Black was born Debra Ressler to New York lawyer Ira Ressler. She is the sister of Tony Ressler, who co-founded Apollo Global Management with Leon Black. She graduated from Barnard College in 1976.
Black is a Broadway producer who has been nominated for ten Tony Awards, winning two in the Tony Award for Best Play category for The History Boys (2006) and The Pillow Man (2008).
Black and her husband co-founded the Melanoma Research Alliance, which funds melanoma research worldwide. Black is a melanoma survivor herself.
She was elected a trustee of the Rockefeller University in 2010. In 2015, She was elected a ... read more
Alex Koch approaches the field of new media design on three fronts: as a performer whose tools are film and animation, as a computer programmer guiding his content, and as a researcher digging through archives and shoeboxes with sleeves pulled to shoulders.
His creative style ranges from colorful glamour and grime crafted for the head-banging rock opera GOODBAR to evocative historical imagery blended with modern reconstructions of a whirlwind 1960s New York for the Jazz Loft Project’s large-scale installation Chaos Manor. From the flowing, personal interplay of the world premiere Invisible Man to the twisted comic book animated on stage in ... read more
Credits: Evita; Sugar Babies; Me and My Girl; The Goat (Tony Award); Movin’ Out (Tony Award); Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; Cyrano; Dirty Dancing; West Side Story; 9 to 5; The Addams Family; Merchant of Venice; Race; Promises, Promises; Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark; Priscilla Queen of the Desert; and Hello, Dolly! (Tony Award). ... read more
James L. Nederlander is President of the Nederlander Organization and son of James M. Nederlander (Chairman). He is the third generation of a family known for owning and operating theatres around the world as well as theatrical productions, cultural presentations and popular music attractions. Current productions include West Side Story, The Addams Family, Next to Normal and Race. Upcoming productions include a live show with magician David Blaine. ... read more
Select credits:
The Story of My Life (Broadway) Associate Lighting Designer
The Yellow Brick Road (Theatreworks USA) Assistant Lighting Designer
Side Effects (MCC Theatre) Assistant Lighting Designer
Peter and the Starcatcher (NYTW) Assistant Lighting Designer
The Blue Flower (Prospect Theatre Company) Lighting Designer
With Glee (Prospect Theatre Company) Lighting Designer
This Side of Paradise (Off-Bway) Lighting Designer
Newsies! (Paper Mill Playhouse) Assistant Lighting Designer
How To Succeed... (Goodspeed Opera House) Assistant Lighting Designer
Band Geeeks! (Goodspeed Opera House) Assistant Lighting Designer
Lost in the Stars (Encores!) Assistant Lighting Designer
Where's Charley? (Encores!) Assistant Lighting Designer
Central Avenue Breakdown (NYMF) Lighting Designer
Greenwood (NYMF) Lighting Designer
POPart (NYMF) Lighting Designer
The 10th Floor (NYMF) Lighting Designer
The Bubble ... read more
Daryl Roth is a Tony Award-winning Broadway producer who has been a driving force in the theater industry for over 30 years. She is known for her innovative productions, which often tackle challenging and thought-provoking subject matter.
Born in 1945 in Lakewood, New Jersey, Roth grew up in a family that was deeply involved in the arts. Her father was a musician and her mother was a painter, and they encouraged their daughter to pursue her own creative interests. Roth attended the University of California, Berkeley, where she studied history and literature.
After college, Roth moved to New York City and began ... read more
Arthur Siccardi was a Production Manager, Technical Supervisor, and Production Supervisor with countless Broadway credits. He worked on shows such as Chicago, La Cage Aux Folles, Billy Elliot, Grease, A Chorus Line, The Color Purple, Gypsy, Mamma Mia!, Jesus Christ Superstar, Saturday Night Fever, Annie Get Your Gun, and many more. ... read more
Leonard Soloway has been involved with over 150 productions, including Waiting in the Wings with Lauren Bacall and Rosemary Harris, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Jerome Robbins' Broadway, A Moon For the Misbegotten and Mark Twain Tonight! with Hal Holbrook.
His productions collected more than 40 Tony Awards, 21 Drama Desk Awards and three Pulitzer Prizes. In addition to launching many careers from performers to craftspeople, Leonard has worked with veteran stage actors like Jason Robards and Colleen Dewhurst as well as film stars like Paul Newman whose revival of Our Town on Broadway was facilitated by Mr. ... read more