Kevin Kaufman

Kevin Kaufman is a director and executive producer of television series and feature films.

He created the first The Real Housewives of Orange County, the most successful franchise in cable TV history, and directed and produced the 2016 feature film Ace the Case: Manhattan Mystery, starring Academy Award winner Susan Sarandon, and Ripley Sobo, star of Danny Boyle's Steve Jobs.

Film and television credits include: Kaufman produced and directed the feature documentary, The Palladium: Where Mambo Was King,[17] which also aired on Bravo and won the Imagen Award for Best Television Documentary in 2003;[18] and also wrote, directed, and produced the 1991 feature film Romeo & Julia, which won the Silver Award at the Houston International Film Festival.

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On the set of Ace the Case (L to R: Susan Sarandon , Kevin Kaufman, Rick Tirelli & Pat Darrin)