JOHN STEINMETZ
DIRECTOR - Television (Live & Tape), Videos, Documentaries, Theater
ABC / PBS / WNET / WNEW / WPIX / COMMERCIALS / CABLE / THEATER
Arts & Entertainment Cable Network - American Playwrights Theater
• "27 Wagons Full of Cotton" by Tennessee Williams
with Leslie Ann Warren, Ray Sharky, Peter Boyle
• "The Pool Hall" by Marsha Norman
with James Earl Jones, Mario Van Peebles
• "Let Me Hear You Whisper" by Paul Zindel
with Jean Stapleton, Rue McClanahan, David Doyle
• Other cable drama: "The Interview" with Eli Wallach
"TILT, TILT"
ABC Television Network - (Most ABC shows at one time or another)
Some Highlights:
Ryan’s Hope
One Life To Live
All My Children
Liberty Weekend (foreign feed)
American Hostages Rescue Mission
President Nixon's Resignation
Election & Convention Coverage
Presidential Inaugurations
Space & Moon Shots
The Assassination of Senator Robert Kennedy
The Assassination of JFK (3 days)
Dick Clark's Rockin' New Year’s Eve
The Dick Cavett Show (series)
The Tony Awards (specials)
Network promos (:60, :30, :20, :IO spots)
Channel13/WNET (PBS):
A Reichstag for the German People
The Berlin Wall
The Art of Film (In Berlin)
The Hansaviertel
The Evening News
The Cuban Missile Crises
UN Coverage with Adlai Stevenson
Residue Director
Other Videos:
"Earth's Elders"
“Performers Ripening With Age”
"You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To"
"An Evening With Pecola"
"The Story Of The Red Leather Diary"
"On 46th Street"
“Community Concerns”
Instructed Audio-Video techniques at City College NY
Honorary judge of ACE, DGA, Emmys.
Elected officer - Directors Guild of America.
Fluent in German - Directed in Berlin
City College of NY t the High School of Performing Arts
Unique traits: Have acted in German and in English. (fluently)
AWARD OF VALOR
(1996)
CUNY Baruch College
(1948-1951)