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jerome TIM JEROME — NMTN President/Founder
Mr. Jerome has had a long career performing on and off Broadway and on the big screen. He currently portrays Professor Porter (Jane's father) in Disney's Tarzan. Just prior to that he played one of the two theatre managers in Broadway's longest running musical, Phantom of the Opera. As an actor, Tim has concentrated on developing characters in new musicals. He appeared in the original Broadway casts of Grand Hotel, The Moony Shapiro Songbook, Arthur Miller's Creation of the World and Other Business, and The Rothschilds and was nominated for the Drama Desk and Tony Awards for his performance in Me and My Girl. He was featured in Baz Luhrmann's production of La Boheme in the roles of Alcindoro and Benoit. Also on Broadway, Tim performed leading roles in Beauty and the Beast, Cats, The Magic Show, Lost in Yonkers, and Man of La Mancha. He also participated in the pre-Broadway development of Ragtime, The Red Shoes, The Baker's Wife, Assassins, and a host of readings, workshops and showcase presentations of well-known and unknown works of contemporary theatre. Regionally, he has appeared at the North Shore Music Theatre (Beverly, MA), Goodspeed Musicals (Chester, CT), the George Street Playhouse (New Brunswick, NJ), Phoenix Theatre (Purchase, NY), The McCarter Theatre (Princeton, NJ) and was a member of the Arena Stage (Washington, D.C.) acting company originating roles in Tom Lehrer's Tomfoolery, Tintypes, A 1940s Radio Hour and David Hare's Plenty. Tim's film credits include: Streets of New York, Thirteen Days, (Tim Robbins') Cradle will Rock, (Woody Allen's) Husbands and Wives, Everyone Says I Love You, Celebrity and Deconstructing Harry, A Price Above Rubies, Compromising Positions, (Costa Gavras') Betrayed, Billy Bathgate and Spiderman 2. On television, Tim has had featured roles in Law and Order, Third Watch and others. He also has had a long career in radio and audio as an actor, director and producer: Tim starred in over a dozen episodes of Joe Frank's award-winning radio satire series. He produced the long-running WBAI-Pacifica drama series The Radio, and has appeared on SciFi.com's Seeing Ear Theatre presentations and in several audio dramas for WNYC's The Next Big Thing. He has won Earphone and Audie Awards for his books on tape. Tim is the Founding President of National Music Theater Network, Inc. In 1983, he designed its core programs. NMTN evaluates and promotes new musicals and is responsible for launching several successful programs featuring new works, notably The Songbook Series (monthly at the Donnell Library for 13 years); The New York Musical Theatre Festival (first presented in 2004 and winner of the 2004 Jujamcyn Award); and BroadwayUSA! (a program of regional festivals of new musicals). Tim has served on the boards of directors of two performing unions: Screen Actors Guild (9 years) and The American Guild of Musical Artists (as 1st Vice President). He lives in New York, and attended Cornell University, Ithaca College (BFA) and Manhattan School of Music (Master of Music). His hobbies are sailing and woodworking and he has a daughter attending SUNY New Paltz.

ISAAC ROBERT HURWITZ- Executive Director/Producer of NYMF, with a varied background as a producer, director, dramaturge, and musician, Isaac Robert Hurwitz has developed new work in venues throughout the United States. Before Founding the New York Musical Theatre Festival with Kris Stewart in 2004, Isaac headed the Ensemble Studio’s musical theatre development program. The Rusty Magee Music Project, which he helped establish. He returned to EST in 2005 to produce the world premier of Luminescence Dating, a new play by Carey Perloff. For three seasons, Isaac served as Music Associate for City Center’s acclaimed Encores! Series, assisting music director Rob Fisher for fifteen concert productions and overseeing restoration of A Connecticut Yankee, Bloomer Girl, Golden Boy and House of Flowers, among others. He was assistant director for the Encores! Production of Pardon My English in 2004 and currently serves as a member of the series’ advisory committee. Isaac received the Westin Award in Musical Theatre from Brown University, his alma mater, where he headed to producing organizations and developed several new musicals including Stephen Karam’s award-winning Emma. As a director, Isaac has worked with Trinity Reparatory Theatre’s New Play Festival, the Kennedy Center, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Chashama, HERE, Raw Impressions, Dixon Place, Makor, and the Ensemble Studio Theater, where he was Director in Residence in 2003-2004. Isaac has also directed and produced concerts throughout the Northeast, including The Wit and Wisdom of Ira Gershwin, a tribute created by Dave Ives, Rob Fisher and Sheldon Harnick, at the 92nd Street Y’s lyrics and Lyricists series, T. For his production of Assassins, Isaac was one of ten student directors nationwide recognized by the Kennedy Center-American College Theater Festival in 2000. He is an alumnus of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab and the Commercial Theatre Institute, and a member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers.

