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256 - Places, Please Series: Part 6 with Ken Davenport from 2021-11-04T04:01
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 y...
Listen255 - Places, Please Series: Part 5 with Ryan Scott Oliver and Tony Howell from 2021-11-02T04:01
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 y...
Listen254 - Places, Please Series: Part 4 with Alicia Albright and Rodrick Covington from 2021-10-28T04:01
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 y...
Listen253 - Places, Please Series: Part 3 with Stephanie Klemons and Amber Iman from 2021-10-26T04:01
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 y...
Listen251 - Places, Please Series: Part 1 with Ken Davenport and Joe Rosko from 2021-10-19T04:01
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 y...
Listen251 - Places, Please Series: Part 1 with Ken Davenport and Joe Rosko from 2021-10-19T04:01
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 y...
Listen250 - An Important Announcement from 2021-09-13T04:10
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!
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249 - Answering 10 FAQs on Broadway Investing from 2021-09-06T04:10
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 i...
248 - Broadway's Advantage To Its Comeback from 2021-08-30T04:10
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 wait...
247 - My Revised Look At What Broadway’s Recovery Will Look Like from 2021-08-23T04:10
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, da...
246 - An Off Broadway Model On Broadway from 2021-08-16T04:10
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 theater...
Listen245 - The Best Advice I Received At The Start of the Broadway Shutdown from 2021-08-09T04:10
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 imp...
244 - What TheatreMakers Can Learn From Simone Biles from 2021-08-02T04:10
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...
Listen243 - "As Seen On TV" Commercials from 2021-07-26T04:10
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.
242 - What Movie Companies Did That Streaming Companies Should Do from 2021-07-19T04:10
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 lic...
Listen241 - The Hardest Part of Creating a New Show from 2021-07-12T04:11
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.
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240 - How NOT to Fundraise For Your Project from 2021-07-05T04:10
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 ma...
239 - "What do I do now as a theater graduate?" from 2021-06-28T04:10
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 “wha...
238 - What About Broadway? from 2021-06-21T04:10
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 betwe...
237 - New Destination Only For TheaterMakers from 2021-06-14T04:10
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, alway...
236 - 10 Audition Tips For Actors from 2021-06-07T04:15
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 peop...
Listen235 - 3 Reasons Why Crowdfunding Did NOT Take Off on Broadway from 2021-05-31T04:15
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...
234 - The Answer I Hope To Hear From Ticketbuyers from 2021-05-24T04:05
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 feel...
Listen233 - Eight Shows a Week on Broadway from 2021-05-17T04:05
Today, I explore what it would mean if Broadway was allowed to run less than 8 shows a week.
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"8 Shows a What?": https://www.theproducersperspectiv...
232 - Broadway vs. Hollywood: Pitching Your Show from 2021-05-10T04:10
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.
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231 - Two Things You Can Do To Get Theater Back Faster from 2021-05-03T04:15
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.
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My ...
230 - "Why We Should Not Use The Term 'Jukebox Musicals' Anymore" from 2021-04-26T04:10
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...
229 - "Revivals: An Endangered Species?" from 2021-04-19T04:10
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 success...
Listen228 - "How Bumble Helps Me Make Theater" from 2021-04-12T04:10
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 an...
227 - "5 Things I Learned About Social" from 2021-04-05T04:00
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 top...
226 - 3 Reasons Social Distancing Doesn't Work For Theater from 2021-03-29T04:00
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 podcas...
225 - New Actors Equity Association Protocols from 2021-03-22T04:00
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 ...
224 - "5 Phases of Broadway's Return" from 2021-03-15T04:00
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 ...
Live From The Pandemic #8: JENN COLELLA from 2020-08-24T04:30
Welcome to the miniseries, The Producer's Perspective LIVE! From The Pandemic.
Inspired by my podcast and check-ins with friends, I started The Producer’s Perspective LIVE! I started going live...
Live From The Pandemic #7: KENNY LEON from 2020-08-17T04:05
Welcome to the miniseries, The Producer's Perspective LIVE! From The Pandemic.
Inspired by my podcast and check-ins with friends, I started The Producer’s Perspective LIVE! I started going live...
Live From The Pandemic #6: JASON ALEXANDER from 2020-08-10T04:10
Welcome to the miniseries, The Producer's Perspective LIVE! From The Pandemic.
