Victoria Larimore

Victoria Ann Larimore (born October 5, 1956) is an American film director, television director, producer, screenwriter, and playwright. She received an Emmy nomination for her 1992 work, "Saying Kaddish." She has also produced:The Amish: Not to Be Modern (1985),[1] An Empty Bed (1990),[2] Saying Kaddish (1992),[3] and the film noir thriller, Room 32 (2002).[4][5]

Victoria Larimore
Born
Lorain, Ohio, US
Alma materWashington University in St. Louis
Occupation
  • Director
  • Writer
  • Producer
Spouse(s)Michael Taylor (divorced 1991)
Parent(s)
  • Keith Larimore
  • Clarice Larimore
Websitewww.victorialarimore.com

Career

Larimore co-wrote a screenplay adaptation of Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye with her then husband Michael Taylor.[6] She went on to produce and direct the Emmy nominated Saying Kaddish (1991), An Empty Bed (1990),[7] Room 32 (2002), and has worked as a script and creative consultant on projects including the psychological thriller, 40 Sundays, directed by Geoffrey de Valois.

Larimore received the “Best Director, Comedy” award for Sawed in Half from the Noho Fringe Festival.[8] The play, which she co-wrote with Andrea Mezvinsky who was crowned “America’s Funniest Mom” on The Oprah Winfrey Show, received positive reviews and premiered at the Complex Theatre in Hollywood in May 2016.[9] It enjoyed a revival at the Acme Theatre, Noho, the following September.[10]

Personal life

She divorced from Michael Taylor in 1991.[11]

Filmography

Films
  • Slumber Party,[12] 1983 (writer/director/producer) - selected for viewing at the New York City Anthology Film Archives
  • Gloria: A Case of Alleged Police Brutality,[5] 1985 (writer) - dir. by Oren Rudavsky
  • The Amish: Not to Be Modern, 1985 (director/producer)
  • Bird/Bear, 1986 (co-director)[13]
  • An Empty Bed, 1990 (producer)
  • Saying Kaddish, 1991 (producer) - Emmy Award nominee for Outstanding Achievement in Directing
  • Pair of Jokers, 1992 (producer)
  • Room 32, 2002 (director)

Television
  • Alive from Off Center, 1989 (1 episode, writer), Ile Aiye/The House of Life
  • Looking East, 1991 (2 episodes, writer/director/producer)[14]
  • The Hidden Realm, 2003 (writer/director/producer)
  • Yue-Sai's World, 2006 (1 episode, writer/director/producer)
  • Outlaugh!, 2006 (director)[6]
  • The Mage, 2015 (creator)

Larimore has also worked in theater, and served as "Director in Residence" at the GuerrilLA Theatre[15] in Los Angeles, as well as premiering her self-directed play, Angel Dog, at The Producer's Club in Manhattan in 2010.

References
  1. "The Amish: Not to be Modern (1988)"
  2. "Movie Review: An Empty Bed"
  3. "Saying Kaddish (1991)"
  4. "Room 32 - Hitchcock Meets Twilight Zone"
  5. "Catalog - Gloria a case of alleged police brutality". North of Boston Library Exchange.
  6. "Alibris Library - Outlaugh". Alibris Library. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
  7. Larimore, Victoria. "Victoria Larimore - About This Person - Movies & TV". Retrieved 13 January 2015.
  8. The Los Angeles Beat, Website:http://thelosangelesbeat.com/2016/09/theater-review-sawed-in-half//
  9. The Toluca Times, Website:http://tolucantimes.info/theatre_review/double-your-pleasure-with-sawed-in-half-at-nohos-acme-theater//
  10. Noho Arts District, Website:http://nohoartsdistrict.com/theatres/theatre-reviews/item/4711-sawed-in-half//
  11. "Michael Taylor, Writer, Marries Victoria Larimore". Retrieved 13 January 2015.
  12. "21st Ann Arbor Film Festival Program". http://aaff.aadl.org. Ann Arbor Film Festival. Retrieved 11 February 2015. External link in |website= (help)
  13. Anderson, Jack (February 14, 1986). "DANCE: 'BIRD/BEAR' BY LEE NAGRIN". NY Times. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
  14. "Looking East"
  15. "GuerilLA Theatre - About Us"
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