THEATRE

Ben Feldman, Esq.
Of Counsel

          Ben Feldman is affiliated with the firm, and focuses his practice in matters concerning theatre and independent film. Adept at negotiating and structuring a variety of agreements, Mr. Feldman also provides counsel in the areas of art, book publishing, music, sports and television. His varied clientele consists of film and theater producers, cable television show hosts, actors, publicists, distributors, Obie Award-winning theater directors and Tony and Emmy Award winning writers and composers. He has artfully secured the film rights for stories appearing in publications ranging from The New York Times to Vanity Fair and the live musical stage rights to numerous novels and popular films. In his film practice, he represented more documentaries at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival than any other attorney, and as a producer rep he sold one, in an unprecedented deal, to a national broadcast network for prime time exhibition (he subsequently sold two additional films at the Tribeca Festival later that same year, in the Spring of ’04). Mr. Feldman’s work as a theatrical attorney was acknowledged on the Tony Awards program (2002), making him one of only a handful of attorneys who have received such an honor. His clients have also been recognized at the Tony’s, having been nominated in such categories as best Play Revival (producer) and Best Actress in a Play, both in 2004.

       In addition to his legal practice, Mr. Feldman also serves as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Naked Angles Theater Company, and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Hourglass Group and of the New Festival Inc., sponsor of the New York Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. As a producer himself, Mr. Feldman has presented The Cutting Room, a short film featuring Kate Hudson, and the commercial run of The Stand In, a play developed by Naked Angels and later optioned by Miramax..

         Mr. Feldman became affiliated with Epstein, Levinsohn, Bodine, Hurwitz and Weinstein, LLP, in 2002. Formerly, he was affiliated with the law firms of Parker, Chapin, Flattau and Klimpl, LLP, and Kaufmann, Feiner, Yamin, Gildin and Robbins, LLP. Mr. Feldman was admitted to the New York Bar in 1999. He received his J.D. from New York University School of Law, where he won the ASCAP Copyright Law Prize and the school’s Moot Court Oral Argument Competition. He is a Summa Cum Laude graduate of Yale College.