Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me - Broadway Creative Team

Daniel Goldfarb is a playwright, librettist, television writer/producer, screenwriter, and educator. His new play, Men’s Health, was recently released on Audible starring Tony Shalhoub, Santino Fontana, Laura Benanti, Dianne Guerrero, and Tom Hollander, directed by Scott Ellis (audible.com/menshealth). His other plays include Legacy (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Cradle and All (Manhattan Theatre Club); The Retributionists (Playwrights Horizons); Modern Orthodox (Dodger Stages); Sarah, Sarah (Manhattan Theatre Club); and Adam Baum And The Jew Movie (Blue Light Theatre Company- Oppenheimer Award, Canadian Authors Association Award, Hull-Warriner Award Finalist). His musicals include Piece of My Heart (Signature Theatre); Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me (Broadway); ... read more Marc Shaiman is a composer/lyricist/arranger/performer working in films, television, musical theater and recordings. He has won several honors, including a Tony, an Emmy, a Grammy, plus seven Oscar nominations. For "Mary Poppins Returns" he was nominated for two Oscars, a BAFTA, a Golden Globe and a Grammy. His other Oscar nominations have been for “Sleepless In Seattle", “Patch Adams”, “The First Wives Club”, "The American President" and “South Park-Bigger, Longer & Uncut”. Other film credits include “Beaches”, “When Harry Met Sally”, “City Slickers”, “The Addams Family”, “Sister Act”, “A Few Good Men”, "Hocus Pocus", “The Bucket List” and "Hairspray". He and ... read more Short is known for his work on the television programs SCTV and Saturday Night Live. He created the characters Jiminy Glick and Ed Grimley. He also acted in the sitcom Mulaney (2014–2015), the variety series Maya & Marty (2016), and the drama series The Morning Show (2019). He has also had an active career on stage, starring in Broadway productions including Neil Simon's musicals The Goodbye Girl (1993) and Little Me (1998–1999). The latter earned him a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical and the former a nomination in the same category. He appeared on Broadway in It's ... read more Wittman was raised in Nanuet, New York, graduated from Nanuet Senior High School in 1972 and attended Emerson College in Boston for two years before leaving to pursue a career in musical theatre in New York City. While directing a show for a Greenwich Village club he met songwriter and composer Marc Shaiman, and the two became collaborators and professional partners. While Shaiman wrote for television shows, including Saturday Night Live, Wittman directed concerts for such artists as Bette Midler, Christine Ebersole, Raquel Welch, Dame Edna Everage, and Lypsinka, among others. In 2002, Shaiman and Wittman wrote the music and lyrics ... read more Larry Blank is a composer, orchestrator and conductor, based in Los Angeles, New York and London, whose career has found him working with some of the most respected names in theatre, film, television and music, as well as exciting new talents. More recently, Larry was instructor for the first master class in film orchestration and conducting in Matera, Italy. He also orchestrated the West End Musical BEAUTIFUL AND DAMNED and was the Music Director for Katie Couric's HOLLYWOOD HITS BROADWAY aboard the QM2 in New York Harbor, Larry also arranged and orchestrated JOHN BARROWMAN SWINGS COLE PORTER for the acclaimed West ... read more Broadway design credits include: The Addams Family, Rock of Ages, West Side Story (Revival), Bye Bye Bye Birdie, Dreamgirls (National Tour); Memphis, Gypsy (with Patti LuPone), 9 to 5 (Mark Taper Forum and Broadway), Young Frankenstein (Broadway and National Tour), The Little Mermaid, The Royal Family, After Miss Julie, Accent on Youth, Guys and Dolls (Revival), 33 Variations, Pal Joey, A Catered Affair, Minsky’s (Pre-Broadway/Mark Taper Forum), Curtains, Dr. Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas! (Broadway and National Tour), Sunday In The Park With George, Company, Sweeney Todd, Dangerous Liaisons, The Ritz, Cymbeline, The Country Girl (Frances McDormand), The New ... read more * Credits include Evita, The Book of Mormon, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Seminar. Recent productions: House of Blue Leaves, West Side Story, La Bete, Come Fly Away, Ragtime, Gypsy, The Color Purple, Spamalot. Co-founded the investment firm Furman Selz, currently vice chairman Jeffries & Company. Vice chairman of Lincoln Center, Chairman emeritus of the Film Society of Lincoln Center, vice president NY City Opera. Broadway: Once, High, Looped, The Story of My Life, Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me. National tours: Les Misérables, Cabaret, Dora the Explorer Live!, Blues Clues Live!, Beauty and the Beast. Regional: Goodspeed, Westport Country Playhouse, North Carolina Theatre. Related: Cirque du Soleil’s Zarkana, “The 64th Annual Tony Awards,” The Radio City Christmas Spectacular. CHRISTOPHER GATTELLI was awarded the 2012 Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Awards for his choreography in Newsies. Broadway (choreographer): The King & I (Tony nomination), South Pacific (Tony and Outer Critics Circle nominations), My Fair Lady, War Paint, Amazing Grace, Casa Valentina, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Sunday in the Park With George, Godspell, The Ritz, Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me, 13, High Fidelity. Off- Broadway: Dogfight (Lortel Award), Altar Boyz (Lortel Award, Callaway Award, Drama Desk Nom.), Bat Boy: The Musical (Lortel Award), 10 Million Miles, Adrift in Maco, tick,tick...BOOM!, I Love You Because. ... read more Broadway: Once, Wicked, Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Looped, High, The Story of My Life. Off-Broadway: Once; Through the Night; Love, Loss, and What I Wore; The Retributionists; The Drunken City; Walmartopia; The Vagina Monologues; Fully Committed; 2.5 Minute Ride; Bosoms and Neglect. Many regional productions. Jess received the 2005 Tony Award for Lincoln Center's The Rivals. Other selected New York credits include Julius Caesar with Denzel Washington, Henry IV; Take Me Out; Enchanted April; Proof; Love! Valour! Compassion! ; The Most Happy Fella; Dinner With Friends; How I Learned To Drive; NYSF's Much Ado About Nothing; Buried Child and The Mineola Twins (Lortel and Hewes Awards). He will make his Met debut with Jack O'Brien's 2007 production of Il Trittico. Designs for film include A Walk On The Moon; Love! Valour! Compassion! and The Substance Of Fire. He is an Associate Professor at the ... read more Peter Hylenski received a Drama Desk Award and an Outer Critics Circle Award Honour for his work on Moulin Rouge! The Musical. A Grammy, Olivier, and seven-time Tony nominee, his selected design credits include Frozen, Anastasia, Beetlejuice, Once on This Island, Something Rotten, King Kong, Rock of Ages, After Midnight, Motown, The Scottsboro Boys, Side Show, Rocky, Bullets Over Broadway, Shrek the Musical, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, Lend Me a Tenor, Elf, Wonderland, Cry-Baby, The Times They Are a-Changin’, The Wedding Singer, Sweet Charity, Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me. Broadway: Memphis, 33 Variations, Guys and Dolls, In the Heights, Jersey Boys, The Color Purple, Martin Short: Fame . . .,Good Vibrations, The Apple Tree, A Raisin in the Sun, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Lieutenant of Inishmoor, Radio Golf, Sight Unseen, Cymbeline, Henry IV, The Rivals, Xanadu, and Superior Donuts. Jersey Boys U.S. tour, Chicago, Las Vegas Toronto, London, and Melbourne. The Color Purple national tour, Xanadu national tour, and In The Heights national tour. Many Off-Broadway and regional credits. CHRIS LEE (Knuck). Broadway debut! Off-Broadway: Hell’s Kitchen. Hamilton (Chicago). Film: Play Dead, Back to Lyla, Single Car Crashes. TV: “Legacies,” “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” (CW); “The Chi” (Showtime); “Scream” (MTV); “S.W.A.T” (CBS); “Empire” (Fox). Chris is also a musical artist, whose music can be streamed on all media platforms. Actor, singer, songwriter, musician, producer, screenwriter, poker player; the kid is crazy. All Glory to God. Gabby, Bryce, Blaire, and Beautiful, you’re my world. @theofficialchrislee Recent Broadway: Lennon, Sweeney Todd, The Producers, Beauty & the