Sidney Brammer
916-0001
sbramme2@austincc.edu

Sidney Brammer, A native Austinite, was exposed early on to the creative and political circles of Central Texas.  Her father, Billie Lee Brammer, was a writer/journalist and her mother, Nadine Brammer Eckhardt, was an artist and muse to many.  Sidney’s early exposure to cultural activities resulted in her becoming a Fine Arts major at U.T., and eventually a performing artist in theatre, dance, film, and television. In the 1980s, she helped found the regional theatre company, Big State Productions, whose signature production, IN THE WEST, toured the state for a decade and played Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., representing the best of Texas theatre. In New York City and Los Angeles she worked as a production coordinator, supervisor, and manager on many Hollywood and independent feature films and commercials. She has also been a freelance arts critic, feature writer, and editor for various publications, including The New York Amsterdam News, The Texas Observer, The Austin Chronicle, and the Austin American-Statesman. Today, she is an award-winning independent film director and screenwriter, playwright and theatre director, and teaches screenwriting at Austin Community College and directing at Alleywood Studios.

Her most recent projects include directing TALES OF THE BORDERLAND, a short production; LONESOME (starring Marisa Berenson, Aleksa Palladino, John Pyper Ferguson and Richard Delate), directing from a screenplay she wrote for award-winning German film director, Elke Rosthal; co-directing A RIDE WITH BOB: From Austin to Tulsa; and BORDER RADIO: THE BIG JUKEBOX IN THE SKY which she directed in September.