Dinah Manoff was accepted to the Actors Studio in New York at the age of seventeen, and won the 1980 Tony Award for her performance in Neil Simon’s I Ought To Be In Pictures. Her numerous theater credits include Broadway’s Leader of the Pack, Alfred and Victoria at the Los Angeles Theatre Center and Kingdom of Earth at Theatre West. She won a Los Angeles Dramalogue Award (Best Director of the Year, 1993) for directing Telegram From Heaven. On television, she was a series regular onSoap, Empty Nest and State of Grace. Manoff’s feature film credits include Bloodhounds of Broadway, Child’s Play, Staying Together,Backfire, Ordinary People, Grease, I Ought to be in Pictures, Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael, The Amati Girls, and the soon to be released Bart’s got a Room. As a television director Manoff worked on episodes of Empty Nest as well as Brother’s Keeper, Movie Stars, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, and Sister Sister.