Shakespeare for My Father - Broadway Creative Team

Broadway: Take Me Out, Lynn Redgrave’s Shakespeare For My Father, Royal Shakespeare Company’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Off-Broadway (selected): Clybourne Park at Playwrights Horizons and CTG, Lynn Redgrave’s Nightingale at MTC and Hartford Stage, The Public Theater, Second Stage, New York Theatre Workshop, Labyrith Theater Company. Regional: La Jolla Playhouse, American Repertory Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, six summer seasons at Berkshire Theatre Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Two River Theater. Broadway credits include Annie Get Your Gun, Jekyll & Hyde, The Heiress, Stephen Sondheim’s Passion and The Elephant Man. Her lighting of Amadeus won a Tony award. Regionals include JF Kennedy Center, the Guthrie, Arena Stage, the Alley. Off B’way she worked for Joseph Chaikin and Meredith Monk. For Robert Wilson; Einstein on the Beach and others. Her designs for dance: Martha Graham, Trisha Brown, Alvin Ailey, Merce Cunningham. Awards: seven Tony nominations, several American Theatre Wings, 1980 Obie and others. Producing credits include: The Little Dog Laughed; Metamorphoses; Frozen; A View From the Bridge (Tony® Award); How I Learned to Drive (Pulitzer Prize); Wit (Pulitzer Prize); Three Tall Women (Pulitzer Prize). Upcoming: Behind the Limelight; Cassandra’s Angel. 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