The Producer's Perspective Podcast with Ken Davenport
Hosted by Tony Award-winning Producer & Writer, Ken Davenport is now sharing his perspective on all things Broadway TheaterMakers.
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256 - Places, Please Series: Part 6 with Ken Davenport
One of the most fun and most productive events we had this year was our “Take Charge of Your ’21” Challenge in January. Over 500 TheaterMakers joined us to hear tips and strategies on how to have your best year yet from super successful people in the business.
255 - Places, Please Series: Part 5 with Ryan Scott Oliver and Tony Howell
One of the most fun and most productive events we had this year was our “Take Charge of Your ’21” Challenge in January. Over 500 TheaterMakers joined us to hear tips and strategies on how to have your best year yet from super successful people in the business.
254 - Places, Please Series: Part 4 with Alicia Albright and Rodrick Covington
One of the most fun and most productive events we had this year was our “Take Charge of Your ’21” Challenge in January. Over 500 TheaterMakers joined us to hear tips and strategies on how to have your best year yet from super successful people in the business.
253 - Places, Please Series: Part 3 with Stephanie Klemons and Amber Iman
One of the most fun and most productive events we had this year was our “Take Charge of Your ’21” Challenge in January. Over 500 TheaterMakers joined us to hear tips and strategies on how to have your best year yet from super successful people in the business.
252 - Places, Please Series: Part 2 with T. Oliver Reid and Bret Shuford
One of the most fun and most productive events we had this year was our “Take Charge of Your ’21” Challenge in January. Over 500 TheaterMakers joined us to hear tips and strategies on how to have your best year yet from super successful people in the business.
251 - Places, Please Series: Part 1 with Ken Davenport and Joe Rosko
One of the most fun and most productive events we had this year was our “Take Charge of Your ’21” Challenge in January. Over 500 TheaterMakers joined us to hear tips and strategies on how to have your best year yet from super successful people in the business.
250 - An Important Announcement
Thank you for listening to these conversations over the 6.5 years I've been hosting this podcast. We're not saying Goodbye . . . just see ya later! Referenced in this episode: The TheaterMakers Facebook Group: www.facebook.com/groups/theatermakersstudio.
249 - Answering 10 FAQs on Broadway Investing
About this episode: Before I crowdfunded Godspell, I had a thesis. “There are thousands of people out there who would love to invest in Broadway shows . . . they just don’t know how to do it, or who to talk to.” Sure enough, when we announced our plans for Godspell, thousands of leads poured in.
248 - Broadway's Advantage To Its Comeback
About this episode: This shutdown has lasted longer than we thought possible. And while we're (slowly) reopening now, a year and a half later, there are real reasons why our leadership waited. Listen to this 8-minute episode to find out what our advantage is to reopening.
247 - My Revised Look At What Broadway’s Recovery Will Look Like
Things have changed since May of 2020. Shoot, things have changed since yesterday! But since May of 2020, when I first posted my “What The Broadway Recovery Will Look Like” series? Well, dang it, can any of you have imagined that we’d only have one Broadway show running a year later?
246 - An Off Broadway Model On Broadway
I arrived in New York City during the Golden Age of Off-Broadway. Forever Plaid, Nunsense, And The World Goes Round, Cryptogram, Family Secrets, and more, were a few of the shows running in theaters under 499 seats . . . in commercial productions!
245 - The Best Advice I Received At The Start of the Broadway Shutdown
At the beginning of the pandemic, I called everyone I knew for advice. I’m talking big time theater people, as well as big time business people. I got amazing advice. And it reminded me how important it was to ask for advice from others who are at places in their lives where you want to be.
244 - What TheatreMakers Can Learn From Simone Biles
If you've been following The Olympics this year, or if you're on the internet, you probably heard Simone Biles withdrew from an individual all-around gymnastics competition at the Tokyo Olympics in an effort to focus on her mental health and well-being, a decision which came one day after she removed herself from the team final.
243 - "As Seen On TV" Commercials
Remember infomercials? Late night shopping, 'as seen on TV' commercials? I discovered what worked with those commercials and how the most successful plays/musicals used a very similar technique. Referenced in this episode: The TheaterMakers Facebook Group: www.facebook.com/groups/theatermakersstudio.
242 - What Movie Companies Did That Streaming Companies Should Do
In the early 2000s, I met with one of the most powerful people in Hollywood. We discussed the differences between the business models of theater and film. How Hollywood owned scripts instead of licensed them. How producers in Hollywood became hired guns after they proved themselves.
241 - The Hardest Part of Creating a New Show
I'm sharing what I believe to be the hardest part of creating a new musical or play . . . and how I've overcome that. And how you can apply this to YOUR process. Referenced in this episode: 30 Day Play Challenge: www.30DayPlayChallenge.com.
240 - How NOT to Fundraise For Your Project
After watching one of the most recent NYC Mayoral debates this year, I realized one profession who has to raise more money than a Broadway Producer is a Politician. And after reading through many MANY emails from Politicians asking for donations, I studied their techniques and marketing strategies .
239 - "What do I do now as a theater graduate?"
Thousands of theater students have graduated this year. I can’t imagine being a student right now, nevermind a theater student. I recently had one of those students Facebook me asking “what the @#$% do I do now?” And in this podcast episode, I answer that question.
238 - What About Broadway?
In my 30 years (!) living in New York City, I’ve never watched a Mayoral debate. But with all that’s riding on the next Mayor of NYC, you can bet your A-train that I tuned into the debate between the leading candidates.
237 - New Destination Only For TheaterMakers
When I was in college at Tisch, I, like every other student at NYU, tried to get into nightclubs on the weekend. And for some reason, the fancy door people, with their super chic outfits, always turned me away.
236 - 10 Audition Tips For Actors
Sitting on the other side of the table is something that every actor should do. It’s incredibly educational and inspirational because frankly, you realize that while there are lots and lots of people who call themselves actors, there's a much smaller group of actors (and talent is only a small part of that definition, by the by).
235 - 3 Reasons Why Crowdfunding Did NOT Take Off on Broadway
It has been 10 years (!) since I crowdfunded Godspell. It remains one of the most difficult things I’ve ever done in this business. It took two years to put together. It took three law firms. I had to pass a securities exam.
234 - The Answer I Hope To Hear From Ticketbuyers
As the theater comes back to life, marketing is going to be more important than ever before. But before we start advertising, there are things we need to do first: ask our audience how they're feeling about returning, what's on their minds about the return of theater, what type of theater they are in the mood to see, etc.
233 - Eight Shows a Week on Broadway
Today, I explore what it would mean if Broadway was allowed to run less than 8 shows a week. Referenced in this episode: "8 Shows a What?": https://www.theproducersperspective.com/my_weblog/2007/11/8-shows-a-what.html.
232 - Broadway vs. Hollywood: Pitching Your Show
I'm talking about the biggest difference between Hollywood and Broadway: how they option your shows. If you want to read more of my thoughts on this topic, go to my blog. Referenced in this episode: The TheaterMakers Facebook Group: www.facebook.com/groups/theatermakersstudio.
231 - Two Things You Can Do To Get Theater Back Faster
Here are two things you can do to help theater get back FASTER. If you want to read more of my thoughts on this topic, go to my blog. Referenced in this episode: My "Get Vaxxed" post: www.instagram.com/kendavenportbway. The Producer's Perspective: www.theproducersperspetive.com.
230 - "Why We Should Not Use The Term 'Jukebox Musicals' Anymore"
I think we should retire the term "Jukebox Muscals". Why? Because I believe there are better terms we can use to describe this genre of musicals. If you want to read more of my thoughts on this topic, go to my blog. Referenced in this episode: Rock of Ages.
