Producers // Michael Jackowitz

Michael Jackowitz is currently producing the 2011 Broadway revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, starring Daniel Radcliffe and John Laroquette.  Michael is also Executive Producing the musical Daddy Long Legs by John Caird and Paul Gordon, recipient of the 2010 LA Ovation Award for Best Book, Music, and Lyrics of a Musical, currently on national tour (www.daddylonglegsmusical.com).  Michael’s other current producing projects include the opera Séance on a Wet Afternoon (www.seancetheopera.com) by award-winning composer Stephen Schwartz, as well as My Fairytale, a new Hans Christian Andersen musical also by Stephen Schwartz, premiering in the US in Summer 2011 at PCPA Solvang.   

In regional theater, Michael produced the premiere of The Best Is Yet To Come: The Music of Cy Coleman devised and directed by David Zippel at Rubicon Theatre Company July 2009. This review of Cy’s music starred Lillias White, Jason Graae, Sally Mayes, Julia Murney, David Burnham and Billy Stritch. He also produced My Antonia, an adaptation of the Willa Cather novel by Scott Schwartz with incidental music by Stephen Schwartz at Rubicon Theatre Company in Ventura which then transferred to Pacific Resident Theatre Company in Los Angeles (2008 LA Weekly Nominee, Best Production). Concurrently, Michael produced the World Premiere of It’s Only Life (2008 LA Ovation Award: Best Book/Music/Lyrics of an original work), by John Bucchino, directed by Daisy Prince (2008 Santa Barbara Independent Award: Best Director, Songs For A New World, The Last Five Years), with vocal arrangements by Jason Robert Brown, and starring Billy Porter, Joan Almedilla, Lucas Steele, Jamison Stern and Jessica Phillips at Rubicon Theatre Company. In 2008, Michael served as Executive Producer for the benefit staged reading of One Red Flower by Paris Barclay starring Maureen McGovern, Hunter Parrish, David Burnham and Josh Henderson at the Brentwood Theater in Los Angeles.

In the commercial theater, Michael has produced the West Coast Premiere of Jonathan Larson’s tick, tick…BOOM!, directed by Scott Schwartz, at the Coronet Theatre in Los Angeles following its successful run at the Rubicon Theatre. In New York, he produced Nicky Silver’s Food Chain at the Westside Theater directed by Robert Falls and starring Hope Davis and Phyllis Newman; Bill Davis (Mass Appeal)’ AVOW at the Century Theater directed by Jack Hofsiss and starring Jane Powell and Chris Sieber; I, Do, I Do at Queens Theater in the Park with Donna McKechnie and regionally: the musical Abyssinia at the Lyric Stage in Dallas

Michael is also on the board of the directors of The Directors Company (TDC) in NYC, a non-profit company that develops new projects and highlights new directors. He joined TDC in 1992 and became their musical theater liaison for the Harold Prince Musical Theater Program. During that time he was involved with the development of dozens of new projects including Children of Eden by Stephen Schwartz, Three, Splendora, Eliot Ness in Cleveland, Johnnie Pie and the Foolkiller, Camilla, Ballad of Little Jo, The Molly Maguires and Nightmare Alley. Other TDC projects include: BATBOY and Goodbye My Friduchita with Pricilla Lopez.
Michael is a graduate of the Commercial Theater Institute’s Producing Seminar and currently serves as the Director of New Work for Rubicon Theatre Company.