  Her book, American Catfight: Political Wisdom for Women & Other Thoughts Towards Feminine Statecraft for the 21st Century is due for publication in 2010. American Catfight continues the discussion of women's true will to political power by provoking with humor habitual stances and conditioned thinking. As with Running in High Heels, it prods the audience to change their thinking and push useless paradigms aside by turning widely-held presumptions upside down. Maryann began her career at the Bottom Line nightclub in New York City where she learned about the music business for four years while she was earning her degree in Film and Television from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. She then served a tenure at the William Morris Agency. After realizing she didn’t want to be in the “flesh trade,” she left the agency and went on to produce for various video divisions at Atlantic Records, Time Warner and BMG Entertainment. More recently, Maryann was an executive producer of over 500 arthouse DVDs including Akira Kurosawa's Ran, Costa Gavra’s Z, Russian Ark, Godard’s Breathless and John Woo’s the Killer as well as hundreds of American independent films. Her work included interviews with filmmakers such as Wim Wenders, John Woo, Edward Yang, and Catherine Breillat just to name a few. These interviews and the filmmakers themselves inspired her to produce and write on her own. She was born in the harbor town of Port Jefferson, NY. Her fifth great-grandfather was Louis-Francois, the Count of Achun, for whom the French Revolution did not work out so well. Upon arriving in America afterwards, the newly untitled Breschards became half of the Breschard & Pepin Circus which is widely believed to be the first circus in the United States. In 1806, the Breschard family founded the oldest theatre in America, the Walnut Street Theatre, which still operates today. During the venue's early era, the now-famous Barrymores were stagehands in the employ of the Breschards...but as with the Revolution, things for the family went awry... Maryann, untitled and happy to have her head, currently resides in New York City. |
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