Michael Jackowitz

Michael is the Executive Producer of a number of new musicals, including: the American Premiere of My Fairytale, a musical about Hans Christian Andersen by award-winning composer Stephen Schwartz at PCPA TheaterFest for the 2011 Centennial celebration of Solvang, CA; Séance on a Wet Afternoon the new opera by Stephen Schwartz, OSB, NYC Opera; Daddy Long Legs by John Caird and Paul Gordon; The Best Is Yet To Come: The Music of Cy Coleman devised and directed by David Zippel, Rubicon Theatre Company/59E59 Off-Broadway; Abyssinia: Praise Singer, a musical at Hackney Empire in London. Upcoming productions include Tuck Everlasting (Broadhurst 2016) and The Hawaiian Goddess (Honolulu 2018).

Michael was a Producer of the 50th Anniversary revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying on Broadway starring Daniel Radcliffe (8 Tony Award Nominations, including BEST MUSICAL REVIVAL) and the Menier Chocolate Factory revival of Pippin.

PAST PRODUCTIONS:

The Food Chain by Nicky Silver at the Westside Theater directed by Robert Falls and starring Hope Davis and Phyllis Newman; AVOW by Bill C. Davis (Mass Appeal) at the Century Theater; tick, tick…BOOM!, by Jonathan Larson directed by Scott Schwartz, at the Coronet Theatre in Los Angeles following its successful run at the Rubicon Theatre in Ventura, CA; I, Do, I Do at Queens Theater in the Park with Donna McKechnie, My Antonia, an adaptation of the Willa Cather novel by Scott Schwartz at Rubicon Theatre Company and 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 (A Catered Affair) directed by Daisy Prince (2008 Santa Barbara Independent Award: Best Director), with vocal arrangements by Jason Robert Brown at Rubicon Theatre Company.

Michael is founder and managing member of WitzEnd Productions Productions with Marvin Kahan, Jeffrey Grove and Laura Dean Koch and is a graduate of the Commercial Theater Institute’s Producing Seminar, class of 1996. He continues to serve as Rubicon Theatre’s Director of New Work.