Beast, Hairspray, Movin’ Out, Sweet Charity, Good Vibrations, Dracula, Caroline or Change, Little Shop…, Thoroughly Modern Millie, 42nd St, Urinetown, Nine, La Boheme, Big River, Boys From Syracuse, Look of Love, Urban Cowboy, Never Gonna Dance, Thou Shalt Not, By Jeeves, Follies, Oklahoma!, Jekyll and Hyde, Rocky Horror Show, Seussical, The Music Man, Fosse, Swing!, Parade, Footloose, Kat and the Kings, Civil War, Triumph of Love. Studio Musician (bass): Michael Jackson, Madonna, Portishead, Eric Clapton, BB King, Sinatra, Carly Simon, Celine Dion, Smashing Pumpkins, Pete Seeger, NY Philharmonic. Robert Nolan, an ATPAM Manager since 1989 and former President, died on Wednesday December 27th.   Robert began his career as personal assistant to Carol Channing and her husband Charles Lowe during tours of Hello, Dolly! and Jerry’s Girls.  This led to his first show as a Company Manager: the tour of My One and Only.  On Broadway, he worked on Cabaret with Joel Grey, Starlight Express, Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me, A Tale of Two Cities and a long stint for Cameron Mackintosh including Oklahoma!, Putting it Together, Les Miserables, and The Phantom of the Opera. At the time of his death he was employed at 101 Productions, Ltd.   Robert’s love for the theater and the community runs ... read more Brian Pareschi Born and raised in Rochester, New York, New York based trumpeter/Composer/Arranger Brian Pareschi has a Masters of Music in Jazz Composition and Arranging from Manhattan School of Music, and a Bachelors of Arts in Biology from University of ... read more Selected Broadway credits include The Book of Mormon (Tony Award); The Band's Visit; Something Rotten!; Oh, Hello!; Saint Joan; The Little Foxes; Waitress; Pippin (Tony nomination); An Act of God; Blackbird; The Pillowman (Tony Award); The Visit; It's Only a Play; Finding Neverland; Casa Valentina; I'll Eat You Last; The Coast of Utopia (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Awards); Take Me Out; Hair; Pal Joey (Tony nomination); Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Tony nomination, Drama Desk Award); Nine; and Urinetown. Also Cirque Du Soleil's Amaluna; Peter Grimes, Met Opera. Insta @scottpaskstudio Marc Shaiman is a composer/lyricist/arranger/performer working in films, television, musical theater and recordings. He has won several honors, including a Tony, an Emmy, a Grammy, plus seven Oscar nominations. For "Mary Poppins Returns" he was nominated for two Oscars, a BAFTA, a Golden Globe and a Grammy. His other Oscar nominations have been for “Sleepless In Seattle", “Patch Adams”, “The First Wives Club”, "The American President" and “South Park-Bigger, Longer & Uncut”. Other film credits include “Beaches”, “When Harry Met Sally”, “City Slickers”, “The Addams Family”, “Sister Act”, “A Few Good Men”, "Hocus Pocus", “The Bucket List” and "Hairspray". He and ... read more A native of Portland, OR, Alan earned his bachelor's degree at Columbia University, majoring in music composition and orchestration, and got his start in the professional theater at Circle in the Square - first as subscription manager and later as assistant managing director. After years of gaining experience on the road with touring productions, Alan was appointed general manager of productions for The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in 1985. It was while there that Wasser began his long, enormously successful professional relationship with Mackintosh, starting with the United States premiere of Les Misérables in December, 1986 ... read more Wittman was raised in Nanuet, New York, graduated from Nanuet Senior High School in 1972 and attended Emerson College in Boston for two years before leaving to pursue a career in musical theatre in New York City. While directing a show for a Greenwich Village club he met songwriter and composer Marc Shaiman, and the two became collaborators and professional partners. While Shaiman wrote for television shows, including Saturday Night Live, Wittman directed concerts for such artists as Bette Midler, Christine Ebersole, Raquel Welch, Dame Edna Everage, and Lypsinka, among others. In 2002, Shaiman and Wittman wrote the music and lyrics ... read more