Bio
HILAN WARSHAW is a filmmaker, writer, and video editor. In addition to his media work, he has a background in musical performance and theater. He has a B.F.A. and M.F.A. from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.
Scene from The Laborer: Music-Cinema #1.
Directing The Laborer.
Through his production company, Overtone Films, LLC (founded 2010), Hilan produces performance videos and other films related to music and the arts. He also directed and wrote SHARE: A Gift of Life, a short documentary about an NGO combating AIDS in Kenya. He is on the Video Arts faculty at Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts.
Hilan's video editing credits include the PBS documentaries Shadows in Paradise: Hitler's Exiles in Hollywood, In the Key of G, and Great Conversations in Music (mini-series), and videos for Carnegie Hall, the Metropolitan Opera, the Library of Congress, and Rethink Autism. He also co-wrote and researched A Workshop for Peace, a PBS documentary about the architecture of the United Nations headquarters in New York, commissioned by the UN to mark its 50th anniversary.
His published writing includes research articles about the relationship between film and Wagnerian opera, published by McFarland Press and The Wagner Journal (forthcoming in November). He has also written program notes and articles about music for Carnegie Hall. He has lectured about film and opera at Hofstra University and the Wagner Society of New York;
upcoming lectures include the Boston Wagner Society and NYU's Deutsches Haus.
He is also an experienced librettist for works of concert music and musical theater. He has frequently collaborated with his sister, composer Dalit Warshaw, writing texts for musical pieces that have been performed by various orchestras and broadcast on WQXR-FM. His other librettos include Songs of Rebirth (music by Lera Auerbach; published by Sikorski Music Publishers); Carnival of the Animals (commissioned and premiered by the American Youth Symphony, narrated by Marni Nixon), and the full-length musical Summerset, written as a Master’s thesis at NYU.
A violinist from an early age, Hilan began studying conducting while in his teens, conducting orchestras including the New York Youth Symphony at Carnegie Hall. Before attending NYU for film, he studied conducting at Mannes College of Music and the Aspen Music School.
Hilan lives in New York City with his wife, Katya Stanislavskaya, a musical theater writer and musical director.
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