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Mary Skinner
San Francisco Bay Area
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Title/Occupation:  Consultant  Director  Educator  Grant Writer  Producer  Supporter of the Arts  Writer 
Gender: Female
Race: None
Citizenship: US
Languages Spoken: English, some French and Polish

Biography: 

Mary Skinner devoted much of the past seven years producing and directing "IRENA SENDLER In the Name of Their Mothers", a 60 minute doc about Irena Sendler and a group of young Polish women who outfoxed the Nazis for five years during WWII to save the lives of thousands of Jewish children from the Warsaw ghetto. The daughter of a WWII Warsaw war orphan, she has a very personal appreciation for the story of Irena Sendler.
After graduating from UC Berkeley’s renowned theater program in the 1970s she went to New York to found The Riverside Shakespeare Company with fellow graduates W. Stuart McDowell and Gloria Skurski. Over its two decades, Riverside produced works by Shakespeare, Marlowe, and Brecht and served as a training and performance venue for such actors and directors as Tom Hanks, Raul Julia, Helen Hayes, Victor Argo, Austin Pendleton and Robert Sean Leonard. During the 1980s Mary Skinner worked as a corporate marketing executive in New York and San Francisco producing ad campaigns, TV commercials, corporate videos, and web sites. She held VP-Marketing positions at PaineWebber and JP Morgan in New York, and at Wells Fargo, Charles Schwab and Intuit in San Francisco. In 2001 she began working and studying in all areas of documentary filmmaking in New York. She established her production company “2B Productions” in 2003 and produced and directed the short film KIRKUT. She continues to work as a director, producer, writer and independent marketing consultant to a wide range of clients, including independent filmmakers.