Jan Albert is an Emmy Award-winning radio and television producer who’s made documentaries for CBS, ABC, NBC, PBS, A&E, Lifetime, TVLAND, and the Discovery Channel, among other outlets. She has covered such wide-ranging subjects as the wars in Central America and Iraq, teenagers and the AIDS virus, the history of the automobile in America, and created film and radio portraits of Gloria Steinem, Martin Luther King, Lillian Hellman, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Raphael Soyer, Barbara Jordan, and many other artists, filmmakers, politicians and public figures. She’s also written for newspapers and magazines, including The Village Voice, Working Woman, The NY Daily News, and The Columbia Journalism Review, and produced audio tours and multimedia presentations for The Library of Congress, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and many other institutions around the world. She is currently adapting her long-running public radio program, Behind the Screens, into a book that will feature favorite moments from the hundreds of interviews she’s done with directors, writers, actors, cinematographers, and other filmmakers.