229 - "Revivals: An Endangered Species?"
Are revivals an endangered species? What do we do with the beloved classics? What replaces revivals if they go away? Are new musicals the most reliable way to recoup (the measurement of how successful a show is)? I unpack all of this and more in this episode.
228 - "How Bumble Helps Me Make Theater"
In February, Whitney Wolfe Herd became the youngest female billionaire on the planet. And she did it by breaking into one of the most competitive markets around . . . online dating. Whenever anyone breaks through ceilings like Whitney, the first thing I do is jump up and down for them and tell as many people as I can.
227 - "5 Things I Learned About Social"
My team and I tested social media trends and found what is working and what's not working. And today, I'm sharing 5 of our findings with YOU. If you want to read more of my thoughts on this topic, go to my blog. Referenced in this episode: Rachel Hollis: www.thehollisco.com.
226 - 3 Reasons Social Distancing Doesn't Work For Theater
I am sharing my perspective on why social distancing doesn't work for the theater. If you want to read more of my thoughts on this topic, go to my blog. About the podcast: After 6 years of podcasting with one style, we're shaking it up here - no guests!
225 - New Actors Equity Association Protocols
I am responding to the NEW protocols released by Actors Equity Association for the return of live theater. As reported by Phillip Boroff (formerly of Bloomberg News and now of his own Broadway Journal), those protocols include things like: Mass transport cannot be used.
224 - "5 Phases of Broadway's Return"
Today, I am sharing the 5 phases I believe we will see as Broadway makes its big comeback! After 6 years of podcasting with one style, we're shaking it up here - no guests! Just me! I'm giving you micro-episodes with my perspective on Broadway and the comeback on Broadway.
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213 - Irene Gandy
IRENE GANDY is the only Black female member of ATPAM (Association of Theatrical Press Agents and Managers) on Broadway. She has been a press agent works with Jeffrey Richards Associates.
212 - William Ivey Long
WILLIAM IVEY LONG designs for opera, ballet, modern dance, theatre, television, and film. He has 76 Broadway credits - including the new musical DIANA, CHICAGO, BEETLEJUICE, TOOTSIE, CINDERELLA, GREY GARDENS, HAIRSPRAY, PRODUCERS, CRAZY FOR YOU, NINE.
211 - Diana DiMenna
Diana DiMenna is an award-winning theater and film producer and philanthropist. Her Broadway credits include Girl From The North Country, What the Constitution Means to Me; Network; Three Tall Women; Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812; Bright Star; A Doll's House, Part Two; Meteor Shower; and The Humans (national tour).
210 - Adam Feldman
Adam Feldman is the Theater and Dance Editor and chief theater critic at Time Out New York, where he has been a staff writer since 2003. He is the president of the New York Drama Critics’ Circle. To keep up with Adam, his cabaret performances at Club Cumming, and more .
209 - Alex Brightman
Alex Brightman is an actor and writer, best known for originating the role of Dewey Finn in School of Rock and the title role in Beetlejuice on Broadway, both of which earned him Tony Award nominations for Best Actor in a Musical.
208 - Maddie Corman
Maddie Corman's career began when she appeared in the seminal ‘80s movies Seven Minutes in Heaven and Some Kind of Wonderful. Maddie was a series regular on “Mr.
207 - Vivek Tiwary
Vivek J. Tiwary is an acclaimed producer of live entertainment from Tony Award-winning Broadway shows to groundbreaking immersive experiences, a media financier/investor, and a #1 New York Times bestselling author. He is the founder of Tiwary Entertainment Group.
206 - Thomas Schumacher
Thomas Schumacher serves as President & Producer of Disney Theatrical Productions, overseeing the development, creation and execution of Disney’s legitimate stage entertainment worldwide.
205 - 2019 Season Finale
In this episode, we celebrated the end of a decade and the end of the 2019 season of The Producer's Perspective Podcast with inspirational and funny quotes from previous guests!
204 - Alan Cumming
Alan Cumming is a Scottish-American actor, comedian, singer, writer, producer, director, and activist who has appeared in numerous films, television shows, and plays/musicals.
203 - Glen Kelly
Glen Kelly is a music arranger (especially of dance music) and composer. He is best known for his musical theatre arrangements for Broadway shows including Beauty and Beast, The Producers, Young Frankenstein, Spamalot, The Drowsy Chaperone, The Book of Mormon, and Aladdin.
202 - Ken Cerniglia
Ken Cerniglia is a veteran dramaturg, writer, and creative executive. He dramaturged the innovative Broadway hits Hadestown (8 Tony Awards, including Best Musical) and Peter and the Starcatcher (5 Tony Awards).
201 - Charlotte Wilcox
Charlotte Wilcox, Broadway General Manager, started her company in 1990 and has managed over 40 musicals and one play, CYRANO starring Kevin Klein and Jennifer Garner.
200 - Mara Isaacs
Mara Isaacs (Producer) is a Tony® Award-winning producer and founder of Octopus Theatricals, an independent company dedicated to fostering an expansive range of compelling theatrical works for local, national and international audiences.
199 - Ali Stroker
Groundbreaking performer Ali Stroker won the 2019 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her role as ‘Ado Annie’ in Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma!
198 - Anthony Veneziale
Anthony Veneziale (Two-Touch) is the conceiver and co-creator Freestyle Love Supreme and FLS Academy. Founding member of American Immigrants (San Francisco).
197 - Adam Gwon
Adam Gwon is a musical theater writer named one of "50 to Watch" by The Dramatist magazine and hailed "a promising newcomer to our talent-hungry musical theater" by The New York Times. His musicals have been produced on six continents, in more than half a dozen languages.
196 - Susan Blackwell
Susan Blackwell is an actress, writer, and singer, best known for playing characters based on herself in the original musicals [title of show] and Now. Here. This. She has appeared in other plays, musicals, films, and television shows, and even created and hosts her own talk show Side by Side by Susan Blackwell on Broadway.com.
195 - Stephanie Lee
Stephanie Lee, born into the family business, has worked her way through just about every position in the company! Now, as CEO/President, Stephanie has the unique advantage of being able to offer her team and clients more than 20 years of hands-on experience and knowledge of group trips to Broadway.
194 - Mark Sendroff
Mark Sendroff started his law career at the firm of Bomser & Oppenheim in 1975 and moved to the firm of Gottlieb, Schiff, Ticktin & Sternklar in 1979, eventually becoming a partner until that firm’s dissolution in 1995, at which time he founded Sendroff & Associates, P.C.
193 - Julie Halston
If you don’t know Broadway Funny Girl Julie Halston, you are in for a treat. She’s one of the fiercest comediennes we have, currently playing and flambaying a Producer (!) on Broadway in Tootsie, but has been in everything from Gypsy (where we met) to You Can’t Take It With You to Hairspray to Anything Goes and more.
192 - Chad Beguelin
Chad Beguelin wrote the lyrics and co-wrote the book for The Prom. He also wrote the book for Disney's Aladdin, as well as additional lyrics for the score. He is also known for having written the lyrics and co-written the book for the Broadway musical The Wedding Singer and the lyrics for the Broadway musical Elf the Musical.
191 - Warren Carlyle
Warren Carlyle (Kiss Me Kate) is a British director and choreographer, nominated this season for Best Choreography. He received Drama Desk Award nominations for Outstanding Choreography and Outstanding Director of a Musical for the 2009 revival of Finian's Rainbow.
190 - Paul Gordon
Paul Gordon is a composer and lyricist nominated for a 2001 Tony Award for the music and lyrics to the musical Jane Eyre.
