Alan Eichler

Alan Eichler has worked professionally since the mid 1960's as a press agent, producer and talent manager. He was associate producer of the musical "Timbuktu!" starring Eartha Kitt, Melba Moore and Gilbert Price and co-producer of off-Broadway's "Women Behind Bars" by Tom Eyen and all three productions of Geraldine Fitzgerald's one-woman show "Streetsongs," as well as the PBS TV version. He has served as press agent for such Broadway shows as "The Lieutenant" (Tony nominee for "Best Musical"), "Hair," "Fire!", "The Mother Lover," "The Dozens," "Gilbert Becaud Sings Love," "Bent," and "Zelda" and off-Broadway's "The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds" (Pulitzer Prize), "Your Own Thing," Elaine May's "Adaptation," Harold Pinter's "Tea Party" and "The Basement," Tom Stoppard's "The Real Inspector Hound," Arrabal's "And They Put Handcuffs on the Flowers," Terrence McNally's "Next," "Bad Habits," "Whiskey" and "Where Has Tommy Flowers Gone?",
numerous Tom Eyen shows including "Women Behind Bars," "The Neon Woman," "The Dirtiest Show in Town" and "The White Whore and the Bit Player," Miriam Colon's Puerto Rican Traveling Theater, and
several Charles Ludlam productions including "Camille," "Bluebeard," "Stage Blood," "Hot Ice," "Caprice," "The Ventriloquist's Wife," "The Elephant Girl" and "Der Ring Gott Ferblondgett." He has also produced several Grammy-nominated record albums and managed and/or promoted such legendary singers as Anita O'Day, Ruth Brown, La Vern Baker, Johnnie Ray, Patti Page, Yma Sumac, Maxine Sullivan, Ella Mae Morse, Hadda Brooks and Nellie Lutcher.