JUDY CHAIKIN

About JUDY CHAIKIN

JUDY CHAIKIN - Director/Writer/Producer

Judy Chaikin is a graduate of AFI's Directing Workshop for Women and is best known for writing, producing and directing the Emmy nominated PBS documentary, LEGACY OF THE HOLLYWOOD BLACKLIST. In 2004 she received her second Emmy nomination for the documentary, BUILDING ON A DREAM.  She directed and co-wrote a short comedy film, COTILLION '65, starring Kate Linder, which appeared in numerous film festivals winning Best Short, Best Comedy, Best Director and Audience Choice Awards. Her current film THE GIRLS IN THE BAND premiered at Lincoln Center and was a NY Times Critics Pick.  The film won five Best Documentary Awards,  has a 100% Critics Rating on Rotten Apples and is showing across the U.S. and internationally.

Judy was a Supervising Producer/Director on the ABC series, FBI: THE UNTOLD STORIES, a Co-Producer of the CBS Movie Of The Week, STOLEN INNOCENCE, the Writer/Director of the bi-lingual PBS documentary, LOS PASTORES and was named Best New Music Video Director by Billboard Magazine in 1991. In 1996 she won the Blue Ribbon at the American Educational Film and TV Festival for the docu-drama, SOJOURNER TRUTH:AIN'T I A WOMAN, featuring Julie Harris.

Among her other television directing credits are the pilot for Nickelodeon's comedy series ON THE TELEVISION, starring George McGrath and Taylor Negron, Fox's AMERICAN FAMILIES, episodes of AMERICA'S MOST WANTED and the NBC Specials, TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE and THE HORATIO ALGER AWARDS.  For seven years she ran her own video company, producing and directing industrial and educational projects for numerous clients including The Red Cross, Met Life, School Based Clinics and The Grammy's.

Judy began her directing career in the theater with the political drama WOMAN SPEAK starring Jane Fonda. Her other stage directing work includes the comedy improv company, THE GROUNDLINGS, starring Lisa Kudrow, Phil Hartman and Jon Lovitz, the musical, TRUE ROMANCES at The Mark Taper Forum starring Peter Riegert and Tom Skeritt, , the one-woman show, EXCUSE ME I'M TALKING at Broadway’s, New Duke Theater, ROSE, at the Odyssey Theater and the All-Guild Commemoration, HOLLYWOOD REMEMBERS THE BLACKLIST, starring Billy Crystal, Kevin Spacey, Alfre Woodard, David Hyde Pearce and John Lithgow

Judy was born in East L.A., studied ballet and tap from the time she was five and also played piano and trumpet.  She speaks a little French and a lot of Spanish.  In 2016 she received The East Los Angeles Music and Arts Award for Creative Excellence at the Grammy Museum. 

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