Creative - Creators

 

MARC BRUNI (Director)

 

Pipe Dream (Encores!), Fanny (Encores!), Ordinary Days (Roundabout), In the Mood (Berkshire Theatre Festival), Spelling Bee (Paper Mill/PTC), Irving Berlin's White Christmas (Paper Mill), Such Good Friends (NYMF Award), High Spirits (York Mufti), Glimpses of the Moon (Oak Room) and for the St. Louis MUNY: The Music Man, Sound of Music (Kevin Kline Nominations), Legally Blonde, My One and Only, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. Associate on fifteen Broadway shows including Nice Work and Anything Goes.

 

 

PETER GETHERS (Creator)

 

Peter Gethers is President of Random House Studios, an editor/publisher at Random House, Inc., screenwriter, television writer/producer, novelist, and non-fiction author of the bestselling trilogy about his Scottish Fold cat Norton: The Cat Who Went to Paris, A Cat Abroad and The Cat Who'll Live Forever, which is why he's always tired. He helped start the fantasy sports craze with Mr. Okrent. His new novel, Ask Bob, will be published in August 2013.

 

 

DANIEL OKRENT (Creator)

 

Daniel Okrent has written books, newspaper columns, and liner notes; edited magazines; taught graduate school; invented games; appeared in films; won a fancy history prize; and yakked in documentaries. He belongs to the Authors Guild and the Screen Actors Guild, and with this production hopes to join the Dramatists Guild as well. He lives in New York and on Cape Cod with his shikse wife, poet Rebecca Okrent. Their half-breed children, John and Lydia, visit them frequently (but not frequently enough).

 

 

PHILIP ROGER ROY (Producer)

 

Philip has produced more than 45 shows since 1972 including the successful 2010-13 national tour of RESPECT: A Musical Journey of Women. Recent productions include My Mother's Italian, My Father's Jewish & I'm in Therapy! (with Bud Martin & Dana Matthow, 2010-2013) in Baltimore, Phoenix, Toronto, Philadelphia, Florida, San Diego, Boston & Wilmington he produced A Jew Grows in Brooklyn and in NYC at The Lamb's Theater in the heart of Broadway! He was Associate Producer & General Manager in Philadelphia of Menopause The Musical, which played 3.5 years to more than 212,000 (mostly) menopausal women.His production of Let My People Come (lMPC) played over 2300 performances in Philadelphia from 1977 to 1987, & he produced LMPC in 20 cities in the USA & Canada, including 8 years in Toronto. His other productions include: Family Secrets, Grandma Sylvia's Funeral (co-produced in Phila. with Dana), Greater Tuna (Walnut St. theatre & the Delaware theatre Company), The World of Lenny Bruce, Confessions of an Irish Rebel, Judy! The New Judy Garland Musical, El Grande de Coca Cola, Pretzels (by Jane Curtin), Sholom Aleichem, Cloud 9, Groucho: A 1-Man Show With 2-Women, Bullshot Crummond & The Fantasticks (in which he also performed). As owner/founder of Philadelphia's legendary Grendel's lair Cabaret theater (for 15 years), Mr. Roy produced hundreds of concerts including the Police, Dizzy Gillespie, Buddy Rich, & Charles Mingus. he co-produced The Male Intellect: An Oxymoron? and Say Goodnight Gracie (2009) both in Philly.