Seth Michael Donsky

SETH MICHAEL DONSKY

December 2011

Seth Michael Donsky becomes contributing writer for www.thefix.com

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Seth Michael Donsky’s debut feature film, Twisted, starring Oscar nominated William Hickey and Tony Award winning Anthony Crivello and Elizabeth Franz, was an official selection of the 47th Annual Berlin International Film Festival (Panorama). MoMA New York screened Twisted and granted Seth an honorarium for his work. He holds an MFA in Film from Columbia University where he twice received the Dean’s Fellowship. His award-winning thesis film, Loopy, adapted from a short story by best-selling crime author Ruth Rendell and also starring Ms. Franz, screened at film festivals worldwide and aired on the IFC.

Seth is also an award-winning journalist whose work has been featured in the UTNE Reader, on the cover of The New York Press, and in Cleis Press’ Best Sex Writing 2010. His work was most recently honored in the New York Press Association’s 2010 Better Newspaper Contest for Excellence in Journalism.

Selected Works

Cover Story, New York Press, June 2011
Domestic Bliss
From gender role squabbles to non-monogamy: What straight couples can learn from same-sex couples —to be happier in their own marriages.
Cover Story, New York Press, October 2010
Free at La$t
Imagine a life in which you didn’t owe money to anyone. SETH MICHAEL DONSKY discovers that is the ultimate, achievable goal with Debtors Anonymous
Cover Story, New York Press, June 2009
What's Love Got To Do With It
Marriage may have its benefits, but SETH MICHAEL DONSKY wonders whether the struggle for same-sex marriage is really about equal rights—or just validation.
Short Film, 2004
Loopy
“Shades of Highsmith are everywhere in this cheerfully nasty fairy-tale study in domestic Claustrophobia and latent psychosis.”
–Cinematexas
Cover Story, New York Press, April 2009
The Trouble With Safe Sex
SETH MICHAEL DONSKY visits NYC’s last remaining bathhouses to investigate whether safe sex is still an effective message against HIV.
Point Click Home, February 2009
Hollywood's Classic Interiors
The most decadent and influential set design in the great films from the 1930s-1970s
Adaptation & Performance, December 2008
A Christmas Carol
“Gay production of A Christmas Carol bucks holiday traditon”
–xtra.com
Gotham Magazine, Sept. 2008
Barbara Tober Profile
Profile of New York MAD Museum Chairman Barbara Tober.
Point Click Home, August 2008
Sensual Feng Shui
A room by room guide to a home that pleases all your senses.
Feature Film, 1997
Twisted
“A stylized, operatic fable as inspired by Dickens as by the silent cinema masters.”
–The Los Angeles Times
“A GREAT Oliver Twist update… transporting Twist to the contemporary dark. Twisted’s plot carries a humane vision that, true to Dickens, inspires rage!"