Norris to Me

Author Biography

• Avram Ludwig

  Avram Ludwig is a filmmaker who is equally skilled on both the creative side and production side of the industry. Summer jobs working for directors Mike Nichols on the play Hurlyburly and Alan Alda on the film Sweet Liberty began Ludwig's production career. He worked as a production assistant then as an assistant director on more than a dozen features for studios such as Columbia, Warner Brothers, Universal, Disney, and 20th Century Fox, as well as more than seventy television commercials for clients as varied as American Airlines, Ford Motor Corporation, and the Cabbage Patch Kids. Ludwig also served as the Assistant Director of the Bravo Network’s “Inside the Actors Studio,” responsible for handling such guests as Al Pacino, Alec Baldwin, Dennis Hopper, Robert Redford, Sally Field, Paul Newman, and Arthur Miller. Ludwig directed John Buffalo Mailer’s play It’ll Pass, It Always Does and Dennis Russo’s Saving the Theatre, both at the Actors Studio. He is currently directing a retrospective of all of the films of Elia Kazan for the Actors Studio and Tribeca Film Festival.