Pola Rappaport

Teaches at Actors Connection New York

Pola Rapaport is an independent, award-winning filmmaker and editor living in New York. Her work includes Subway: The Musical (work-in-progress feature documentary), Hair: Let The Sunshine In, a celebration of the musical Hair (2007), Writer of O, a docudrama about the secretive author of the erotic novel Story of O (Grand Prix Urti/ 2005), Family Secret, the story of the discovery of her long-lost secret Romanian brother (Grand Prix Scam, France/ 2000), Blind Light (poetic drama/documentary, 1998) and Broken Meat (1990), portrait of the mad poet Alan Granville. She has been a Guggenheim Fellow and a fellow of the NY Foundation for the Arts. As the creator and facilitator of this workshop, she has held the course at the Gestalt Associates and other locations in NYC, including the Hamptons.