birch PATRICIA BIRCH — BroadwayUSA! Guest Artistic Director - 1999 & 2005
In a career that crosses all media, Patricia Birch has earned two Emmy Awards, four Tony nominations, as well as Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Billboard, MTV, awards as well as a Directors Guild nomination for her choreography and direction. Ms. Birch did the choreography for Parade, directed by Harold Prince, written by Alfred Uhry and Jason Brown premiering at Lincoln Center and was nominated for several Tony Awards. She has created the musical staging for more than a dozen original Broadway and Off Broadway shows including: You're a Good Man Charlie Brown,, The Me Nobody Knows, Grease, A Little Night Music, Candide, Over Here, Diamond Studs, The Happy End, Pacific Overtures, They're Playing Our Song, Gilda Radner - Live from New York, Zoot Suit, Rosa...direction as well for Celebrating Music at BAM, the televised all star concert production of On the Town, with Michael Tilson Thomas, the Melissa Manchester musical, I Sent a Letter to My Love, Sendak and King's Really Rosie, Raggedy Anne, Elvis, The Snow Queen (a new musical by Adrian Mitchell and Richard Peaslee, which premiered regionally, and played in London, winter 1998), and Band in Berlin, a multi-media theatre docu-musical about the Comedian Harmonists, March 1998 at The American Music Theatre Festival, now readying for NYC. Opera projects include Salome, The Mikado, Candide, Street Scene for New York City Opera, and direction of The Mass and The Balcony for The Opera Company of Boston, as well as the Lukas Foss Jumping Frog of Calaveras County. Ms. Birch's film credits include choreography for all musical sequences for Grease, direction as well for Grease 2. Musical sequences for Big, Working Girl, Sleeping with the Enemy, Stella, Awakenigs, Bill Bathgate, Roseland, The Wild Party, Cowboy Way, and First Wives Club. For television: Direction for Natalie Cole - Unforgettable with Love, Celebrating Gershwin (Emmy Awards for both), Dance in America, 20th Anniversaty of Great Performances, a mini-musical by Cy Coleman with M. Broderick, etc. and Natalie Cole's Untraditional Traditional Christmas featuring Elmo (Directors Guild nomination). The Electric Company (staff). Ms. Birch spent six years staging numbers for Gilda Radner, Steve Martin and others on Saturday Night Live; as well as music videos for Cyndi Lauper, Rolling Stones, Oak Ridge Boys, Carly Simon, and the NBC Olympics. Ms. Birch was a leading soloist with the Martha Graham Co. as well as one of its directors, and played "Anybody's" in Broadway's West Side Story, and danced as well in revivals for Agnes De Mille.
bobbie WALTER BOBBIE — BroadwayUSA! Guest Artistic Director - 2000
Mr. Bobbie directed the new Broadway musical Footloose with a Tony-nominated score by Tom Snow and Dean Pitchford. With original screenwriter Dean Pitchford he also co-authored the book, which received a Tony nomination as well. He received Broadway's Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics' Circle awards as Best Director for Chicago. Its success spawned two American tours, as well as productions in London, Australia, Vienna, Sweden and Holland. Mr. Bobbie was the artistic director of City Center's acclaimed Encore's! Great American Musicals In Concert. After directing its premiere of Fiorello, he produced Call Me Madam, Out of this World, DuBarry was a Lady and One Touch of Venus with stars Tyne Daly, Peter Gallagher, Andrea Martin, Patti LuPone, Robert Morse and Faith Prince. Encores! received a 1996 New York Drama Critics Award for "Special Achievement." His production of Chicago moved to Broadway with its original Encores! stars Ann Reinking, Bebe Neuwirth, James Naughton and Joel Grey. Mr. Bobbie also directed For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls at Ensemble Studio Theater, Durang Durang at Manhattan Theater Club, Nude Nude Totally Nude at the New York Shakespeare Festival, and he conceived and directed Rodgers and Hammerstein's A Grand Night for Singing at Rainbow & Stars and the Roundabout Theater, where it received two Tony nominations including Best Musical. Mr. Bobbie is also an actor whose appearances on Broadway and Off-Broadway include Guys and Dolls (Drama Desk nomination), Assassins,Getting Married, Anything Goes, Cafe Crown, Driving Miss Daisy, Up from Paradise, I Love My Wife, A History of the American Film, the original Grease, Dames at Sea, and the star-studded GMHC benefit Anyone Can Whistle at Carnegie Hall. Recent films appearances include The First Wives Club, Stephen King's Thinner and HBO's Edie and Pen, as well as television appearances on Hill St. Blues, LA Law, The Equalizer, Law & Order, NYPD Blue, New York News and daytime's Loving, where he portrayed both brothers Denny and Wally Anderson. Mr. Bobbie is also a frequent guest on National Public Radio with Garrison Keillor's "A Prairie Home Companion." Mr. Bobbie is a graduate of the University of Scranton with a Master's degree in Theater from The Catholic University of America.
