MARSHALL BRICKMAN
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New York credits include: The Homecoming with Ian McShane,
Cymbeline,
Jersey Boys,
The Apple Tree with Kristin Chenoweth, Martin Short:
Fame Becomes Me, Lincoln Center’s
The Rivals (Tony Award),
Julius Caesar with Denzel Washington,
Henry IV,
Take Me Out (also Donmar Warehouse),
Enchanted April,
Proof,
Love! Valour! Compassion!,
The Most Happy Fella,
Dinner with Friends,
How I Learned to Drive,
Buried Child and
The Mineola Twins (Lortel and Hewes Awards).
Opera: Jack O’Brien’s
Il Trittico (Met 2007) and NYC Opera’s
The Pirates of Penzance. Film:
A Walk on the Moon,
Love! Valour! Compassion! and
The Substance of Fire. (as author or co-author)
Sleeper,
Annie Hall (Academy Award),
Manhattan,
Manhattan Murder Mystery, For the Boys and Intersection; (as writer/director)
Simon,
Lovesick,
The Manhattan Project and
Sister Mary Explains It All.
Television includes:
The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson (head writer) and the
ABC Dick Cavett Show (head writer/co-producer, two Emmy Awards).
Marshall Brickman entered showbusiness as a musician with the folk group The Tarriers, then, with John and Michelle Phillips, formed the pre-Mamas and Papas group The New Journeymen.
His recording (with Eric Weissberg) of the soundtrack of
Deliverance earned gold status twice. He has published in
The New York Times,
The New Yorker,
Playboy and other periodicals and was the 2006 recipient of the Writers’ Guild of America’s Ian McClellan Hunter Award for Lifetime Achievement.
Jersey Boys is his first venture into musical theatre.
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