189 - Robert Horn
Robert Horn is a playwright, screenwriter and producer, best known as the Tony-nominated book writer for Broadway musicals Tootsie and 13. Other works include the books for Dame Edna, Back with a Vengeance; Moonshine: That Hee Haw Musical; Lone Star Love; and Dandy.
188 - Josh Bergasse
Josh Bergasse is an Emmy Award winning choreographer for his work on NBC’s musical drama SMASH. He also choreographed multiple segments on So You Think You Can Dance and PBS's Sinatra: A Voice for a Century.
187 - Michael Mayer
Michael Mayer is an American theatre director, filmmaker, and playwright who won the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical in 2007 for directing Spring Awakening, which also won the award for Best Musical.
186 - Dominique Morisseau
Dominique Morisseau has authored over nine plays, including The Detroit Project (A 3-Play Cycle), which includes the following plays: Skeleton Crew, Paradise Blue, and Detroit '67. Additional plays include Pipeline, Sunset Baby, Blood at the Roo, and Follow Me To Nellie's.
185 - Julia Jordan
Julia Jordan is an American playwright, television writer, and screenwriter. Her plays include St. Paul, Nightswim, Summer Of The Swans, Tatjana in Color, Dark Yellow, and Walk Two Moons. In 2000, her short film "The Hat", debuted at the Sundance Film Festival.
184 - Jason Moore
Jason Moore is a director of film, theatre, and television. He directed the musical Avenue Q, which opened Off-Broadway at the Vineyard Theatre and then moved to Broadway in July 2003. He was nominated for a 2004 Tony Award for his direction.
184 - Meryl Streep
Meryl Streep is often described as the "best actress of her generation", she is particularly known for her versatility and accents. Nominated for a record 21 Academy Awards, she has won three. Among other accolades, she has received 32 Golden Globe nominations, more than any other person, and won eight.
183 - Jennifer Tepper
Jennifer Tepper is producer of the musicals Be More Chill, Broadway Bounty Hunter, and Love In Hate Nation. She is also the Creative and Programming Director at Feinstein's/54 Below, and the author of The Untold Stories of Broadway book series.
182 - Jason Alexander
Jason Alexander is an actor, voice actor, singer, comedian, and director. He is best known for his role as George Costanza in the television series Seinfeld, for which he was nominated for seven consecutive Primetime Emmy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards.
181 - Hillary Blanken
Hillary Blanken is a stage manager, production manager, technical supervisor, and the founder of Juniper Street Productions, a Production Management and Technical Supervision firm specializing in live theatrical productions.
180 - Stephen Oremus
Stephen Oremus is a musician who has worked on Broadway theatre productions as musical director and as orchestrator. His credits include arranger and orchestrator for the music for Avenue Q, musical director and arranger for Wicked, arranger and orchestrator for All Shook Up, and musical director for 9 to 5.
179 - Joan Marcus
Joan Marcus is a theatrical photographer based in Manhattan, New York, United States. She has been active as a theatrical photographer in Washington, D.C. and New York City for most of her career.
178 - Sean Cercone
Sean Cercone served as Chief Business Officer and Senior Vice President of Professional and International Licensing for Theatrical Rights Worldwide (TRW).
177 - Tom Viertel
Tom Viertel has produced a wide range of plays and musicals on and off Broadway, in London and on tour for over 30 years, including Hairspray, The Producers, A Little Night Music, The Encounter, Young Frankenstein, Little Shop of Horrors, The Weir, The Sound of Music, Smokey Joe’s Café, Driving Miss Daisy, and many others.
176 - Maury Yeston
Maury Yeston is a composer, lyricist, educator, and musicologist. He is known for initiating new Broadway musicals, and writing their music and lyrics, among them Nine in 1982, and Titanic in 1997, both of which won him Tony Awards for best musical and best score and each brought him nominations for a Grammy.
175 - Ryan Scott Oliver
Ryan Scott Oliver is a musical theatre composer and lyricist. He is a 2011 Lucille Lortel Award Nominee and the recipient of both the 2009 Jonathan Larson Grant and the 2008 Richard Rodgers Award for Musical Theater.He is also creator of the blog Crazytown.
174 – Alfred Uhry
Alfred Uhry is a playwright and screenwriter. He has received an Academy Award, two Tony Awards and the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for dramatic writing for Driving Miss Daisy.
173 - David Chase
David Chase is a Musical Director, Music Supervisor, and Dance Arranger for many broadway shows such as Evita, Anything Goes, Elf, Promises, The Little Mermaid, Cry-baby, Curtains, The Wedding Singer, The Pajama Game, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Kiss Me, Kate, Billy Elliot, Flower Drum Song, The Music Man, and many more.
172 - Sierra Boggess
Sierra Boggess is a theater actress and singer, best known for originating the role of Ariel in The Little Mermaid on Broadway and for her multiple appearances as Christine Daaé in The Phantom of the Opera.
171 - Paula Wagner
Paula Wagner is a film producer and film executive who was, for a time, frequently described as "the most powerful woman in Hollywood". She has produced movies such as Mission: Impossible, The Others, The Last Samurai, Shattered Glass, Narc, Elizabethtown, and Ask the Dust, as well as Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds.
170 - Max Grossman
Max Grossman is an agent at Abrams Artists Agency, where he represents writers, composers, directors, and designers for theatre, opera, and television. He began his career in representation at ICM, and prior to moving to Abrams, was the Creative Executive at Scott Rudin Productions in charge of theatrical development.
169 - Rachel Chavkin
Rachel Chavkin is a stage director, best known for directing the musicals Natasha, Pierre, & The Great Comet of 1812 and Hadestown. She has directed and created many works for The TEAM, including award-winning and internationally touring plays, such as Roosevelvis, Mission Drift and Architecting.
168 - Bobby Longbottom
Robert Longbottom is a director, choreographer and director, primarily for theatre and opera. He made his Broadway debut as a director and choreographer with the original Broadway production of the Tony Award-nominated musical, Side Show in 1997.
167 - Jack Viertel
Jack Viertel is the senior vice president of Jujamcyn Theaters, which owns and operates five Broadway theaters. He has been involved in dozens of productions presented by Jujamcyn since 1987. He has also helped shepherd six of August Wilson’s plays to Broadway.
166 - Kristen Blodgette
Kristen Blodgette is a musical director, musical supervisor, and conductor, known for her many works with Andrew Lloyd Webber since conducting the National Tour of Cats in 1985.
165 - Kirsten Childs
Kirsten Childs is an American playwright, librettist, and former actress. She began her theatrical career in the late 1970s as a Broadway performer in Chicago. She went on to appear in productions of Dancin', Jerry's Girls, and Sweet Charity.
164 - Michael Greif
Michael Greif is a American stage director. He has won three Obie Awards and received four Tony Award nominations, for Rent, Grey Gardens, Next to Normal, and Dear Evan Hansen.
163 - Daniel Goldfarb
Daniel Goldfarb is a producer and playwright. He made his Broadway debut with Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me and his off-Broadway credits include the plays Cradle and All; Sarah, Sarah; The Retributionists; Modern Orthodox; Adam Baum and the Jew Movie; and most recently the musical Piece of my Heart.
162 - Michael John LaChiusa
Michael John LaChiusa is a musical theatre and opera composer, lyricist, and librettist. He is best known for musically esoteric shows such as Hello Again, Marie Christine, The Wild Party, and See What I Wanna See.
161 - Richard Maltby
Richard Maltby Jr. is a theatre director and producer, lyricist, and screenwriter. He conceived and directed the only two musical revues to win the Tony Award for Best Musical: Ain't Misbehavin' and Fosse.
