Peggy Bruen

Peggy Bruen was born in the Empire State in a robust family of nine siblings. Her father David D. Bruen was a successful, game-changing Democrat public official in the Republican County of Putnam. Her mother Marilyn King contracted polio in 1956 and had 6 children afterward. Peggy moved to Hollywood with her partner Sean Delgado, graduate of SVA, to make films. Peggy is an award-winning writer/producer of multimedia shorts and feature films. Bruen has a strong background in marketing and fund-raising for such notable art organizations as The Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles (Director of Annual Fund, raising over $1 million a year) and The Pantages and Geffen Theaters in Hollywood. Bruen received international acclaim for her award-winning, avant-garde short film, Diversions, at Berlinale, Slamdance and 25 festivals worldwide. Along with her partner Sean, she produced, co-directed and scripted feature film An Existential Affair with Oscar-winner Martin Landau, distributed through Maverick Entertainment and Warner Pictures. Bruen joined the L.A. International Shorts Festival and Slamdance Festival in Utah as head programmer, creating loglines and synopsis for hundreds of scripts. She produced and scripted Alexa, a 35mm feature film, distributed by Showtime. Bruen operates Hydra Films, Inc. and Bruen History Films, LLC, both production companies in development with several adaptations and genre-driven film packages. Before cinema, Peggy collaborated Off-Broadway in NY with legends Leonard Melfi, Sam Shepard and Patti Smith, producing their original stage plays: Raggedy Ann Says Hello and Cowboy Mouth. Bruen has traveled extensively through North America, South America, Europe, Africa and Iceland. Affiliations: WGAw