Known for Directing
Dori Berinstein is a six-time, Tony-winning Broadway producer, an Olivier winner and an Emmy-award-winning director, producer and writer of film & TV. As a documentary filmmaker, Dori's award-winning work includes: "A Man with Sole: The Impact of Kenneth Cole", "ShowBusiness: The Road To Broadway", "Carol Channing: Larger Than Life", "Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love" (Emmy Award), "The Show Must Go On" and "The Last Blintz". Dori's Broadway Productions include: "Stereophonic"(Tony Award), "Company" (Tony Award), "Is This A Room", "Dana H", "The Prom" (Drama Desk Award), "Legally Blonde" (Olivier Award), "Virginia Woolf" (Tony Award), "Thoroughly Modern Millie" (Tony Award), "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" (Tony Award), "Flower Drum Song", "The Crucible", "Golden Child", "Big" and "Fool Moon" (Tony Award). For Television, Dori directed and produced "Joshua Bell: Music at Home", and directed, produced and created the TV Series "Eavesdropping with Alan Cumming" and all four seasons of "The Isaac Mizrahi Show". Dori executive produced and/or supervised over 50 feature, special f/x and/or animated productions, including Isaac Mizrahi's award-winning documentary "Unzipped", "Dirty Dancing" (both the feature film & TV series) and Jim Henson's "MuppetVision 3-D". She also produced Ryan Murphy's adaptation of her Broadway Musical The Prom for Netflix (Golden Globe Nominee). Dori has executive produced websites for Oprah and President Clinton. She spearheaded creative development and production for DreamWorks Theatricals and has worked as a Producer and/or an Executive for Paramount Pictures, Warner Brothers, Sony Pictures, NBC, MTV, Nickelodeon, Sesame Workshop, Oxygen Media, Vestron Pictures, and Walt Disney Imagineering. Dori is the recipient of Broadway's Robert Whitehead Award for Outstanding Achievement in Commercial Theatre Producing and the Jacob Burns Vision Award. She is Co-Founder and CEO of The Broadway Podcast Network, the preeminent home for Broadway-related digital storytelling. (bpn.fm/). Dori serves on the Broadway League's Board of Governors, as well as the New Dramatists and Jacob Burns Board of Directors. Dori began her professional career as an Investment Banker in Mergers & Acquisitions for Morgan Stanley.
Birthplace
Los Angeles, California, USA
Filmography
21 films, 1 show


Couture to the Max
2026 · 35m · US
At just 9-years-old, fashion prodigy Max Alexander fearlessly fuses his boundless imagination with an unwavering commitment to sustainability, inspiring us to dream boldly and act responsibly.


Kenny Loggins: Conviction of the Heart
2026 · 1h 36m · US
Everybody cut footloose! From chart-topping anthems to movie soundtracks, multi-award-winning singer songwriter Kenny Loggins reflects on a career that defined a generation, tracing his life on and off stage across decades of reinvention.


A Man with Sole: The Impact of Kenneth Cole
2025 · 1h 38m · US
With heart & ‘sole’ and unflinching determination, global fashion icon/social activist Kenneth Cole has put ’cause’ before ‘commerce’ for 40 years. Kenneth’s commitment to HIV AIDS, homelessness, LGBTQIA+ rights, social justice and mental health, has shattered stigmas, ignited social awareness, given voice to the voiceless, built coalitions and inspired action for good.


The Show Must Go On
2021 · 1h 36m · US
The Show Must Go On, a new documentary about efforts to bring the world tour of The Phantom of the Opera and the South Korean tour of Cats to their respective opening nights in the wake of COVID-19, is now in post-production. Shot in South Korea, the United States and the United Kingdom, the film features Andrew Lloyd Webber as well as the touring companies. The doc is directed by Emmy winner and Broadway producer Dori Berinstein and her daughter Sammi Cannold, who helmed Lloyd Webber's Evita at City Center in 2019.


Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love
2013 · 1h 22m · US
When Marvin Hamlisch passed away in August 2012 the worlds of music, theatre and cinema lost a talent the likes of which we may never see again. Seemingly destined for greatness, Hamlisch was accepted into New York’s Juilliard School as a 6-year-old musical prodigy and rapidly developed into a phenomenon. With instantly classic hits ‘The Way We Were’ and ‘Nobody Does It Better’ and scores for Hollywood films such as The Swimmer, The Sting and Sophie’s Choice and the Broadway juggernaut A Chorus Line; Hamlisch became the go-to composer for film and Broadway producers and a prominent presence on the international Concert Hall circuit. His streak was staggering, vast, unprecedented and glorious, by the age of 31 Hamlisch had won 4 Grammys, an Emmy, 3 Oscars, a Tony and a Pulitzer prize: success that burned so bright, it proved impossible to match.


Carol Channing: Larger Than Life
2012 · 1h 27m · US
If Carol Channing didn't exist, no one could have made her up. One in a billion, Carol , at 89, remains an unstoppable, megawatt dynamo. Broadway diva extraordinaire is just the icing. Carol Channing hovered at the pinnacle of the entertainment world from the late-1950's through the 1960's and beyond, living life sensationally large. As Carol has observed, '...if you're lucky enough to have two hit shows, the world passes through your dressing room'. At 89, she remains irrepressible.


Gotta Dance
2008 · 1h 33m
Chronicles the first-ever, senior citizen hip-hop dance team for the New Jersey Nets Basketball team, 12 women and man - all dance team newbies, from auditions through to center court stardom.


ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
2007 · 1h 42m · US
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway is an American documentary film, directed by Dori Berinstein, a Broadway Producer, Writer and Filmmaker. Berinstein filmed each principal musical on Broadway for her project during the 2003-2004 season, for about 600 hours of initial film footage. She focused the film on four musicals, through the difficulties of pre-production, their openings, attendant publicity around the shows, and their reviews, through the 2004 Tony Award competition. The four musicals documented for the film were: Wicked, Taboo, Caroline or Change, Avenue Q.