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Jennifer Strome is an American producer and writer, focusing on script and show development.
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Jennifer Strome is an American producer and writer, focusing on script and show development.
Strome began her career in San Francisco at the Plush Room Cabaret as Entertainment Director, and with The Chamber Theatre Company as Associate managing director and assistant to the Artistic Director. In New York, Strome has produced readings and off-Broadway productions including Goodnight Vienna at The Players Club, The Betrayal of Nora Blake at The Blue Heron Theatre, and the off-Broadway musical Suburb, co-produced with The York Theatre Company, winner of the Richard Rodgers Development Award.[ citation needed ]
Strome produced the Jerry Herman musical revue Showtune multiple times starting in San Francisco at the Alcazar Theatre followed by two London productions, one at the Bridewell Theatre off Fleet Street, followed by another at the Vaudeville Theatre in the West End. She produced the off-Broadway production of Showtune at the Theatre at St. Peter's Church in New York City with mentor and co-producer, the filmmaker, David Brown. [1]
Strome re-created, produced and directed the original dramatic adaptation of The Diary of Anne Frank in 2009 at The Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York. Meyer Levin's radio play Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl . [2] The event featured a talkback with Cynthia Ozick, hosted by Neil Baldwin, PhD. In 2011, Strome's own play, The Idealist, an account of Levin's quest to bring The Diary of Anne Frank to the stage, was performed at the Times Center starring Alison Pill and Tony Roberts. [3] [4] [5] as a one night only reading to benefit The Anne Frank Center in Basel, Switzerland
Strome is a member of Dramatists Guild, Writers Guild of America and The League of Off-Broadway Theatres and Producers.[ citation needed ]
An off-Broadway theatre is any professional theatre venue in Manhattan in New York City with a seating capacity between 100 and 499, inclusive. These theatres are smaller than Broadway theatres, but larger than off-off-Broadway theatres, which seat fewer than 100.
Showtune is a musical revue celebrating the words and music of Broadway composer and lyricist Jerry Herman. Its title was inspired by Herman's autobiography of the same name. The revue's original title was Tune the Grand Up. After its 1985 San Francisco premiere and several regional productions through the 1990s, the piece played in the West End in 1998 under the title The Best of Times, and Off-Broadway in 2003, titled Showtune.
Lauren Anne D'Ambruoso, known professionally as Lauren Ambrose, is an American actress and singer. She is known for her work in television, film, and on Broadway.
Martin Charnin was an American lyricist, writer, and theatre director. Charnin's best-known work is as conceiver, director and lyricist of the musical Annie.
John Guare is an American playwright and screenwriter. He is best known as the author of The House of Blue Leaves and Six Degrees of Separation.
Anneliese Louise van der Pol is a Dutch-American actress and singer. Following her early career in musical theatre, she is best known for her role as Chelsea Daniels on That's So Raven, a role she reprises on its sequel Raven's Home. Van der Pol also has a career as a singer and has recorded several songs for The Walt Disney Company. She made her Broadway debut in 2007, and appeared Off-Broadway in 2009. She has also acted in the 2010 vampire spoof film Vampires Suck directed by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer.
The Broadway Kids was a concert group based in New York.
The Diary of Anne Frank is a stage adaptation of the book The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank. It premiered on Broadway at the Cort Theatre in 1955. Its script also primarily formed the basis of the 1959 film adaptation.
The 10th Annual Tony Awards took place at the Plaza Hotel Grand Ballroom on April 1, 1956. The Master of Ceremonies was Jack Carter.
Gordon Greenberg is a stage director, a theater and television writer, and an Artistic Associate at The New Group.
Thomas Kail is an American theatre director, known for directing the Off-Broadway and Broadway productions of Lin-Manuel Miranda's musicals In the Heights and Hamilton, garnering the 2016 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical for the latter. Kail was awarded the Kennedy Center Honor in 2018.
Love, Loss, and What I Wore is a play written by Nora and Delia Ephron based on the 1995 book of the same name by Ilene Beckerman. It is organized as a series of monologues and uses a rotating cast of five principal women. The subject matter of the monologues includes women's relationships and wardrobes and at times the interaction of the two, using the female wardrobe as a time capsule of a woman's life.
Love, Loss, and What I Wore is a play written by Nora and Delia Ephron based on the 1995 book of the same name by Ilene Beckerman. It is organized as a series of monologues and uses a rotating cast of five principal women. The play was originally produced as a part of the 2008 summer series at Guild Hall in East Hampton, New York and then as a benefit series at the Off-Off-Broadway DR2 Theatre in New York in early 2009. It was then produced as an ongoing commercial theatrical production at the Westside Theatre in New York. The original commercial production opened in 2009 Off-Broadway. The show has been performed on five continents and more than eight countries. It continues to play Off-Broadway and continues its United States national tour that began in the fall of 2011 in Chicago.
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl is an original radio play by author Meyer Levin (1905–1981). It was adapted from Levin’s original stage dramatization of the same name, adapted from The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank's diary. It aired on CBS on September 18, 1952, the eve of Rosh Hashanah, to critical acclaim, and again in November 1952.
Fun Home is a musical adapted by Lisa Kron and Jeanine Tesori from Alison Bechdel's 2006 graphic memoir of the same name. The story concerns Bechdel's discovery of her own sexuality, her relationship with her gay father, and her attempts to unlock the mysteries surrounding his life. It is the first Broadway musical with a lesbian protagonist. It is told in a series of non-linear vignettes connected by narration provided by the adult Alison character.
David Stone is an American theatre producer.
Jonathan Stuart Cerullo is an award-winning American director and choreographer, executive producer, and former performer. Cerullo is known for his work on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and regionally. He has also worked in circus, film, and television.
Sophia Anne Caruso is an American actress and singer best known for originating the role of Lydia Deetz in the Broadway musical Beetlejuice from March 2019 until February 2020, a role for which she won a Theatre World Award.
Christopher Massimine is an award-winning theatrical producer, general manager, television and film producer, entertainment executive, playwright, composer, and a leading voice in arts advocacy. Massimine was the recipient of the National Performing Arts Association's 2019 Humanitarian of the Year Award. He co-founded the Immigrant Arts Coalition, served as a special advisor to the New York City and New York State administrations, was an executive trustee and a past development chair of the Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York, and the former chief executive officer of the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, the longest consecutively producing performing arts institution in the United States, and the world's oldest-operating Yiddish Theatre. He is current managing director of Pioneer Theatre Company and a senior administrator at the University of Utah.
Lauren Marie Patten is an American actress and singer best known for originating the role of Jo in the Broadway musical Jagged Little Pill, as well as playing the role of Medium Alison in the Broadway production of Fun Home.