160 - Joe Iconis
Joseph Iconis is a composer, lyricist, and playwright. He is best known for writing the music and lyrics to the Broadway musical Be More Chill. He has won awards such as the 2006 Jonathan Larson Award and the 2007 Ed Kleban Award.
159 - David Auburn
David Auburn is a playwright, screenwriter, and theatre director. He is best known for his 2000 play Proof, which won the 2001 Tony Award for Best Play and Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and was later adapted into a film in 2005.
158 - John Weidman
John Weidman is a librettist and television writer for Sesame Street, for which he and the writing team have won more than a dozen Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing For A Children's Series.
157 - Rebecca Taichman
Rebecca Taichman is a theatre director. In 2017 she received the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play for Indecent. She is an affiliated artist at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in D.C, where she has directed Taming of the Shrew, Twelfth Night (2008), The Winter's Tale and Cymbeline (2011).
156 - David Lindsay-Abaire
David Lindsay-Abaire is a playwright, lyricist and screenwriter. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2007 for his play Rabbit Hole, which also earned several Tony Award nominations.
155 - Nelle Nugent
Nelle Nugent is an independent Broadway producer. She has overseen productions such as Amadeus, Morning's at Seven, The Elephant Man, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, and Dracula; awards she has won includes Tonys for all five listed shows.
154 - Lisa Kron
Lisa Kron is an actress and playwright. She is best known for writing the lyrics and book to the musical Fun Home for which she won both the Tony Award for Best Original Score and the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical.
153 - Warren Leight
Warren Leight is an American playwright, screenwriter, film director and television producer. He is best known for his work on Law & Order: Criminal Intent and Lights Out and as the showrunner for In Treatment and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
151 - Michael Korie
Michael Korie is a librettist and lyricist whose writing for musical theater and opera includes the musicals Grey Gardens and Far From Heaven, and the operas Harvey Milk and The Grapes of Wrath. His works have been produced on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and internationally.
150 - Danny Burstein
Danny Burstein is an actor of stage and screen, who made his Broadway debut in 1992. He is a six-time Tony Award nominee; for The Drowsy Chaperone, South Pacific, Follies, Golden Boy, Cabaret, and Fiddler on the Roof.
149 - Charles LaPointe
Charles LaPointe is a theatrical hair and wig designer with work in more than 50 Broadway shows including Holiday Inn, On Your Feet!, Hamilton, The Color Purple, Of Mice and Men, Violet, Side Show, The Elephant Man, After Midnight, Beautiful, A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder, Motown, Jekyll & Hyde, Clybourne Park, Bring It On, Newsies, Memphis, Lombardi, Fences, In the Heights, Jersey Boys, and A Raisin in the Sun.
148 - Sergio Trujillo
Sergio Trujillo is a dancer and stage choreographer. He was the recipient of the 2015 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Theatre Choreographer for Memphis and the 2019 Tony Award for Best Choreography for Ain't Too Proud.
147 - Walter Bobbie
Walter Bobbie is a theatre director, choreographer, and occasional actor and dancer. Bobbie has directed both musicals and plays on Broadway and Off-Broadway, and was the Artistic Director of the New York City Center Encores! concert series.
146 - Sheryl Kaller
Sheryl Kaller is a theatrical director. She has Broadway credits that include Mothers and Sons and Next Fall by Geoffrey Nauffts, for which she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Director.
145 - Jonathan Lomma
Jonathan Lomma is a literary agent with William Morris Endeavor and former child actor. He represents authors, directors, lyricists, writers, and choreographers such as Terrence McNally, Arthur Laurents, and Edward Albee.
144 - Pam MacKinnon
Pam MacKinnon is a theatre director. She has directed for the stage Off-Broadway, on Broadway and in regional theatre. She won the Obie Award for Directing and received a Tony Award nomination, Best Director, for her work on Clybourne Park.
143 - Catherine Zuber
Catherine Zuber is a costume designer for the Broadway theater and opera, among other venues.
142 - Jerry Zaks
Jerry Zaks is a stage and television director, and actor. He won the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play and Drama Desk Award for directing The House of Blue Leaves, Lend Me a Tenor, and Six Degrees of Separation and the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical and Drama Desk Award for Guys and Dolls.
141 - Doug Hughes
Douglas Hughes is an American theatre director. He has directed both Off-Broadway and on Broadway. Hughes worked for 12 years as the associate artistic director of Seattle Repertory Theatre, from 1984 to 1996.
140 - Mark Hoebee
Mark Hoebee is a producing artistic director at the Paper Mill Playhouse and has been since 2000.
139 - Mike Rafael
Mike Rafael is a ticket analyst and owner of NEXUS, a ticketing solutions company that helps “Broadway sell the right ticket to the right person at the right time”. He works with Broadway and theatrical productions on ticket inventory management, pricing strategies, developing new sales channels and marketing/promotions.
138 - Kwame Kwei-Armah
Kwame Kwei-Armah is a British actor, playwright, director, singer and broadcaster. In 2005 he became the second black Briton to have a play staged in the West End of London. Kwei-Armah's award-winning piece Elmina's Kitchen transferred to the Garrick Theatre in 2005.
137 - Trip Cullman
Trip Cullman is a theatrical director who graduated from the Yale School of Drama. His Broadway credits include Six Degrees of Separation, and Significant Other.
136 - Carl Pasbjerg
Carl Pasbjerg is a director and manager. He is also the head of Alchemy Production Group along with senior General Managers, Marshall Purdy and Abbie Strassler, and Associate General Manager, Lauren Tucker.
135 - Kyle Jarrow
Kyle Jarrow is a writer and rock musician. His writing career began in theater, winning an Obie Award in 2004 for A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant, a satirical musical about L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology.
134 - Pat Cook
Pat Cook is a musical theatre composer, actor, and author, as well as the Director of Musical Theatre and Jazz for Broadcast Music, Inc. He worked for many years in his early career as an actor, appearing on Broadway in A Mother’s Kisses, in the National Tour of 1776, and Off-Broadway in Dark of the Moon and Early Morning.
133 - Jonathan Rand
Jonathan Rand is among the most popular contemporary playwrights writing today, his stage plays having been performed over 23,000 times in theaters across 65 countries. According to an independent survey of American schools, his one-act comedy Check Please was the #1 most-produced short play every season for the last 15 years.
132 - David Korins
David Korins is a creative director and principal designer of his creative firm. He has been awarded an Emmy, Lortel Award, an Obie Award for Sustained Excellence in Design, two Drama Desk Awards, three Henry Hewes Design Awards, and three Tony Award nominations.
131 - Kelly Leonard
Kelly Leonard is an author, public speaker and theater producer. He is the Executive Vice President of The Second City and The President of Second City Theatricals.
130 - Michael Passaro
Michael Passaro is a production stage manager. He has stage managed well over 100 shows, such as Evita, A Steady Rain, Impressionism, White Christmas, Phantom, Les Misérables, History Boys, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Chicago, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Cabaret, Pippin, Carousel, and Angels in America.
129 - Tom Kitt
Tom Kitt is a composer, conductor, orchestrator, and musician. For his score for the musical Next to Normal, he shared the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama with Brian Yorkey. He has also won a Tony Award and Outer Critics Circle Award, and was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for American Idiot and Everyday Rapture.
128 - Chris Jones
Chris Jones is a British-American journalist and academic. He is the chief theater critic and Sunday culture columnist of the Chicago Tribune. Jones started his career as a critic in the 1980s by contributing film reviews, interviews, and reports for WCBE-FM in Columbus, Ohio.
