Judith Rawie Rook

Background

Rook, Judith Rawie Daughter of Wilmer Ernest and Margaret Jane (Towle) Rawie.

Education

Bachelor, Loyola-Marymount University, 1964. Postgrad., University California, San Diego, 1978.

Career

Syndicated columnist Environmental Forum, 1971-1974. Director video IABC, San Francisco, 1982. Director programming Westinghouse Cable, 1983-1985.

Director development Embassy/Nelson Home Entertainment, 1985-1987. Partner Real Magic, 1987-1989. Producer, writer, partner BrantHol Productions, 1990-1993.

Co-sponsorship Beetle Juice, The Last Emperor, 1987—1989. Founder, president R2 Group, since 1990.

Works

• Other Work

  • Associate director: (off-broadway play) Arms and the Man, 1967. The Man Who Came to Dinner, 1981. Executive producer: Neighborhood Without Bars (Emmy award, 1986).
    
    Producer, writer: Public Broadcasting Service series Focus, 1980. Achieving, 1982 (Emmy award, American Council on Exercise nominee, Public Broadcasting Service nominee). NBC pilot Christmas Comes to Silverton, 1990-1993.
    
    Cable News Network pilot Clever Encounters, 1991. Producer: One Creative Moment, 1992, Close up: The 60s, 1995-1997, (documentary) Ed MieczKowski, since 2010. Associate producer: Fox Latin American Billboard Music Awards, 1998—2000.
    
    (television pilot) Fempresario. Associate producer (documentary) Boots Across The Divide: A Love Story, since 2005. Producer: (films) Somewhere in Between, 2005.
    
    Playwright: Theatre 40 Writer's Workshop Anniversary for Three, 2003. Associate producer: (films) Highway 101, since 2005.

Membership

Member advisory board University California Irvine Screenwriting/Film Production, 1996-2000. Member advisory board University Art Museum, 1996-1997, co-president contemporary council, 1996-1997. Member executive board Long Beach Museum Art, 1995-1996.

Board directors Counseling 4 Kids, 1998-2005, board secretary, 2001-2005. Editor, board League of Women Voters, Santa Monica, 2004-2005, Getty Museum, since 2005. Member American Film Institute, Women in Film (director seminars on women in film), French Institute of Petroleum West.

Connections

Married Doctor John Holland, 1964 (div. 1978); children: Daryn Simons, Dawn Reinard. Married Tim Rook, 1993.

Father:

Wilmer Ernest Rawie

Mother:

Margaret Jane (Towle) Rawie

Spouse:

Doctor John Holland

Spouse:

Tim Rook

child:

Daryn Simons Rook

child:

Dawn Reinard Rook