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MUSIC THEATRE INTERNATIONAL: MTI is one of the world’s leading dramatic licensing agencies, protecting the rights and legacy of composers, lyricists and book writers. Our core business is issuing licenses and supplying scripts, musical materials, and other theatrical resources to schools and theatres, both amateur and professional around the world. With nearly 300 titles in the MTI catalogue including hits from the Broadway and London stage, musical revues, the Broadway Junior Collection and other youth musicals, MTI shows have been performed by 60,000 amateur and professional theatrical organizations throughout the US and in over 60 countries around the world.
GORDON GREENBERG is currently co-writing (with Kirsten Childs) and directing a new musical for Disney Creative Entertainment and is the co-writer and director of BAND GEEKS, a new musical for Goodspeed Musicals 2010 season. He recently directed and adapted (with Stephen Schwartz and Lin Manuel Miranda) Studs Terkel’s WORKING for the Old Globe in San Diego and will direct it for Nederlander Broadway In Chicago in 2010. He co-conceived, adapted (with Nell Benjamin) and directed a new adaptation of PIRATES OF PENZANCE, entitled PIRATES! OR GILBERT AND SULLIVAN PLUNDER'D for the Huntington in Boston, Goodspeed Musicals, and Paper Mill Playhouse. It is currently being developed for Broadway by Hal Luftig and Fox Theatricals. He directed and created new translations for the acclaimed Off-Broadway revival of JACQUES BREL IS ALIVE AND WELL... at the Zipper Theatre (Drama Desk, Drama League and Outer Critics Award noms), and directed and redeveloped (with Garry Marshall and Paul Williams) the new musical HAPPY DAYS, which recently finished its first year of a U.S. National Tour for Bob Boyett Theatricals. He has directed and developed new musicals and reconceived productions for the past decade in New York, London and throughout the U.S. including the recent acclaimed revival of 1776 for Paper Mill Playhouse, The Citizens Band’s THE PANIC IS ON at New York’s Spiegeltent, THE BAKER'S WIFE by Stephen Schwartz and Joe Stein (Paper Mill, Goodspeed), CAM JANSEN by Larry O'Keefe & Nell Benjamin (Theatreworks USA), the National Tours of PETER PAN (Big League) and THE MYSTERY OF KING TUT by Mindy Dickstein and Hem’s Dan Messe (Theatreworks USA); BREAKING UP IS HARD TO DO by Neil Sedaka (Harbor Entertainment), as well as numerous television commercials and industrials.
He created Broadway’s education program, Broadway Classroom and is currently Co-Artistic Director of the Broadway Teachers Workshop. He studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Stanford University, NYU Film School and is a member of the Lincoln Center Theatre Director's Lab.
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PAM PARISEAU is currently the Vice President of James Hammerstein Productions, a theatrical production company represented this season by the Broadway Production of Tracy Letts SUPERIOR DONUTS and the critically acclaimed off-Broadway production of OUR TOWN at the Barrow Street Theatre. Other credits include: the Broadway production of THE SEAGULL with Kristin Scott Thomas and Peter Saarsgard, the West End Productions of DEALER’S CHOICE, SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE and DIRTY BLONDE (directed by James Lapine and featuring the original Broadway cast.) Off-Broadway credits include: MY NAME IS RACHEL CORRIE (directed by Alan Rickman), SLUT, BAT BOY THE MUSICAL (music and lyrics by Lawrence O’Keefe), and THE BIG BANG. Projects in development include a new musical called LUCKY BREAK based on the 1974 Woody Allen and Zero Mostel movie “The Front” to be directed by John Caird, and a West End production of the Simon Gray play THE LATE MIDDLE CLASES. She has served as Creative Director of National Artists Management Company (producers of the Broadway production of CHICAGO), Casting Director and Literary Manager for Musical Theatre Works (a developmental not for profit dedicated to new Musicals), and Artistic Director of the Helen Hays Performing Arts Center and the Chiswick Park Theatre. Along with Gordon Greenberg, she founded and served as Artistic Director for the Broadway Classroom program. She is a graduate of the Boston Conservatory.
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