127 – Chazz Palminteri
Chazz Palminteri is an actor, screenwriter, producer and playwright. He is best known for his Academy Award-nominated role for Best Supporting Actor in Bullets over Broadway, the 1993 film A Bronx Tale, based on his play of the same name, Special Agent Dave Kujan in The Usual Suspects, Primo Sidone in Analyze This and his recurring role as Shorty in Modern Family.
126 - Randy Buck
Randy Buck is the CEO of Troika Organization for which he has produced over 50 productions across the globe. Before joining Troika in 1999, Mr. Buck was vice president and general manager for Livent in Toronto.
125 - David Javerbaum
David Javerbaum is a comedy writer. He has won 13 Emmy Awards in his career, 11 of which he received for his work on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
124 - Scott Elliott
Scott Elliott is an artistic director and the founder of The New Group, a non-profit company with a commitment to developing and producing powerful, contemporary theater. He has directed shows such as Avenue Q, Present Laughter, The Three Sisters, Barefoot in the Park, and The Threepenny Opera.
123 - Irene Sankoff and David Hein
Irene Sankoff and David Hein are a Canadian librettist and composer-lyricist couple, best known for co-writing the Broadway musical Come From Away.
122 - Sara Fitzpatrick
Sara Fitzpatrick is a marketer and founder of the advertising agency, Art House. She has been in charge of marketing for shows including Lennon, The Color Purple, Lestat, Stomp, A Chorus Line, The Times They Are A-Changin', and Come From Away.
121 - Don Scardino
Don Scardino is a television director and producer and a former actor. His first Broadway credit was as an understudy in The Playroom in 1965. Additional Broadway acting credits include Johnny No-Trump, Godspell, and King of Hearts.
120 - Lia Vollack
Lia Vollack is a record executive. In 1974, she moved to New York City, where she would find work as a sound designer for Broadway and Off-Broadway shows such as On the Waterfront and The Heidi Chronicles; she continued working as a sound effects freelancer and music editor until 1997, when she was hired by Sony.
119 - Robert Fried
Robert Fried is an accountant who provides service to hundreds of theatrical productions, both in the United States and abroad.
118 - Nancy Gibbs
Nancy Gibbs is a producer and manager for theatrical shows. She won the Tony Award for Best Musical for her producer work in Fun Home. She also won a Drama Desk Award recently for Come From Away for Outstanding Musical, alongside her co-producer, Michael Alden.
117 - Eva Price
Eva Price is a Tony Award-winning producer of Broadway plays, musicals and concerts, a member of The Broadway League's Board of Governors, and on the producing team of Killer Content and Abigail Disney's venture Level Forward.
116 - Rob Ashford
Rob Ashford is a stage director and choreographer. He is a Tony Award, Olivier Award, Emmy Award, Drama Desk Award, and Outer Critics Circle Award winner. As a dancer, he made his Broadway debut in the 1987 Lincoln Center revival of Anything Goes starring Patti LuPone.
115 - Scott Ellis
Scott Ellis is a stage director, actor, and television director. Before he became a director, Ellis was a successful stage actor; he performed on Broadway in the original casts of the 1980 original musical Musical Chairs and The Rink.
114 - Sean Flahaven
Sean Flahaven is the founding worldwide CEO of The Musical Company, a joint venture between Concord Music, now the fifth largest music company in the world, and The Really Useful Group, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s landmark production company.
113 - Kathleen Marshall
Kathleen Marshall is a director, choreographer, and creative consultant. She began her Broadway career as an assistant to her brother Rob, the choreographer of Kiss of the Spider Woman, in 1993. The two also collaborated on She Loves Me, Damn Yankees, Victor/Victoria, and Seussical.
112 - Matt Sklar
Matt Sklar is a composer for musical theatre, television, and film. His works have appeared on Broadway, the West End, and many theatres worldwide. He began playing keyboards for the Broadway production of Les Misérables, eventually conducting the show at age 21.
111 - Derek McLane
Derek McLane is a set designer for theatre, opera, and television. McLane has designed more than 300 productions at theatres throughout the United States and around the world, for Broadway, Off-Broadway and major live television.
110 - Neil Pepe
Neil Pepe is an acclaimed director. His Broadway credits include Hands on a Hardbody, the acclaimed revival of Speed-the-Plow, and A Life in the Theatre.
109 - Stacey Mindich
Stacey Mindich is a two-time Tony Award-winning Broadway producer. As the lead producer of Dear Evan Hansen, she nurtured this original musical from an idea presented at a long-ago lunch with the composers Benj Pasek and Justin Paul.
108 - Glenn Slater
Glenn Slater is a lyricist who collaborates with Alan Menken and other musical theatre composers. He was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Original Score for the Broadway version of The Little Mermaid at the Tony Awards in 2008, and another Tony nomination for Sister Act at the 65th Tony Awards in 2011.
107 – Beowulf Boritt
Beowulf Boritt is a scenic designer for theater. He is known for his Tony Award winning design for the play Act One in 2014. Hal Prince asked him to design Daisy Prince's production of The Last Five Years and later Prince's own production Paradise Found.
106 – Natasha Katz
Natasha Katz is a lighting designer for the theatre, dance, and opera. She won the 2016 Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of a Play for her work on Long Day’s Journey Into Night. She has 6 Tony Awards (3 plays, 3 musicals).
105 – The Rego Brothers
Matt and Mike Rego are brothers but also founding partners of The Araca Group, along with their longtime friend, Hank Unger. First achieving notoriety as producers of the musical Urinetown, the company has gradually become more involved in merchandising following the success of Wicked.
104 – Jerry Mitchell
Jerry Mitchell is an American theatre director and choreographer. His early Broadway credits were as a dancer in The Will Rogers Follies, Brigadoon, and On Your Toes. His first professional credit as a choreographer was for the 1990 world premiere of the musical Jekyll & Hyde.
103 – Heather Hitchens
Heather Hitchens is a nationally recognized arts leader with nearly 30 years of performing arts administration, policy, and program development experience. She currently serves as President & CEO of the American Theatre Wing (ATW).
102 – Howard Sherman
Howard Sherman is an arts administrator, advocate and writer.He was the executive director of the American Theatre Wing from 2003 to 2011.
101 – Kenny Leon
Kenny Leon is a director notable for his work on Broadway and in regional theater. He gained prominence in 1988, when he became one of the few African Americans to head a notable non-profit theater company as the artistic director of Atlanta's Alliance Theatre Company.
100 – David Stone
David Stone is a theatre producer. He had his first contact with the theatre business through an internship at Jujamcyn Theaters. Later he worked with Broadway producers Fran and Barry Weisler, before he had his first own production with the 1993 off-Broadway hit Family Secrets.
99 – Chris Herzberger
Chris Herzberger is a producer and the VP of Live Theatricals for Universal. In this role, he oversees the day-to-day operation and long-term growth initiatives of the studio’s live stage division, which includes both Universal Stage Productions and DreamWorks Theatricals.
98 – Alex Timbers
Alex Timbers is a two-time Tony-nominated writer and director and the recipient of Golden Globe, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, and London Evening Standard Awards, as well as two OBIE and Lucille Lortel Awards. He is the recipient of the 2016 Jerome Robbins Award.
97 – Jack O’Brien
Jack O'Brien is a director, producer, writer and lyricist. He served as the Artistic Director of the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, California from 1981 through the end of 2007. He has won three Tony Awards and been nominated for seven more, and won five Drama Desk Awards.
96 – Andrew Lippa
Andrew Lippa is a composer, lyricist, book writer, performer, and producer. He is a resident artist at the Ars Nova Theater in New York City. He began his professional theatrical career at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, Connecticut.
