Jan Albert

Jan Albert is an Emmy Award-winning radio and television producer who’s made documentaries for CBS, ABC, NBC, PBS, A&E, Lifetime, TVLAND, and the Discovery Channel, among other outlets. She has covered such wide-ranging subjects as the wars in Central America and Iraq, teenagers and the AIDS virus, the history of the automobile in America, and created film and radio portraits of Gloria Steinem, Martin Luther King, Lillian Hellman, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Raphael Soyer, Barbara Jordan, and many other artists, filmmakers, politicians and public figures. She’s also written for newspapers and magazines, including The Village Voice, Working Woman, The NY Daily News, Arthur Frommer’s Budget Travel and The Columbia Journalism Review, and produced audio tours and multimedia presentations for The Library of Congress, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and many other institutions around the U.S. and in India. Jan is currently writing a book covering her interviews with hundreds of directors, actors, screenwriters, and other filmmakers and is curator of art@tekserve, a series of exhibitions at Tekserve, New York’s largest independent Apple computer sales and service provider.