Teri Schwartz
Teri Schwartz
Teri Schwartz is the Dean of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television (UCLA TFT) where she has launched an exciting new vision and long-range plan that re-imagines entertainment and performing arts education as an interdisciplinary enterprise grounded in humanistic storytelling, social impact, technology and innovation and global diversity.
Prior to becoming Dean at UCLA TFT, she successfully served as the founding dean of the Loyola Marymount University School of Film and Television. Schwartz is an award-winning feature film producer, whose many films garnered nominations for Academy, Emmy, Golden Globe, Grammy and MTV awards, including Sister Act and Beaches. She is a member of the Producers Guild of America; Directors Guild of America; Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and serves on the Television Academy Foundation’s Board of Directors; The Hawn Foundation Board of Directors; the Geffen Playhouse Board of Directors; the UCLA TFT/UCA Storytelling Institute in Cannes Board; the Women’s Media Center Board of Directors; the NAACP Entertainment Board of Advisors; the Los Angeles Theater Alliance Board of Governors; the Governing Council of the Los Angeles-India Film Council; and the Board of Trustees of the Swarovski Foundation. Dean Schwartz was just appointed by the UC Board of Regents to the California State Summer School for the Arts as a Board of Trustee member.
Schwartz is the 2015 recipient of the CayFilm Cayman International Film Festival’s inaugural award for Outstanding Achievement in Film Producing. In 2013, she received the American Spirit Award from the Caucus for Producers, Writers & Directors for her Special Achievement in Educating New Filmmakers and was Variety’s 2012 Media Mentor of the Year.
Schwartz is a native of Los Angeles. She graduated magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa in English literature from UCLA in 1971, and received her master of arts degree in film from the University of London in 1973.