95 – Randy Weiner
Randy Weiner is a playwright, producer and theater and nightclub owner. Weiner is the creator of Queen of the Night at the Paramount Hotel in New York City, and recently served as the dramaturg for Cirque du Soleil's Amaluna.
94 – Joe DiPietro
Joe DiPietro is a playwright, lyricist, and author. He is best known for the Tony Award-winning musical Memphis, as well as for writing the book and lyrics for the long-running off-Broadway show I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change, which ran for twelve years off-Broadway.
93 – Bess Wohl
Bess Wohl is a playwright, screenwriter, and actress whose plays include Small Mouth Sounds, and the book for the musical Pretty Filthy with composer/lyricist Michael Friedman and The Civilians. Her plays have been produced in numerous venues in New York City and around the United States.
92 – Lynne Meadow
Lynne Meadow is a theatre producer, director and a teacher. She has been the artistic director of the Manhattan Theatre Club since 1972.
91 – Rick Elice
Rick Elice is a writer and former stage actor. Along with Marshall Brickman, he wrote the book for the Broadway musical Jersey Boys, which received a Tony Award nomination and a Drama Desk nomination for best book for a musical in 2006.
90 – Chris Stasiuk
Chris Stasiuk is a Senior Box Office Executive with over 25 years of experience in entertainment ticketing and venue management. She started in 2015 as the Head Treasurer of the St. James Theater. The St. James Theater is one of America's most iconic Broadway venues.
89 – Tara Rubin
Tara Rubin is a casting director with her own casting company since 2001. Before that, she was a casting director at Johnson-Liff Associates. During those years she worked on productions of Les Miserables, Phantom of the Opera, Cats, Sunset Boulevard, Jerry Zaks' revival of Guys and Dolls and Miss Saigon.
88 – Charles Isherwood
Charles Isherwood is an American theater critic. He wrote for Back Stage West in Los Angeles. In 1993, he joined the staff of Variety, where he was promoted to the position of chief theatre critic in 1998. In 2004, Isherwood was hired by the New York Times.
87 – Richard Frankel
Richard Frankel is a six-time Tony-winning Theatrical Producer and General Manager who has been producing and managing on and off-Broadway since 1970. He has been working in partnership with Tom Viertel, Steve Baruch, and Marc Routh since 1985.
86 – Manny Azenberg
Manny Azenberg is a theatre producer and general manager whose professional relationship with playwright Neil Simon spans thirty-three years.
85 – Craig Zadan and Neil Meron
Craig Zadan is a producer and writer. Working alone and with Neil Meron, his partner in the production company Storyline Entertainment, he produced such films as Footloose, Chicago and Hairspray. Neil Meron is a film producer known for producing the 2002 film Chicago and the 2007 film Hairspray.
84 – Barry Weissler
Barry Weissler is a Tony Award-winning American theatrical producer. He met his wife, Fran, in 1964 during an engagement of a touring theatrical production in New Jersey.
83 – Brian Mahoney
Brian Mahoney has been at the Shubert Organization for more than 35 years.
82 – Steven Pasquale
Steven Pasquale is an actor of stage, film, and television. He is best known for his role as the New York City Firefighter/First Responder Sean Garrity in the series Rescue Me. He made his debut on the HBO series Six Feet Under, playing a love interest for David.
81 – Michael Paulson
Michael Paulson is an American journalist. From 2000 to 2010 he covered religion for The Boston Globe. Since 2010, he has worked at the New York Times, where he initially continued his religion coverage.
80 – Sue Frost and Randy Adams
Randy Adams is a Tony-award winning Producer and founding partner of Junkyard Dog Productions, a theatrical producing company dedicated to the development and production of new musical theatre.
79 – Bartlett Sher
Bartlett Sher is an American theatre director. He has been nominated for nine Tony Awards, winning a Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical as well as a Drama Desk Award for his direction of the 2008 Broadway revival of South Pacific.
78 – Peter Lawrence
Peter Lawrence is a production stage manager. He won a Tony Award in 2013 for Excellence in Theatre, as there is no Tony category for stage managers. In 1977, Lawrence got his first stage managing job on Broadway, in Judith Ross’s An Almost Perfect Person.
77 – Stephen Byrd
Stephen Byrd has pursued his interest in producing high quality entertainment vehicles for many years. As President/ CEO of the American Cinema Group, Inc., he has raised capital for, and invested in several TV & Film projects. He formed Front Row Productions, Inc.
76 – Paul Libin
Paul Libin is currently the Executive Vice President of Jujamcyn Theaters. In his 60 years of working in the theater, he had been a producer, theater owner, actor, box office treasurer, chairman of the Broadway League, labor negotiator, and stage manager.
75 – André Bishop
André Bishop has been the artistic director of Lincoln Center Theater since January 1992. He has developed and produced new plays and musicals by many of America's leading playwrights, composers and lyricists.
74 – Lonny Price
Lonny Price is a director, actor, and writer, primarily in theatre. He is perhaps best known for his creation of the role of Charley Kringas in the Broadway musical Merrily We Roll Along and for his New York directing work including Sunset Boulevard, Sweeney Todd, Company, and Sondheim!
73 – Ben Stanton
Ben Stanton is a lighting designer for theater, concerts, dance, installations, and events. He is a three-time Tony Award nominee as well as an Obie, Lortel, IRNE, and Ovation Award winner.
72 – Phil Birsh
Philip S. Birsh is the President of Playbill, a monthly U.S. magazine for theatregoers. There is a subscription issue available for home delivery, but most copies of Playbill are printed for particular productions and distributed at the door as the show's program.
71 – John Doyle
John Doyle is a Scottish stage director of musicals and plays, as well as operas. He has served as artistic director at several regional theatres in the United Kingdom, where he has staged more than 200 professional productions during his career spanning over 40 years.
70 – Leigh Silverman
Leigh Silverman is a director for the stage, both Off-Broadway and on Broadway. She was nominated for the 2014 Tony Award, Best Direction of a Musical for the musical Violet and the 2008 Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Director of a Play for the play From Up Here.
69 – Meredith Blair
Meredith Blair is a booking agent and the President of The Booking Group. She has booked tours for shows such as Something Rotten, Mamma Mia, The Addams Family, Anything Goes, Pippin, Motown, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, and Fun Home.
68 - Stephen Flaherty
Stephen Flaherty is a composer of musical theatre and film. He works most often in collaboration with the lyricist/book writer Lynn Ahrens.
67 - Bruce Lazarus
Bruce Lazarus is an entertainment attorney and theatrical producer notable for his work on Broadway and off-Broadway. He received a 2003 Tony Award for Best Play nomination for the Broadway production of Say Goodnight Gracie by Rupert Holmes and won the 2004 National Broadway Theatre Award for the national tour.
66 - Adrian Bryan-Brown
Adrian Bryan-Brown is a press agent and theatrical promoter. He has been involved with Broadway theatre and was called "one of the top press agents on Broadway" by the Association of Theatrical Press Agents & Managers.
65 - Robert Lopez
Robert Lopez is an American songwriter of musicals, best known for co-creating The Book of Mormon and Avenue Q, and for composing the songs featured in the 3D Disney computer animated film Frozen, with his wife Kristen Anderson-Lopez.
64 - Robyn Goodman
Robyn Goodman is a producer and actress, known for The Rehearsal (1974), One Life to Live (1968) and Smash (2012). She won Tony Awards for Best Musical as producer of Avenue Q and In the Heights. Her other Broadway productions include Metamorphoses and West Side Story.
