Author. Filmmaker. Educator.

Nina Sadowsky’s thrillers JUST FALL, THE BURIAL SOCIETY, THE EMPTY BED, CONVINCE ME, and PRIVACY have all been published by Penguin Random House. Her books have been translated into German, Japanese, Spanish, Italian, French, Turkish and Serbian. THE BURIAL SOCIETY and THE EMPTY BED are in development for television.

Nina Sadowsky serves as the founding Director for NYU Los Angeles, a study away program for advanced students interested in pursuing careers in the film, television, broadcast, music and tech industries. In her time at NYULA she’s overseen the creation of multiple professional development initiatives designed to support the students’ academic experience. Sadowsky is  particularly proud of NYULA’s role in launching the now annual Hollywood Climate Summit, designed to increase sustainability across all facets of the entertainment industry.

Sadowsky joined NYU after more than a decade at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, where she taught producing and writing on both the graduate and undergraduate levels. Student films created under her guidance have enjoyed numerous accolades including winning the Student Emmy, the Student Oscar, and being featured in the Shorts Corner at Cannes.

Sadowsky served as President of Production for Signpost Films, a film financier and foreign distributor, where she worked on such projects as the Academy Award nominated “The House of Sand and Fog,” starring Jennifer Connelly and Ben Kingsley.

 Prior to joining Signpost, she served as President of Meg Ryan's Prufrock Pictures for over five years. During her tenure, Prufrock landed first look feature deals with Fox 2000 and Castle Rock Entertainment and an overall long-form television deal with Polygram/Universal Television.

 Sadowsky served as executive producer for the hit film “The Wedding Planner,” starring Jennifer Lopez and Matthew McConaughey, produced “Desert Saints,” starring Kiefer Sutherland, the supernatural thriller, “Lost Souls,” starring Winona Ryder, the telefilm “Northern Lights,” starring Diane Keaton, and the indie feature  “Jumpin' at the Boneyard” starring Tim Roth, Jeffrey Wright and Samuel L. Jackson, which was featured in the Sundance, Montreal and Torino film festivals. 

She has written numerous original screenplays and adaptations and done rewrites for such companies as Starz, The Walt Disney Company, Working Title Films, and Lifetime Television. Sadowsky also wrote, directed and produced the short film, “The First Year’s A Bitch,” a darkly funny take on the first year of marriage, starring Christine Taylor and John Livingston, which was featured in numerous film festivals, and which won the award for best editing at the New York Short Film Festival. 

Sadowsky graduated cum laude from Connecticut College with a major in dance and a minor in creative writing, and in the top 10% of her class from The Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where she served as Articles Editor for the Arts and Entertainment Law Journal.