Inspired by my podcast and check-ins with friends, I started The Producer’s Perspective LIVE! I started going live...
Live From The Pandemic #5: JORDAN FISHER from 2020-08-03T04:30
Welcome to the miniseries, The Producer's Perspective LIVE! From The Pandemic.
Inspired by my podcast and check-ins with friends, I started The Producer’s Perspective LIVE! I started going live...
Live From The Pandemic #4: SIERRA BOGGESS from 2020-07-27T04:30
Welcome to the miniseries, The Producer's Perspective LIVE! From The Pandemic.
Inspired by my podcast and check-ins with friends, I started The Producer’s Perspective LIVE! I started going live...
Live From The Pandemic #3: ALEX BRIGHTMAN from 2020-07-20T04:30
Welcome to the miniseries, The Producer's Perspective LIVE! From The Pandemic.
Inspired by my podcast and check-ins with friends, I started The Producer’s Perspective LIVE! I started going live...
Live From The Pandemic #2: STEPHEN SCHWARTZ from 2020-07-13T05:00
Welcome to the miniseries, The Producer's Perspective LIVE! From The Pandemic.
Inspired by my podcast and check-ins with friends, I started The Producer’s Perspective LIVE! I started going live...
Live From The Pandemic #1: KEN DAVENPORT from 2020-07-06T04:03
Welcome to the miniseries, The Producer's Perspective LIVE! From The Pandemic. Inspired by my podcast and check-ins with friends, I started The Producer’s Perspective LIVE! I started going live eve...
ListenLive From The Pandemic #1: KEN DAVENPORT from 2020-07-06T04:03
Welcome to the miniseries, The Producer's Perspective LIVE! From The Pandemic. Inspired by my podcast and check-ins with friends, I started The Producer’s Perspective LIVE! I started going live eve...
Listen212 - William Ivey Long from 2020-04-06T04:06
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, GR...
Listen211 - Diana DiMenna from 2020-03-30T04:05
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 Wome...
Listen211 - Diana DiMenna from 2020-03-30T04:05
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 Wome...
Listen210 - Adam Feldman from 2020-03-23T04:05
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. ...
Listen210 - Adam Feldman from 2020-03-23T04:05
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. ...
Listen208 - Maddie Corman from 2020-03-09T04:05
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. President,” “All American Girl” and...
Listen207 - Vivek Tiwary from 2020-03-02T05:05
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 be...
Listen206 - Thomas Schumacher from 2020-02-24T05:05
Thomas Schumacher serves as President & Producer of Disney Theatrical Productions, overseeing the development, creation and execution of Disney’s legitimate stage entertainment worldwide. The divis...
Listen205 - 2019 Season Finale from 2019-12-16T05:05
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!
Thank you to Ju...
204 - Alan Cumming from 2019-12-02T14:56
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. His London stage appe...
Listen203 - Glen Kelly from 2019-11-25T03:00
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 Fr...
Listen202 - Ken Cerniglia from 2019-11-18T03:00
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 ...
Listen200 - Mara Isaacs from 2019-11-04T02:00
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 loca...
Listen199 - Ali Stroker from 2019-10-28T03:00
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! She made history as the first ...
Listen198 - Anthony Veneziale from 2019-10-21T02:00
Anthony Veneziale (Two-Touch) is the conceiver and co-creator Freestyle Love Supreme and FLS Academy. Founding member of American Immigrants (San Francisco). He has used improv techniques to create...
Listen197 - Adam Gwon from 2019-10-07T01:00
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 musi...
196 - Susan Blackwell from 2019-09-30T02:00
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, ...
Listen195 - Stephanie Lee from 2019-09-22T22:00
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 h...
Listen194 - Mark Sendroff from 2019-09-15T22:00
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’...
Listen193 - Julie Halston from 2019-09-09T03:00
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, b...
Listen192 - Chad Beguelin from 2019-06-03T03:00
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 l...
Listen191 - Warren Carlyle from 2019-05-27T03:00
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 Outstan...
Listen190 - Paul Gordon from 2019-05-20T03:00
Paul Gordon is a composer and lyricist nominated for a 2001 Tony Award for the music and lyrics to the musical Jane Eyre. He is also the recipient of the 2009 Ovation Award for his music and lyrics...
Listen189 - Robert Horn from 2019-05-13T03:00
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 V...
