Brenda Feigen was among the feminist elite of the 1970s. Her
work in the Women's Movement included serving as legislative vice president of
NOW (with responsibility for work on the ERA and abortion rights), and directing
with Ruth Bader Ginsburg the Women's Rights Project of the ACLU. Ms. Brenda
Feigen was a co-founder of the National Women's Political Caucus, founder of the
Women's Action Alliance, and co-founder of Ms. magazine with Gloria Steinem. A
breast cancer survivor and lawyer, Ms. Brenda Feigen is president of the newly
formed non-profit organization: National Breast Cancer Education and Legal
Center .
Ms. Brenda Feigen is also currently an entertainment and
literary lawyer, who also has experience running production and literary
management companies. She is a literary manager for non-fiction and fiction
authors, screenwriters and actors and often undertakes producing movies based on
the material she represents. While maintaining her New York-based law practice,
Ms. Brenda Feigen is a partner of and general counsel to Feigen/Parrent Literary
Management in California , and she is also co-president of and general counsel
to Reel Life Women Production Company, which strives to make movies for and
about women. For several months, starting in January 2000, she served as a
manager of "Entertainment Goes Global," a joint project of the Annenberg School
for Communication's Norman Lear Center and the Pacific Council on International
Policy. Ms. Brenda Feigen produced NAVY SEALS, an Orion Pictures release; she
has also been attached to produce various other projects. She worked with Jane
Fonda and Jane Wagner on a feature for MGM; worked on a CBS Movie of the Week
and other Movies of the Week for Showtime, Warner Bros. and ABC Productions;
partnered first with Jane Alexander and later with Meredith Baxter to develop
movies about women. At present, she is concentrating on a four-hour mini-series
that she will produce with Meryl Streep, who will also star in it.
Ms. Brenda Feigen is the author of Not One of the Boys:
Living Life As a Feminist (Alfred A. Knopf, 2000) and has been a contributor
to the Harvard Law Bulletin, Harvard Women's Law Journal, Ms. magazine, Vogue
magazine, and The Village Voice. She has also written "Developing and Packaging
a Feature Film" for the Practicing Law Institute's volumes: Counseling Clients
in the Entertainment Industry.
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