A screen, stage, and stills creative, Todd Felderstein is the Artist-In-Residence at the west coast branch of the Actors Studio where he is a director-member and is a 2024-25 Next+ Directing Fellow at The Braid. His photography has been shown in group and solo shows around the world while productions range from on screen to stage, narrative to nonfiction.
Calling Los Angeles his home by way of Baltimore, Maryland, Todd found his niche in portrait and commercial photography in the mid-90s. He has created for many of L.A.'s top PR and commercial firms and is the photographer behind LA's award-winning "No Smoking" print and billboard campaign. Focusing his lens on the moving image, Todd then made an array of environmental shorts and rock-docs working with Tom Hayden, Bonnie Raitt, Burt Bacharach, Barbra Streisand, Ray Parker, Jr., Sterling Radcliffe, Jerry Moss, Booker T, Rufus and many others. He has photographed Coretta Scott King, Robert Kennedy, Jr., Senator Brad Sherman along with many other public figures. In narrative nonfiction, Todd made the award-winning documentary feature MAGICS which details the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians from a first person perspective during the Second Intifada.
Todd is a very happy hyphen sharing his professional career with directing and photography. He shares these passions often with students through private instruction, Samy's Photo School, the Los Angeles Center of Photography and as an instructor for Nikon.