biography
PHILIP GORDON
Philip R. Gordon is an award-winning teacher and tutor for over forty years, as well as a writer, producer, and photographer. Mr. Gordon received his education at Wesleyan University with a year at the Sorbonne in Paris, France, and graduated Magna Cum Laude in 1970. He received his graduate degree in History from Princeton University in 1973.
As a Teacher:
Mr. Gordon has a unique combination of skills unequalled by the vast majority of other teachers and tutors:
Mr. Gordon was a high school English and History teacher in the Stamford, Connecticut School System from 1973-1979. He went on to be a popular tutor in New York City from 1979-1994. He has been a tutor in Los Angeles, California from 1994 until the present. He tutors in all aspects of college preparation English and History as well as all AP and SAT Tests in those fields. His more than two hundred students now attend Stanford, Princeton, Berkley and most of the other top Universities in the United States.
As a Writer:
As a writer, Mr. Gordon has been nominated for the Weissberger prize at the Williamstown Theatre festival for his play “Jewels Cesar” (an updating of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar as a 1920’s Chicago mafia story). He is the screenwriter of “Spark of Goodness” (for Jay S. Harris Productions, Jay Harris Producer), “Khyber Horse” (for Khyber Horse Productions, Mahmud Sipra producer), and “Night Passage” (Erimark productions, Marvin Segelman producer). He is the author of “Artists of the American West” for Shorewood Publications (sold at the Metropolitan Museum of Art), and ghost wrote the memoir “A Constant Reminder” for Isaac Charchat (who served as the model for Ari Ben Canaan in “Exodus”).
As a Producer:
As a producer, Mr. Gordon produced three award-winning short films, “The Empty Building” (Winner 14 festival awards, 1994), “Dead Letters Don’t Die” (Mobile Award, 1994) and “The Visit” (NYU Film Festival Award, 1995) . In 1998, he produced the Innovation Award-winning West Coast premiere of the play “Unexpected Tenderness” by Israel Horowitz at the Marilyn Monroe Theatre at the Lee Strasberg Institute in Los Angeles. From 1980-1982, he was Production Planner and Associate Producer for “Bless’em All” (CineUS Productions, released as “The Act”, Sig Shore producer), and was Script Editor and Production Consultant for “Sudden Death”, and “The Survivalist” (Lodestar Productions, Sig Shore producer). Most recently, he was Co-Producer of “The Empty Building” (Empty Building Productions, Giovanni Sansevierro producer.) Mr. Gordon was the Executive Director of the Crow’s Nest Theatre in New York City in the late 1970’s.
Additional Citations:
Mr. Gordon was also an historical advisor for the Pearl Harbor 50th Anniversary Documentary produced for “The American Experience” on PBS by Tom Johnson and Lance Bird. He has recently been the Director of the Stockmine, a division of The Mine, LLC, a music video production company in Los Angeles.
As a computer expert and graphics designer, he has advised such companies as Imagine Entertainment, Goldman Sachs, and the City of Los Angeles.
In 1966, Mr. Gordon was the recipient of a Lincoln Center Music Award for Piano Performance and Composition.
Mr. Gordon has been an official photographer for the Grauman’s Chinese Theatre Celebrity Handprint Ceremonies, as well as an award-winning art- and photo-journalist who captured unique views of Afghan Rebels during the Russian-Afghan War of the 1980s. His most recent photographic exhibits were held at the City Gallery and at the Catalyst Art Show in Los Angeles.
