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Jan Oxenberg
The basics
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Female
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Birth:
1945
The details
Biography
Introduction
Jan Oxenberg (born 1950) is an American film producer, film director, film editor and scenarist. She is known for her work in lesbian feminist films.
Life and Career
Oxenberg was born in 1950 in Brooklyn, New York in 1950.
Oxenberg wrote for Relativity, which featured the first kiss between two lesbian/bisexual characters on American television in 1997, and Once and Again, which also had a pioneering queer storyline. She has also worked as a producer and writer of Pretty Little Liars. Other credits include Cold Case, Kidnapped, In Plain Sight and Chicago Hope.
Personal life
Oxenberg is Jewish, and openly lesbian. Oxenberg has been out as a lesbian since the early portion of the second wave feminist movement. For many years she dated musician Sonia Wieder-Atherton.
Filmography
| Year | Title | Type | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | Home Movie | short film | film director | This film is regarded as one of the first feminist lesbian films and was shown at the Womanspace Gallery in 1973. It revisits old home movies but with a queer narrative. |
| 1974 | I'm Not One of 'Em | short film | film director | |
| 1975 | A Comedy in Six Unnatural Acts | film producer, film director, film editor | ||
| 1975 | Films by Jan Oxenberg | short film | film director, film editor | |
| 1975 | Woman to Woman | documentary | sound | |
| 1986 | Rate It X | documentary | sound | |
| 1992 | Thank You and Good Night | documentary | film producer, film director | This documentary film is centered around a portrait of Oxenberg's dying grandmother, and about facing death. |
| Year(s) | Title | Type | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | Relativity | television series drama | writer | Oxenberg wrote the 1997 Relativity episode that featured the first kiss between two lesbian characters on American primetime television. |
| 1998–1999 | Chicago Hope | television series drama | film producer | (3 episodes) |
| 1999–2001 | Once and Again | television series drama | film producer, writer | (43 episodes) She wrote for Once and Again, which had a pioneering storyline of a lesbian teenage couple. |
| 2001 | The Education of Max Bickford | film producer | ||
| 2002 | Robbery Homicide Division | film producer | ||
| 2003 | Mister Sterling | film producer | (3 episodes) | |
| 2003–2004 | Cold Case | television series police procedural | film producer | (22 episodes) |
| 2006–2007 | Kidnapped | film producer | (12 episodes) | |
| 2008 | Long Island Confidential | film producer | ||
| 2011 | In Plain Sight | film producer | (2 episodes) | |
| 2013 | Pretty Little Liars | film producer | (3 episodes) |