Beth Tanenhaus Winsten

Beth Tanenhaus Winsten is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, visual artist, and creator of the digital genre tinyBigPictureshows with channels on Youtube and Vimeo. Her work has been broadcast on the National Geographic Explorer Series, TBS, PBS, ABC affiliates among others. The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. and The Detroit Institute of Arts have showcased her work. After attending the Sibford School in Sibford Ferris, England and being the first American accepted as a member of The Royal Shakespeare Company National Youth Theatre in London, England. She received an M.A. in 1995 in film from the University of Michigan where she has taught screen writing and history of film. As a graduate student, Tanenhaus Winsten won the 1995 Major Drama Hopwood Award for her screenplay 'The Black Corset Affair' and a 1995 public affairs EMMY Award for her thesis film 'Body & Soul.' Tanenhaus Winsten's script 'Rock Garden' won the 1999 National Festival of New Works Competition which lead to a rewrite under the supervision of Academy-award winning screenwriter Kurt Leudtke (Out of Africa). Filmmaker/screenwriter Dan T. Green directed an Actors' Equity Association production of a staged reading of "Rock Garden" at the Trueblood Theater in 1999. Filmmaking awards: include 3 CINE Golden Eagles; 4 regional EMMY Awards; Blue Ribbon, 1st Place at American Film and Video Festival; 3 Golden Itvas (International Television Awards of Excellence) as well as several Tellys. Screenwriting awards include: the Major Drama Avery Hopwood Award. The 1999 National Festival of New Works selected "Rock Garden", for its showcase series that playwrights Arthur Miller (Death of a Salesman, The Crucible) and Michael Weller (Moonchildren, Loose Ends) judged, participated in, and attended.