Background
Kagan, Jeremy Paul was born on December 14, 1945 in Mount Vernon, New York, United States. Son of Henry Enoch and Esther (Miller) Kagan.
Kagan, Jeremy Paul was born on December 14, 1945 in Mount Vernon, New York, United States. Son of Henry Enoch and Esther (Miller) Kagan.
Bachelor magna cum laude, Harvard University, 1967. Master of Fine Arts, New York University, 1969. Student, American Film Institute, 1971.
Born in Mount Vernon, New York, Kagan received his Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University in 1967 and went on to attend the newly formed New York University Graduate Institute of Film & Television was in the first class at the American Film Institute. He has also been a prolific television director, starting already in 1972 at the age of 26, directing The Most Crucial Game (starring Peter Falk, Robert Culp, Valerie Harper, Val Avery, Susan Howard, Dean Stockwell among others), an episode in the second Columbo season. Kagan also directed a movie episode of Steven Spielberg"s Emmy winning Taken.
He has worked on several other series shows including The West Wing, The Guardian, Resurrection Boulevard, Picket Fences, Boomtown and more.
Kagan is a full tenured professor at the University of Southern California where he teaches the graduate courses in directing and has recently created the Center for Change Making Media which is to become a hub for research and training in advocacy cinematic techniques. In 2004 he was honored with the Robert Aldrich Award for "extraordinary service to the guild."
Kagan is also the author of the book Directors Close Up (Scarecrow, 2006).
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He has served as Artistic Director at the Robert Redford"s Sundance Institute and is on a National Board Member of the Directors Guild of America and chairperson of its Special Projects Committee which provides cultural and educational programs for the 14,000 members.
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