63 - Christopher Gattelli
Christopher Gattelli is a choreographer, performer and theatre director. His work as choreographer for Broadway includes Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me, High Fidelity, The Ritz, Sunday in the Park with George, South Pacific, 13, Newsies, and the 2015 revival of The King and I.
62 - Benj Pasek and Justin Paul
Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, known together as Pasek and Paul, are an American songwriting duo and composing team for musical theater, films, and television. Their works include A Christmas Story, Dogfight, Edges, and James and the Giant Peach.
61 - Kate Shindle
Kate Shindle, Miss America 1998 and Miss Illinois 1997, is an actress, singer, and dancer. She is the author of the 2014 memoir Being Miss America: Behind the Rhinestone Curtain, published by the University of Texas Press.
60 - Tino Gagliardi
Tino Gagliardi is a musician and instrumentalist. He has played the trumpet for Broadway shows such as Jesus Christ Superstar, Oklahoma!, The Boy From Oz, and All Shook Up.
59 - Michael Starobin
Michael Starobin is an orchestrator, composer, arranger, and musical director, primarily for the stage, film and television. He won Tony Awards for the orchestrations of Assassins (2004) and Next to Normal (2009 with Tom Kitt).
58 - Jeanine Tesori
Jeanine Tesori is a composer and musical arranger. She is the most prolific and honored female theatrical composer in history, with five Broadway musicals and five Tony Award nominations.
57 - Jeff Chelesvig
Jeff Chelesvig is one of the premier and most powerful independent Broadway Presenters in the country (a Broadway Presenter, for those who might not be familiar with that term, is someone who books National Tours of Broadway shows).
56 - Ken Billington
Ken Billington is a lighting designer. He has 96 Broadway productions to his credit including Copperfield, Checking Out, Moon Over Buffalo, Grind, Hello Dolly!, Meet Me in St. Louis, On the Twentieth Century, Side by Side by Sondheim, Lettice and Lovage, Tru, The Scottsboro Boys, and Sweeney Todd.
55 - James Lapine
James Lapine is an American stage director, playwright, screenwriter, and librettist. He has won the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical three times, for Into the Woods, Falsettos, and Passion. He has frequently collaborated with Stephen Sondheim and William Finn.
54 - Diane Paulus
Diane Paulus is the Terrie and Bradley Bloom Artistic Director of the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University, and was selected for the 2014 TIME 100, TIME Magazine’s annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world.
53 - Des McAnuff
Des McAnuff is the American-Canadian former artistic director of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival and director of such Broadway musical theatre productions as Big River, The Who's Tommy and Jersey Boys.
52 - Lynn Ahrens
Lynn Ahrens is an American writer and lyricist for musical theatre, television and film. She has collaborated with Stephen Flaherty for many years. She won the Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, and Outer Critics Circle Award for the Broadway musical Ragtime.
51 - Stephen Schwartz
Stephen Schwartz is an American musical theatre lyricist and composer. In a career spanning over four decades, Schwartz has written such hit musicals as Godspell (1971), Pippin (1972), and Wicked (2003).
50 - Joe Mantello
Joe Mantello is an actor and director best known for his work on Broadway productions of Wicked, Take Me Out and Assassins, as well as earlier in his career being one of the original Broadway cast of Angels in America.
49 - Drew Cohen
Drew Cohen is a lawyer that works in theatrical licensing who in the President of Music Theatre International, having previously worked as a lawyer with the firm Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld; and as the General Manager of GlassNote Records.
48 - Daryl Roth
Daryl Roth is an American ten time Tony Award-winning producer who has produced over 90 productions on and off Broadway.
47 - Gregg Barnes
Gregg Barnes is a costume designer for stage and film. Barnes is a two-time winner of the Tony Award for Best Costume Design for his work on the Broadway productions of The Drowsy Chaperone (2006) and Follies (2011).
46 - Susan Stroman
Susan Stroman is a theatre director, choreographer, film director and performer. Her notable theater productions include The Producers, Crazy for You, Contact, and The Scottsboro Boys. She is a five-time Tony Award winner, four for Best Choreography and one as Best Director of a Musical for The Producers.
45 - Ted Chapin
Ted Chapin was chosen by the Rodgers and Hammerstein families to run their office. He expanded it into the Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization, which is responsible for management of the copyrights created by Richard Rodgers and/or Oscar Hammerstein II.
44 - David Henry Hwang
David Henry Hwang is an American playwright, librettist, screenwriter, and theater professor at Columbia University in New York City. His best-known play was M. Butterfly, which premiered on Broadway in 1988.
43 - John Caird
John Caird is an English stage director and writer of plays, musicals and operas. He is an honorary associate director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, a regular director with the Royal National Theatre of Great Britain and the Principal Guest Director of the Royal Dramatic Theatre, Stockholm (Dramaten).
42 - Casey Nicholaw
Casey Nicholaw is an American theatre director, choreographer and performer. He has been nominated for Tony Awards for directing and choreographing The Drowsy Chaperone (2006), The Book of Mormon (2011), Something Rotten!
41 - Robert Greenblatt
Robert Greenblatt is an American television executive, former Chairman of NBC Entertainment and current Chairman of WarnerMedia Entertainment. He began his television career at the Fox Broadcasting Company, where he ran prime-time programming and developed such shows as the original Beverly Hills, 90210 and Melrose Place, The X-Files, and Party of Five.
40 - David J. Kurs
David J. Kurs is the producer and artistic director of Deaf West Theatre. Their 2015 production of Spring Awakening, an intermodal rock-musical adaptation of a controversial late-19th-century German play about growing up in a sexually repressive culture, had an extended run, and is headed for Broadway.
39 - Spencer Liff
Spencer Liff is a choreographer, dancer, and performer. He has earned two Emmy Nominations for Outstanding Choreography for his work on the hit FOX TV series “So You Think You Can Dance”, where he has been a resident choreographer.
38 - Duncan Sheik
Duncan Sheik is an American singer-songwriter and composer. He is known for his 1996 debut single "Barely Breathing", which earned him a Grammy Award nomination for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance.
37 - Steven Sater
Steven Sater is an American poet, playwright, lyricist, television writer and screenwriter. Him and Duncan Sheik worked together on Spring Awakening, a musical interpretation of German playwright Frank Wedekind's play of the same name.
36 – Michael Arden
Michael Arden is an actor, musician and stage director. He made his Broadway debut as Tom Sawyer in the 2003 Roundabout and Deaf West revival of Big River. He played the title character in Pippin for the World AIDS Day Broadway benefit concert in November 2004.
35 – Ralph Sevush
Ralph Sevush is the Executive Director of Business & Legal Affairs at the Dramatists Guild. You don’t know about the Dramatists Guild? Well, you’re about to, because in this podcast, Ralph is not only going to tell you how it started, but why it started, and why it ain’t never going away.
34 – John Rando
John Rando is a stage director who won the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical for Urinetown the Musical in 2002. He received his 2nd nomination in the same category in 2015 for the 2014 Broadway revival of On the Town.
33 - Theresa Rebeck
Theresa Rebeck is an American playwright, television writer, and novelist. Her work has appeared on the Broadway and Off-Broadway stage, in film, and on television. Among her awards are the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Award.
32 – Kristin Caskey
Kristin Caskey is a producer. Along with Hal Luftig and Mike Isaacson, she received a Tony Award for her producing work on Urinetown. She has also produced One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Legally Blonde, Bring It On: The Musical, and Fun Home.
31 – Al Nocciolino
Albert Nocciolino serves as President & CEO of NAC Entertainment, Ltd., a diversified entertainment and theatrical company based in Binghamton, NY specializing in the presentation of national touring Broadway shows in New York State (Buffalo, Rochester, Binghamton, Elmira, Utica, and Albany) and the State of Pennsylvania (Scranton and Erie).