Listen188 - Josh Bergasse from 2019-05-06T03:00
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 ...
Listen187 - Michael Mayer from 2019-04-29T03:00
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 ...
Listen186 - Dominique Morisseau from 2019-04-22T03:00
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...
Listen185 - Julia Jordan from 2019-04-14T04:00
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, ...
Listen184 - Jason Moore from 2019-04-08T04:00
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 nomin...
Listen184 - Meryl Streep from 2019-04-01T15:00
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. Amon...
Listen183 - Jennifer Tepper from 2019-03-25T03:00
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...
Listen182 - Jason Alexander from 2019-03-18T03:00
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 co...
Listen181 - Hillary Blanken from 2019-03-11T04:00
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 l...
Listen180 - Stephen Oremus from 2019-03-04T04:00
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, musica...
Listen179 - Joan Marcus from 2019-02-25T04:00
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. ...
Listen178 - Sean Cercone from 2019-02-18T04:00
Sean Cercone served as Chief Business Officer and Senior Vice President of Professional and International Licensing for Theatrical Rights Worldwide (TRW). Since 2011, Cercone helped build TRW throu...
Listen177 - Tom Viertel from 2019-02-11T04:00
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, Yo...
Listen176 - Maury Yeston from 2019-02-04T05:00
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,...
Listen175 - Ryan Scott Oliver from 2019-01-28T04:00
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 f...
Listen174 – Alfred Uhry from 2019-01-21T04:00
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. Other works include Here's W...
Listen173 - David Chase from 2019-01-14T04:00
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 Sing...
Listen172 - Sierra Boggess from 2019-01-07T04:00
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 t...
Listen171 - Paula Wagner from 2018-12-17T01:00
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 Othe...
Listen170 - Max Grossman from 2018-12-09T05:00
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,...
Listen169 - Rachel Chavkin from 2018-12-02T23:00
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 a...
Listen168 - Bobby Longbottom from 2018-11-25T21:00
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...
Listen167 - Jack Viertel from 2018-11-18T21:00
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 ha...
Listen166 - Kristen Blodgette from 2018-11-10T19:00
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. Other works include...
Listen165 - Kirsten Childs from 2018-10-28T04:00
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 ...
Listen164 - Michael Greif from 2018-10-21T04:00
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. He was an Artistic A...
Listen164 - Michael Greif from 2018-10-21T04:00
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. He was an Artistic A...
Listen163 - Daniel Goldfarb from 2018-10-14T04:00
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 Retribut...
Listen162 - Michael John LaChiusa from 2018-10-07T04:00
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 ...
Listen161 - Richard Maltby from 2018-09-30T04:00
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' a...
Listen160 - Joe Iconis from 2018-09-23T04:00
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 Aw...
Listen159 - David Auburn from 2018-09-16T04:00
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 a...
Listen158 - John Weidman from 2018-09-09T04:00
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...
Listen157 - Rebecca Taichman from 2018-06-03T04:00
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 s...
Listen156 - David Lindsay-Abaire from 2018-05-20T04:00
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. His fir...
Listen155 - Nelle Nugent from 2018-05-06T04:00
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; awar...
Listen154 - Lisa Kron from 2018-04-22T04:00
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 fo...
Listen153 - Warren Leight from 2018-04-08T04:00
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 ...
Listen153 - Warren Leight from 2018-04-08T04:00
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...
Listen153 - Warren Leight from 2018-04-08T04:00
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...
Listen151 - Michael Korie from 2018-03-25T06:00
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. Hi...
Listen150 - Danny Burstein from 2018-03-11T06:00
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 ...
Listen149 - Charles LaPointe from 2018-02-25T06:00
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,...
Listen148 - Sergio Trujillo from 2018-02-11T06:00
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...
Listen147 - Walter Bobbie from 2018-01-28T06:00
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 N...
Listen146 - Sheryl Kaller from 2018-01-21T06:00
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. S...
Listen145 - Jonathan Lomma from 2018-01-14T06:00
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 Lau...
Listen144 - Pam MacKinnon from 2018-01-07T06:00
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, Bes...
Listen143 - Catherine Zuber from 2017-12-17T06:00
Catherine Zuber is a costume designer for the Broadway theater and opera, among other venues. She is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama, and has been referred to as "one of theater's most sough...
Listen142 - Jerry Zaks from 2017-12-10T06:00
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 De...
