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“Adrienne [has] been invaluable to my career. I learned everything from analyzing scripts to giving clear, playable direction to taking risks and having fun" - Jennifer Getzinger, Director, Mad Men, Orange Is the New Black, How to Get Away with Murder
A graduate of Yale, Adrienne Weiss began her career as a theater director but decided to become a filmmaker after realizing that in film she could combine her three great passions - riveting storytelling, powerful images, and raw, intimate performance. Love, Ludlow, her debut director, premiered at Sundance and starred David Eigenberg (Sex and the City) Brendan Sexton III (Boys Don’t Cry, Russian Doll), and Alicia Goranson (Roseanne). The film was screened at over 30 festivals worldwide, was released by Time/Warner DVD, and was broadcast on Sundance Channel, Starz, and many other cable networks. Adrienne has written and is currently in development for her second feature film, FREE.
Adrienne has taught private Directing Actors workshops in New York, Los Angeles, and London for over 20 years. She has also taught for many years at the Columbia University Film Program and at the NYU Grad Film program. Early in her career, Adrienne worked as an acting coach, guiding Joan Cusack to her Oscar-nominated role in In and Out. Since then she has worked regularly as a Directing Actors coach and script consultant for feature films, television, and commercials. Recent projects include Bridgerton Season 2 (dir. Tricia Brock), Silverton Siege (dir. Mandla Dube, Netflix) Lost Girls (dir. Liz Garbus, Netflix), The Farnsworth House (Ralph Fiennes, Elizabeth Debicki, dir. Richard Press). Past favorites include Down In The Valley (Ed Norton, Ellen Burstyn, dir. David Jacobson), May In The Summer (dir. Cherien Dabis, Sundance Opening Night), and The Bad Intentions (dir. Rosario Garcia-Montero) along with episodes of Betty, Girls, Ray Donovan, American Horror Story, Orange Is The New Black, 30 Rock, Damages, In Treatment and Law & Order among many others. Prior to her work in film, Adrienne directed numerous theater productions at venues including The New York Shakespeare Festival, Circle Rep, The Women’s Project, Naked Angels, and La Mama. With composer Carter Burwell (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, No Country for Old Men) she co-founded the theater company The Sticking Place and together she and Burwell co-wrote and she directed a series of fabulist music theater pieces. She also directed the premiere of the jazz opera Golem at the Hoebbel Theater in Berlin and a series of classic American musicals in Poland.
Since 2002, Adrienne has been training as a Buddhist meditation teacher. Her training and practice inform all aspects of her work as a director, writer, teacher, and consultant.