30 – Kurt Deutsch
Kurt Deutsch is an actor, director, record producer, and film producer. He is the Senior Vice President for Theatrical & Catalog Development for Warner/Chappell Music, and President of Sh-K-Boom Records, a division of Warner Arts Music.
29 - John Raymond Barker
John Raymond Barker is an actor, singer, writer, and voice over artist living in NYC where he recently made his network television debut guest starring on Law & Order: SVU.
28 - Victoria Bailey
Victoria Bailey is executive director of Theatre Development Fund (TDF), the only not-for profit organization dedicated to serving the entire spectrum of the performing arts with programs that touch the lives of millions of New Yorkers and visitors each year.
27 - Stuart Oken
Stuart Oken is a producer. He leads Elephany Eye Theatrical, whose projects have included An American in Paris, The Addams Family, Saved and Venice. As Executive VP at Disney, Theatrical, he produced The Lion King, Aida and Der Glockner Von Notre Dame.
26 - Ben Brantley
Ben Brantley, Chief Drama Critic of the New York Times, has been a staff critic since 1996, filing reviews regularly from London as well as New York. Subjects of his profiles include the underground Belarus Free Theater in Minsk, and Barbra Streisand in Malibu.
25 - Jack Tantleff
Jack Tantleff is the head of the theatrical literary department at the powerhouse agency Paradigm. Some clients include Glenn Slater, David Yazbek, Oscar winner Alfred Yuri, Stephen King and Sara Bareilles.
24 - John Breglio
John Breglio, entertainment lawyer and Broadway producer, has concentrated on representing companies and individuals involved in all aspects of the entertainment industry, including the legitimate theatre, motion picture, publishing and music businesses, and intellectual property matters.
23 - Steve Schnepp
Steve Schnepp is president of Broadway Booking Office NYC, a theatrical tour booking, marketing and press agency representing Broadway, London-based shows and family productions. He has more than 40 years of experience in the entertainment industry and has collaborated on more than 75 productions.
22 - Kevin McCollum
Kevin McCollum is an American theatrical booking executive and producer of musical theater and plays, many on Broadway. During a producing career spanning over twenty-five years, he has received three Tony Awards for Best Musical for In the Heights, Avenue Q, and Rent.
21 - Scott Schwartz
Scott Schwartz is an internationally known artist whose work has been seen on and off Broadway, across the United States, in Great Britain, Europe and Asia. Currently, his production of Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame is running in both Japan and Germany.
20 - James Claffey
James Claffey is the President of Local One, the powerful Stagehands’ union. He worked throughout the Local One jurisdiction since 1982 in venues including Radio City Music Hall, the City Center 55th Street Dance Theatre, Madison Square Garden, CBS-TV, ABCTV and various Broadway theatres.
19 - Tim Rice
Sir Timothy Rice is an English lyricist and author. He is best known for his collaborations with Andrew Lloyd Webber, with whom he wrote, among other shows, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar, and Evita; with Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson of ABBA, with whom he wrote Chess; and with Disney on Aladdin, The Lion King, the stage adaptation of Beauty and the Beast, and the original Broadway musical Aida.
18 - Charles Busch
Charles Busch is an American actor, screenwriter, playwright and female impersonator, known for his appearances on stage in his own camp style plays and in film and television.
17 - Liz Furze
Elizabeth Furze has almost 20 years experience in destination and theatrical advertising, with extensive knowledge of both the London and New York markets. In London, between 2000 and 2008, she led the integrated marketing campaigns for more than 50 plays, musicals, and theatrical venues.
16 - Bernie Telsey
Bernard Telsey is a casting director and co-founder of MCC Theater. In the 1980s, he began working for Simon & Kumin Casting as an assistant, then a casting director at Risa Bramon & Billy Hopkins Casting.
15 - Dan Wasser
Dan Wasser has a combination of extensive entertainment law experience and a background in corporate and securities law that enables him to work with clients on a broad range of business and legal issues.
14 - David Rockwell
David Rockwell is an American architect and designer. He is the founder and president of Rockwell Group, a 250-person award-winning, cross-disciplinary architecture and design practice based in New York City with a satellite office in Madrid.
13 - Tom Kirdahy
Tom Kirdahy is a Tony and Olivier Award-winning theatre producer on Broadway and in the West End as well as a lawyer.
12 - Wendy Orshan
Wendy Orshan of 101 Productions has General Managed a truckload of shows from Spamalot to The Elephant Man to The Addams Family to The Bridges of Madison County and so many more. Tune in to listen to Wendy talk about: Her definition of the Broadway show hierarchy or wheel-archy, and where a General Manager fits.
11 - Richard LaGravenese
Richard LaGravenese is an Academy Award nominated screenwriter and film director, best known as the writer of The Fisher King. There have been a ton of Broadway musical to movie adaptations over the years . . . from Chicago to Hairspray to Rent to Into the Woods.
10 - Damian Bazadona
Damian Bazadona is the founder of Situation Interactive, a digital marketing agency spotlighting see-it-to-believe-it experiences for the top brands in theater, arts, travel, tourism, film, television and sports.
9 - Jordan Roth
Jordan Roth is an American theater producer. He is the president and majority owner of Jujamcyn Theaters in New York City. Roth oversees five Broadway theatres including the St. James, Al Hirschfeld, August Wilson, Eugene O'Neill, and the Walter Kerr.
8 - Hal Luftig
Hal Luftig started his career Off-Broadway working in some of New York's most storied and venerable theaters. There, he created fertile ground for up-and-coming talents like Eric Bogosian and Charles Busch, in shows like Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll and The Lady in Question.
7 - Todd Haimes
Todd Haimes (Artistic Director/CEO) joined Roundabout as the Executive Director at the age of 26. From 1983 to 1990, he served in that position, overseeing the company's finances, marketing and fundraising. Mr.
6 - Michael Riedel
Michael Riedel is an American theatre critic, broadcaster, and columnist. He is the co-host of "Len Berman and Michael Riedel in the Morning" on 710 WOR in New York City, weekdays 6-10am. Riedel has been a controversial and influential Broadway columnist of the New York Post, for over 20 years.
5 - Drew Hodges
Drew Hodges is a designer, strategist and founder of New York's SpotCo, a creative agency known for the iconic branding of Broadway shows Rent, Chicago, The Book of Mormon, Hamilton, and many more. If you asked me what the one skill I think a modern day Producer should have, it’s marketing .
4 - Terrence McNally
Terrence McNally is an American playwright, librettist, and screenwriter. He has received the Tony Award for Best Play for Love! Valour! Compassion! and Master Class, as well as the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical for Kiss of the Spider Woman and Ragtime.
3 - Nina Lannan
Nina Lannan, Broadway General Manager, Executive Producer and the co-founder of Bespoke Theatricals and has a line of management credits longer than the lines at women’s restroom at intermission that include all sorts of shows from Cats to Mamma Mia!
2 - Charlotte St. Martin
Charlotte St. Martin, the President of The Broadway League, the trade organization that oversees all of Broadway. If you’re not sure exactly what The Broadway League does, and who makes up its 800 or so members, then, well, you really need to listen to this podcast because Charlotte will explain the whole thing to you.
1 - Rick Miramontez
Rick Miramontez began his career, direct from college, as the press director of the Center Theatre Group / Ahmanson Theatre where he organized the campaigns for more than 25 major productions, including the RSC’s The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby and world premieres of Neil Simon’s Brighton Beach Memoirs and Biloxi Blues, and James Kirkwood’s infamous Legends!
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