Listen141 - Doug Hughes from 2017-12-03T06:00
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 1...
Listen140 - Mark Hoebee from 2017-11-26T06:00
Mark Hoebee is a producing artistic director at the Paper Mill Playhouse and has been since 2000. Under his leadership, Paper Mill was presented with the Regional Theatre Tony Award in 2016 and in ...
Listen139 - Mike Rafael from 2017-11-19T06:00
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 theat...
Listen138 - Kwame Kwei-Armah from 2017-11-12T06:00
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-winn...
Listen137 - Trip Cullman from 2017-11-05T05:00
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. Other credits include Swimming in t...
Listen136 - Carl Pasbjerg from 2017-10-29T05:00
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, Laure...
Listen135 - Kyle Jarrow from 2017-10-22T06:00
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...
Listen134 - Pat Cook from 2017-10-15T06:00
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, ap...
Listen133 - Jonathan Rand from 2017-10-08T06:00
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 ...
Listen132 - David Korins from 2017-10-01T06:00
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, ...
Listen131 - Kelly Leonard from 2017-09-24T06:00
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. He has overseen productions with...
Listen130 - Michael Passaro from 2017-09-17T06:00
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 ...
Listen129 - Tom Kitt from 2017-09-10T06:00
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 Aw...
Listen128 - Chris Jones from 2017-09-03T06:00
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 c...
Listen127 – Chazz Palminteri from 2017-08-27T06:00
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 ...
Listen125 - David Javerbaum from 2017-08-13T06:00
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. He runs the popular Twitter account @TheTweetOf...
Listen124 - Scott Elliott from 2017-08-06T06:00
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...
Listen123 - Irene Sankoff and David Hein from 2017-07-30T06:00
Irene Sankoff and David Hein are a Canadian librettist and composer-lyricist couple, best known for co-writing the Broadway musical Come From Away. After spending several years studying and working...
Listen122 - Sara Fitzpatrick from 2017-07-23T06:00
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 ...
Listen121 - Don Scardino from 2017-07-16T06:00
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-T...
Listen120 - Lia Vollack from 2017-07-09T06:00
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 Chr...
Listen119 - Robert Fried from 2017-07-02T06:00
Robert Fried is an accountant who provides service to hundreds of theatrical productions, both in the United States and abroad. He currently represents some of the most prominent and successful Bro...
Listen118 - Nancy Gibbs from 2017-06-26T06:00
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 fo...
Listen117 - Eva Price from 2017-06-04T06:00
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 Di...
Listen116 - Rob Ashford from 2017-04-30T06:00
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...
Listen115 - Scott Ellis from 2017-04-02T06:00
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...
Listen114 - Sean Flahaven from 2017-03-05T06:00
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 Lloy...
Listen113 - Kathleen Marshall from 2017-02-26T06:00
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. Th...
Listen112 - Matt Sklar from 2017-02-19T06:00
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 produ...
Listen111 - Derek McLane from 2017-02-12T06:00
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-Br...
Listen110 - Neil Pepe from 2017-02-05T06:00
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. Off-Broadway and Regional credits include: ...
Listen109 - Stacey Mindich from 2017-01-30T06:00
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 c...
Listen108 - Glenn Slater from 2017-01-22T06:00
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 ...
Listen107 – Beowulf Boritt from 2017-01-15T06:00
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 Fiv...
Listen106 – Natasha Katz from 2017-01-09T06:00
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 A...
Listen105 – The Rego Brothers from 2017-01-01T06:00
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 com...
Listen104 – Jerry Mitchell from 2016-12-26T06:00
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 ...
Listen103 – Heather Hitchens from 2016-12-18T06:00
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 o...
Listen102 – Howard Sherman from 2016-12-11T06:00
Howard Sherman is an arts administrator, advocate and writer.He was the executive director of the American Theatre Wing from 2003 to 2011. In addition, he was instrumental in the development of ATW...
Listen101 – Kenny Leon from 2016-12-04T06:00
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...
Listen100 – David Stone from 2016-11-27T06:00
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, bef...
Listen99 – Chris Herzberger from 2016-11-20T06:00
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,...
Listen98 – Alex Timbers from 2016-11-13T06:00
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 Lucill...
Listen97 – Jack O’Brien from 2016-11-06T05:00
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 T...
