 episodes)
• 2011–2013: The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (TV shows, 3 episodes)

Web links

• Matthew Diamond in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Mark Diamond, 1951- . Retrieved January 14, 2012.
2. ^ Matthew Diamond Biography . Retrieved January 14, 2012.