Seth Michael Donsky
Biography Seth Michael Donsky’s debut feature film, Twisted, premiered at the 47th Annual Berlin International Film Festival. It was screened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Film Theatre of Great Britain, the National Gallery of Canada and distributed theatrically in the U.S. and throughout Europe. His short film Loopy screened at festivals around the world and was broadcast in the U.S. on the Independent Film Channel. He holds an M.F.A. in film from Columbia University and is a two-time national finalist of the Coca-Cola Refreshing Filmmaker Contest.
As a journalist Seth contributes to The Daily Beast, The New York Press, Los Angeles Confidential , Gotham Magazine, Womansday.com and PointClickHome , the online version of ELLE Décor, Metropolitan Home and Home Magazines. His writing has been selected for publication in Cleis Press' upcoming Best Sex Writing of 2010. As an actor he most recently appeared in Fire Island Repertory Theatre’s 2008 revival of Sordid Lives and onstage with the Calgary Men’s Chorus performing the narration for their production of A Christmas Carol, which, additionally, he adapted for presentation as a choral performance.  |
Selected WorksNew York Press, June 2009
What's Love Got To Do With It
Marriage may have its benefits, but SETH MICHAEL DONSKY wonders whether the struggle for same-sex marriage is really about equal rights—or just validation. Daily Beast, June 2009
Nightmarish Scenes from New York's Subways
Profile of John Conn, photographer who documented the New York Subway system in the 1980's. New York Press, April 2009
The Trouble With Safe Sex
SETH MICHAEL DONSKY visits NYC’s last remaining bathhouses to investigate whether safe sex is still an effective message against HIV. Gotham Magazine, April 2009
Alex Calderwood, Ace Hotels
Profile of entrepreneur and hotelier Alex Calderwood. Point Click Home, February 2009
Hollywood's Classic Interiors
The most decadent and influential set design in the great films from the 1930s-1970s Adaptation & Performance, December 2008
Gotham Magazine, Sept. 2008
Barbara Tober Profile
Profile of New York MAD Museum Chairman Barbara Tober. Point Click Home, August 2008
Sensual Feng Shui
A room by room guide to a home that pleases all your senses. Fiction Screenplay, 2003
Loopy
“Shades of Highsmith are everywhere in this cheerfully nasty fairy-tale study in domestic Claustrophobia and latent psychosis.” –Cinematexas Fiction Screenplay, 1997
Twisted
“A stylized, operatic fable as inspired by Dickens as by the silent cinema.” –The Los Angeles Times |
