BIO: TAMAR HALPERN

Creative Director / Director / Copywriter

With a background in developing integrated media campaigns, Tamar Halpern is one of the original founders of the company CitySearch.  She has created successful viral campaigns for clients such as CBS, AOL, and Mark Burnett. While at the advertising agency SpotRunner, she wrote and directed live action commercials as well as stock footage and graphic based campaigns.  

Her background is also in filmmaking, with her feature “Shelf Life” called a “whip-smart” film that “taps into a fresh source for American Comedy” by Variety.  She has written and directed award-winning features, shorts, music videos and documentaries.  She is the co-author of “How To Live Poor and Spoiled”, due to be out in bookstores next year.  She is a proud Alum of Hedgebrook, a funded writing residency for women and holds a BA in Broadcast Journalism and an MFA in Cinema from the University of Southern California.