Listen96 – Andrew Lippa from 2016-10-30T05:00
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 Good...
Listen95 – Randy Weiner from 2016-10-23T06:00
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...
Listen94 – Joe DiPietro from 2016-10-16T06:00
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 ...
Listen93 – Bess Wohl from 2016-10-09T06:00
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. He...
Listen92 – Lynne Meadow from 2016-10-02T06:00
Lynne Meadow is a theatre producer, director and a teacher. She has been the artistic director of the Manhattan Theatre Club since 1972. In that position she has directed and produced more than 450...
Listen91 – Rick Elice from 2016-09-25T06:00
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 nominati...
Listen90 – Chris Stasiuk from 2016-09-18T06:00
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. ...
Listen89 – Tara Rubin from 2016-09-11T06:00
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 Mis...
Listen88 – Charles Isherwood from 2016-09-04T06:00
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 ...
Listen87 – Richard Frankel from 2016-08-28T06:00
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 Vi...
Listen86 – Manny Azenberg from 2016-08-21T06:00
Manny Azenberg is a theatre producer and general manager whose professional relationship with playwright Neil Simon spans thirty-three years. He first met Neil Simon in 1963 and their professional ...
Listen85 – Craig Zadan and Neil Meron from 2016-08-14T06:00
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. <...
Listen84 – Barry Weissler from 2016-08-07T06:00
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. The two then started a tou...
Listen83 – Brian Mahoney from 2016-07-31T06:00
Brian Mahoney has been at the Shubert Organization for more than 35 years. His current role is management of ticket pricing, policies and the operation of the 17 Shubert Organization Broadway box...
Listen82 – Steven Pasquale from 2016-07-25T06:00
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...
Listen81 – Michael Paulson from 2016-07-17T06:00
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 cov...
Listen80 – Sue Frost and Randy Adams from 2016-07-10T06:00
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. The...
Listen79 – Bartlett Sher from 2016-07-04T06:00
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 th...
Listen78 – Peter Lawrence from 2016-06-26T06:00
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 ...
Listen77 – Stephen Byrd from 2016-06-19T06:00
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 ...
Listen76 – Paul Libin from 2016-06-14T06:00
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...
Listen75 – André Bishop from 2016-06-05T06:00
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 an...
Listen74 – Lonny Price from 2016-05-29T06:00
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 hi...
Listen73 – Ben Stanton from 2016-05-22T06:00
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. Recent ...
Listen72 – Phil Birsh from 2016-05-15T06:00
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 partic...
Listen71 – John Doyle from 2016-05-08T06:00
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 tha...
Listen70 – Leigh Silverman from 2016-05-04T06:00
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...
Listen69 – Meredith Blair from 2016-04-24T06:00
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 C...
Listen68 - Stephen Flaherty from 2016-04-18T06:00
Stephen Flaherty is a composer of musical theatre and film. He works most often in collaboration with the lyricist/book writer Lynn Ahrens. They are best known for writing the Broadway musicals Rag...
Listen67 - Bruce Lazarus from 2016-04-10T06:00
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 product...
Listen66 - Adrian Bryan-Brown from 2016-04-04T06:00
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 Pre...
Listen65 - Robert Lopez from 2016-03-27T06:00
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, ...
Listen64 - Robyn Goodman from 2016-03-21T05:00
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. H...
Listen63 - Christopher Gattelli from 2016-03-14T05:00
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 w...
Listen62 - Benj Pasek and Justin Paul from 2016-03-07T06:00
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, D...
Listen61 - Kate Shindle from 2016-02-28T06:00
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 U...
Listen60 - Tino Gagliardi from 2016-02-21T06:00
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. He has been the presiden...
Listen59 - Michael Starobin from 2016-02-15T06:00
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 t...
Listen58 - Jeanine Tesori from 2016-02-07T06:00
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. She won t...
Listen57 - Jeff Chelesvig from 2016-02-01T06:00
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...
Listen56 - Ken Billington from 2016-01-25T06:00
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 Twentie...
Listen55 - James Lapine from 2016-01-18T06:00
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. H...
Listen54 - Diane Paulus from 2016-01-11T06:00
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 ...
Listen53 - Des McAnuff from 2016-01-04T06:00
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 Jerse...
Listen52 - Lynn Ahrens from 2015-12-28T06:00
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 Out...
