Biography
Tamara Mahoney graduated from Rowan University in New Jersey in 2001 and started her professional career as a Production Assistant for WHYY, 91-FM Philadelphia (the NPR affiliate station). She worked for Morning Edition for approximately six months before moving on to pursue a career in independent and non-commercial film exhibition. From 2001-2004, Tamara worked at the Prince Music Theater as the Program Assistant of Film at the Prince, directly under Program Director Gretjen Clausing.
The non-profit film program, though small in staff and budget, had a huge impact on the city of Philadelphia. The Prince Music Theater boasts the largest screen in the city, a 450-seat auditorium, and a smaller black box theater for video projection. Tamara became very active in the independent film community and worked on award-winning short films, documentaries, television shows, and produced her own short comedy. When she decided to leave the Prince as a full-time employee, she stayed on to freelance as the Assistant Curator for the Prince's annual Youth Film Festival in May 2004. In the same year, Tamara was asked to be a juror for the Philadelphia Film Festival. She was the youngest juror to sit on the panel, and judged the animated short films.
 Budapest Castle, November 2005 |
While spending time pursuing her own creative projects in 2004 and 2005, Tamara accepted an Administrative Assistant position with Elsevier, a global medical publishing company. After several years of hard work in both corporate and non-profit environments, Tamara left her jobs and projects behind to move to Paris, France. Two months after she arrived in France, she secured the position as the personal assistant to Sharon Pinkenson, Executive Director of the Greater Philadelphia Film Office, at the Cannes Film Festival in the south of France. Tamara then spent the better part of 2005 traveling around Europe, though she returned to the United States for five weeks to work as a Production Assistant on the set of Invincible (Ericson Core, 2006), a Disney Production. |
In 2006, Tamara held steady work in Paris as an English teacher and a Tour Guide, and continued traveling around Europe whenever possible. After over a year and a half of living, working, and traveling abroad, Tamara returned to the United States and re-located to New York City. In December 2006, she joined the staff of Teale-Edwards Productions and worked as the Post-Production Supervisor for the Food Network show Everyday Italian until February 2008, in addition to coordinating productions, maintaining the company website, and assistant editing. From February through April 2008, Tamara lived in Los Angeles and spent her free time reseraching a personal documentary video project and taking short trips to visit Portland, Oregon.
Determined to return to Europe - but not wanting to give up her career - Tamara set her sights on Amsterdam (the Netherlands) and a job at Wieden + Kennedy. She left the US in late April, took a much-needed two-month holiday, and began working in the Broadcast department in the Amsterdam office as an A/V Producer. In her free time, Tamara works on her own documentary-style web video projects, travels at every oppertunity, and cycles around Amsterdam for hours at a time. Happy with her new home, job, and bicycle, Tamara actually has no plans to move away or take a big trip anytime soon.
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