About Ellen Rodman, PhD

Ellen Rodman is a writer/producer and president of LN Productions LLC, a production and media consulting company based in New York.  Prior to founding LN Productions, Rodman served as an executive at NBC  where she launched the first media missing children’s campaign in connection with the broadcast of the made-for-television movie “Adam,” and at Group W where she accepted a DuPont Columbia Award for the company’s programming and community outreach on Alzheimer’s Disease, “Whispering Hope.”

Under Rodman’s leadership, LN Productions has produced, among others, “The Gift of Time” (a special for Group W Television); “After Words: The Give and Take of Adoption” (a special for Lifetime); “Your Family Matters” for Lifetime (programming and community outreach for several years); 80 hours of a daytime talk show hosted by Mary Alice Williams for a cable network; “More Money with the Dolans” (90 hours, interactive series with Ken and Daria Dolan for a cable network); “Quiet Triumphs” (13 hours for a cable network); “The Real Me Autobiographies” (10 hours for a cable network); “New Passages” (a prime-time special for ABC); “SpaFinders” (25 half-hours for a cable network); “Scandalous Art,” a pilot for Cablevision’s Bravo Network; “Access: New Age,” a pilot for WEtv; and “Food ‘n Fashion,” a pilot for NBC’s Bravo Network.

Rodman is the author of numerous articles on subjects ranging from culture and media to education and health.  Rodman was a stringer and family entertainment reviewer for The New York Times for many years and coauthored (with Richard Flaste), The New York Times Guide to Children’s Entertainment, Quadrangle, 1976.

Rodman coauthored (with Rabbi Marvin Tokayer), Pepper, Silk & Ivory: Amazing Stories about Jews and the Far East, Gefen Publishing, 2014 and Sugar in the Tea: Amazing Stories about Jews and the Far East, soon to be published.