Marcielle Brandler: Universal Image Productions

Marcielle Brandler appears in 2003-04 Who's Who of American Women. She obtained her Master’s Degree in Professional Writing and Poetry in 1994. Her poems have been translated into Czech, French, Arabic, and Spanish, and published internationally. While in Buenos Aires, she finished her book of poems, The Breathing House and read her work there. Her poem, “Eden," won First Place in Mt. San Antonio College’s 1997 Writers?Day Festival. Her poem, “The Civilian, The Siege,?was praised by the LA Weekly’s Evelyn McDonnell, as one of the best in the CD anthology called Disclosure.

She has been Entertainment Writer for Sierra Madre Vista and the Creative Line Magazine. She was a featured poet at Universita Karlova and Radost in Prague, Czech Republic. She has shared the stage with Dwight Yoakum, David Lee Roth, James Ragan, Wanda Coleman, and many others. In 1994 and 1995, she helped organize and host International PEN’s Celebration of Banned Books. Many film and literary celebrities read from their favorite banned books in a two-day event on Santa Monica’s Promenade.

Marcielle was associate Producer on the film The Last Weekend with the American Film Institute, which aired on Lifetime Television. She was a judge in the Poetry Competition in 2001 at Los Angeles City College. She teaches college English. Her artwork of social commentary appears in the September 11th Photo Project, which is on tour around the country. She has been organizing poetry events and workshops since the early eighties to benefit various organizations. A variety show, Lives in the Balance (2002), Marcielle organized and hosted, made $800 for the Los Angeles Coalition to End Hunger and Homelessness. She has raised money and consciousness for the Literacy Campaign, Doctors Without Borders, and others.

She has directed poetry workshops with California Poets in the Schools for 18 years. Through Performing Tree’s teaching program, she mentored a younger poet to direct poetry workshops with 4th-grade children at Los Robles Academy. She was one of the organizers, emcees, and featured artists at the Artists Helping Artists Expo at Cal State Northridge 2003, and she also organized a reading called Peace Lover Poets with UNESCO. She is a member of the Pasadena Opera Guild, Alameda Writers Group (Board Member), Museum of Tolerance, Los Angeles County Museum, KPFK Radio, and other organizations that help artists and the needy. Marcielle’s poem, “Lark in the High Desert,?appears in Eclipse: A Literary Journal in 2003. Her CD of poems called The Breathing House is available at CDBaby.com for only $10, a great discount from $20.
Marcielle on Laff it Off, Grace Fraga’s tv show
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8130130549306438467

Marcielle reads “Heart on Fire” on My space
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=1226410764

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