Magdalene Brandeis

Associate Professor of Practice, Film; Associate Chair

Magdalene Brandeis is a producer, novelist, and the Executive Director of the MFA Programs in Film and Television Writing at Stony Brook University. She initiated the Stony Brook Manhattan Center in Creative Writing & Literature in 2010 and launched the well-attended reading series "Ink on Shrinks" with former fiction editor of The New Yorker and Executive Editor-in-Chief of Random House, author Daniel Menaker. She also developed Stony Brook's 20/20/20 with seed monies from Dorothy Lichtenstein, the MFA in FLM with Christine Vachon of Killer Films, and the MFA in Television Writing with Alan Kingsberg.  Getting her start in development at Hollywood Pictures and Caravan Pictures, Brandeis also translated and adapted French films and produced television series and pilots for ABC, AMC, Bravo, and MTV. She also served as the Executive Director of The Bridge Program, a nonprofit providing free college-level education to underserved adults, and as a juror for The March on Washington Film Festival during the Obama Administration. She holds a BA from Antioch University Los Angeles, and an MFA in Writing and Literature from Stony Brook. Her short stories have been published in The East Hampton Star, The Southampton Review, and Lit Angels.