The Nerd - Broadway Creative Team

Broadway: Venus in Fur, Time Stands Still, A View from the Bridge, The Royal Family, The Color Purple, Doubt, Chicago, Dinner at Eight, Proof, Rabbit Hole, Last Night of Ballyhoo, A Delicate Balance, The Heiress, The Most Happy Fella, The Sisters Rosensweig, Burn This, Penn & Teller, Ain't Misbehavin', Talley's Folly, Crimes of the Heart, Morning's at Seven, among others. Off-Broadway: Other Desert Cities, The Substance of Fire, A Life in the Theatre. Thirty-six seasons with MTC, Lincoln Center, Circle Rep, City Center Encores! Tony, Obie, DD, OCC awards; Theatre Hall of Fame. Graduate of Brown and Yale School of ... read more Martin Markinson, one of the leading Broadway producers and independent theatre owners of the past 50 years, died on Thursday, January 7th at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico surrounded by love. He was 89 years old. Arlena Markinson, his wife of 58 years who was with him when he died, confirmed that he succumbed to a long battle with cancer that spread through his body over the last two years. As the Broadway industry became more corporate towards the end of the last century with productions and theatres operated by conglomerates and large not-for-profit organizations, Martin "Marty" Markinson maintained and ... read more Joan Stein is a producer and theatre executive known for her work on Broadway and Off-Broadway. She was born in Brooklyn, New York and attended Brooklyn College, where she studied English and theatre. Stein began her career in the theatre industry as a stage manager for the off-Broadway production of "The Fantasticks" in 1960. She went on to work with the New York Shakespeare Festival, where she served as the production stage manager for the original production of "Hair" in 1967. In 1970, Stein co-founded the Manhattan Theatre Club with Lynne Meadow. The company started as an Off-Off-Broadway theatre and has since ... read more