Listen51 - Stephen Schwartz from 2015-12-20T06:00
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 (...
Listen50 - Joe Mantello from 2015-12-14T06:00
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 ...
Listen49 - Drew Cohen from 2015-12-07T06:00
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;...
Listen48 - Daryl Roth from 2015-11-29T06:00
Daryl Roth is an American ten time Tony Award-winning producer who has produced over 90 productions on and off Broadway. She is the only producer of seven Pulitzer Prize-winning plays: Bruce Norris...
Listen47 - Gregg Barnes from 2015-11-22T06:00
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) ...
Listen46 - Susan Stroman from 2015-11-15T06:00
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 fiv...
Listen45 - Ted Chapin from 2015-11-09T06:00
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...
Listen44 - David Henry Hwang from 2015-11-01T05:00
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 Broadw...
Listen43 - John Caird from 2015-10-26T05:00
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 T...
Listen42 - Casey Nicholaw from 2015-10-18T06:00
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 (...
Listen41 - Robert Greenblatt from 2015-10-12T06:00
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...
Listen40 - David J. Kurs from 2015-10-04T06:00
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 Germa...
Listen39 - Spencer Liff from 2015-09-28T06:00
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 ...
Listen38 - Duncan Sheik from 2015-09-21T06:00
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....
Listen37 - Steven Sater from 2015-09-13T06:00
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 F...
Listen36 – Michael Arden from 2015-09-06T06:00
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 f...
Listen35 – Ralph Sevush from 2015-08-30T06:00
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...
34 – John Rando from 2015-08-23T06:00
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 Bro...
Listen33 - Theresa Rebeck from 2015-08-17T06:00
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...
Listen32 – Kristin Caskey from 2015-08-09T06:00
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, Thorough...
Listen31 – Al Nocciolino from 2015-08-03T06:00
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 touri...
Listen30 – Kurt Deutsch from 2015-07-26T06:00
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 Re...
Listen29 - John Raymond Barker from 2015-07-20T06:00
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. New York theatre credits...
Listen28 - Victoria Bailey from 2015-07-13T06:00
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 touc...
Listen27 - Stuart Oken from 2015-07-06T06:00
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 produc...
Listen26 - Ben Brantley from 2015-06-28T06:00
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 undergroun...
Listen25 - Jack Tantleff from 2015-06-21T06:00
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 B...
Listen24 - John Breglio from 2015-06-14T06:00
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 ...
Listen23 - Steve Schnepp from 2015-06-08T06:00
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 4...
Listen22 - Kevin McCollum from 2015-06-01T06:00
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 th...
Listen21 - Scott Schwartz from 2015-05-25T06:00
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 Th...
Listen20 - James Claffey from 2015-05-17T06:00
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 55...
Listen19 - Tim Rice from 2015-05-10T06:00
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 Dream...
Listen18 - Charles Busch from 2015-05-03T06:00
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. He wrote and starred...
Listen17 - Liz Furze from 2015-04-26T06:00
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...
Listen16 - Bernie Telsey from 2015-04-19T06:00
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 ...
Listen15 - Dan Wasser from 2015-04-12T06:00
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 ...
Listen14 - David Rockwell from 2015-04-05T06:00
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...
Listen13 - Tom Kirdahy from 2015-03-29T06:00
Tom Kirdahy is a Tony and Olivier Award-winning theatre producer on Broadway and in the West End as well as a lawyer. After almost 20 years of providing free legal services to people with HIV/AIDS,...
Listen12 - Wendy Orshan from 2015-03-22T05:00
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.
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11 - Richard LaGravenese from 2015-03-15T05:00
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 adaptation...
10 - Damian Bazadona from 2015-03-08T06:00
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, televis...
Listen9 - Jordan Roth from 2015-03-01T06:00
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 Hirschfel...
Listen8 - Hal Luftig from 2015-02-22T06:00
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 Charl...
Listen7 - Todd Haimes from 2015-02-15T06:00
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 fun...
Listen6 - Michael Riedel from 2015-02-08T06:00
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 ha...
Listen5 - Drew Hodges from 2015-02-01T06:00
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....
Listen4 - Terrence McNally from 2015-01-25T06:00
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 ...
Listen3 - Nina Lannan from 2015-01-18T06:00
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 th...
Listen2 - Charlotte St. Martin from 2015-01-11T06:00
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 u...