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ISAAC ROBERT HURWITZ executive producer of the New York Musical Theatre Festival, is a theater director, producer, dramaturg, and musician. He has directed and developed new works at Trinity Repertory Theatre's New Plays Festival, the Kennedy Center, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Chashama, HERE, Raw Impressions, Dixon Place, Makor, and elsewhere in the Northeast. He is an alumnus of the Lincoln Center Director's Lab and a member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers. Putting his background as a musician to use, Isaac has also directed and produced numerous concerts. For the 92nd Street Y's Lyrics & Lyricists series, he directed The Wit and Wisdom of Ira Gershwin, a tribute created by David Ives, Rob Fisher, and Sheldon Harnick. For three seasons, Isaac served as Music Associate for City Center's Encores! series, assisting music director Rob Fisher on fifteen concert productions and overseeing the score restoration of A Connecticut Yankee, Bloomer Girl, Golden Boy and House of Flowers, among others. He was assistant director for the Encores! production of Pardon My English in 2004 and currently serves as a member of the series' Advisory Committee. Isaac studied theater at Brown University, where he received the Westin Award in Musical Theater. At Brown, he headed two producing organizations and developed several new musicals, including Stephen Karam's award-winning Emma. For his production of Assassins, Isaac was one of ten student directors nationwide recognized by the Kennedy Center-American College Theater Festival in 2000. In 2003-2004, Isaac was a Director in Residence at The Ensemble Studio Theatre (EST). He also headed EST's musical theatre development program, the Rusty Magee Music Project, which he helped establish. In 2005, Isaac returned to EST to produce the world premiere of Luminescence Dating, a new play by Carey Perloff.
Bio as of September, 2006.
Downstage Center (audio)
New York Musical Theatre Festival - September, 2006
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