charnin MARTIN CHARNIN — BroadwayUSA! Guest Artistic Director - 2001
Mr. Charnin originated the role of Big Deal in the Broadway production of West Side Story in 1957. His award winning Broadway production of Annie (the 11th longest running musical in history) celebrated its twentienth anniversary in 1997 with a return to Broadway. Mr. Charnin has been the director, lyricist, composer, librettist, producer or a combination of the aforementioned for over 75 other theatrical productions, including Annie Warbucks, the rock opera version of Joan of Arc, Mata Hari, Loose Lips, Galileo, Sid Caesar & Company, Carnal Knowledge, In Persons with Eli Walach and Anne Jackson, The Flowering Peach, Winchell, Cafe Crown, Laughing Matters, The First, I Remember Mama, Ballad for a Firing Squad, La Strada, Upstairs at O'Neal's, Two by Two (with Richard Rodgers), and The National Lampoon Show. He has received four Tony nominations, two Tony Awards, six Grammy Awards, three Emmy Awards, three Gold and two Platinum Records and most recently another Grammy Award for Jay-Z's rap album Hard Knock Life which went triple platinum in 1999. He just returned from Australia where his brand new production of Annie opened in Sydney to smash reviews. The millennium will bring a new musical based on the Robert E. Sherwood classic, Waterloo Bridge, which he is writing and directing, Rainbow Corner (a musical he is collaborating on with Nathan Silver, about British War Brides in 1944), and the first London production of Two by Two. He has two children, Randy and Sasha, and a black labrador Cole. His wife, Jade Hobson-Charnin, is the fashion director of New York magazine.
danielle GRACIELA DANIELE — BroadwayUSA! Guest Artistic Director - Inaugural Season - 1998
Ms. Daniele has choreographed/directed on Broadway, at Lincoln Center, Public Theater and regional theatres, and earned nine Tony nominations and six Drama Desk nominations. Ragtime, for which she created the musical staging, opened to rave reviews and earned 13 Tony Award nominations including one for Ms. Daniele for Best Choreography. Other Broadway credits include: The Goodbye Girl, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Once On This Island and Zorba with Anthony Quinn, The Rink which starred Liza Minnelli and Chita Rivera, and The Mystery of Edwin Drood. She choreographed the New York Shakespeare Festival production of The Pirates of Penzance in New York, Los Angeles and London, the motion picture of Pirates and Woody Allen's last three films including Mighty Aprhodite for which she won the 1996 Fosse Award. On leave from her position as resident director of the Lincoln Center Theater, Gracie directed and choreographed the new adaptation of Annie Get Your Gun, starring Bernadette Peters, for Broadway. She also directed and choreographed the Michael John LaChiusa musical Marie Chirstine at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre at Lincoln Center.
marshall KATHLEEN MARSHALL — BroadwayUSA! Guest Artistic Director - 2005
Kathleen Marshall directed and choreographed the Broadway revival of Wonderful Town (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Astaire Awards for choreography; Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations for direction) and choreographed the Broadway productions of Little Shop of Horrors, Follies (Outer Critics Circle nomination), Seussical, Kiss Me Kate (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Astaire nominations), Ring Around the Moon (Lincoln Center Theater), 1776 (Roundabout) and Swinging On a Star (Drama Desk nomination). Ms. Marshall is Director in Residence for City Center Encores!, where she was the Artistic Director for four seasons. For Encores!, she directed and choreographed House of Flowers, Carnival, Hair, Wonderful Town and Babes in Arms. In the West End, she choreographed Kiss Me Kate (Olivier nomination). For Second Stage Theatre, she directed and choreographed Saturday Night, the New York premiere of Stephen Sondheim's first musical. For ABC/Disney, she choreographed Meredith Willson's The Music Man starring Matthew Broderick (Emmy nomination). Other credits include Violet(Playwright's Horizons), As Thousands Cheer (Drama Dept.) and Sunset Boulevard (National Tour). She is on the Executive Board of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers.
rando JOHN RANDO — BroadwayUSA! Guest Artistic Director - 2004
Broadway: Urinetown, Neil Simon's The Dinner Party, also the Mark Taper Forum and the Kennedy Center. New York credits include Do Re Mi and Strike Up The Band at City Center Encores!; Mere Mortals at the John Houseman, Ancient History, English Made Simple and An Empty Plate in the Caf&ecaute; Du Grand Boeuf at Primary Stages. The Venetian Twins, When Ladies Battle and Twelfth Night at the Pearl Theatre Company, Things You Shouldn't Say Past Midnight at the Promenade. His West Coast credits include All In The Timing, The Comedy of Errors, Sylvia and A Moon for the Misbegotten at the Old Globe. For the Berkshire Theatre Festival he directed 31 Rue Du L'Amour, Mad Forest, An Empty Plate in the Café Du Grand Boeuf, the world premiere of Visiting Mr. Green and the world premiere of Lives of the Saints by David Ives. He also directed the world premiere of A.R. Gurney's The Guest Lecturer at George Street Playhouse. His other regional credits include productions at Cleveland Playhouse, Studio Arena in Buffalo, The Philadelphia Theatre Company, Playmakers Rep in North Carolina, Syracuse Stage and the Portland Stage Company. He was a Drama League directing fellow and holds an M.F.A. from UCLA.