Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me - Broadway Creative Team

Daniel Goldfarb is a playwright, librettist, television writer/producer, screenwriter, and educator. His new play, Men’s Health, was recently released on Audible starring Tony Shalhoub, Santino Fontana, Laura Benanti, Dianne Guerrero, and Tom Hollander, directed by Scott Ellis (audible.com/menshealth). His other plays include Legacy (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Cradle and All (Manhattan Theatre Club); The Retributionists (Playwrights Horizons); Modern Orthodox (Dodger Stages); Sarah, Sarah (Manhattan Theatre Club); and Adam Baum And The Jew Movie (Blue Light Theatre Company- Oppenheimer Award, Canadian Authors Association Award, Hull-Warriner Award Finalist). His musicals include Piece of My Heart (Signature Theatre); Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me (Broadway); ... read more Marc Shaiman is a composer/lyricist/arranger/performer working in films, television, musical theater and recordings. He has won several honors, including a Tony, an Emmy, a Grammy, plus seven Oscar nominations. For "Mary Poppins Returns" he was nominated for two Oscars, a BAFTA, a Golden Globe and a Grammy. His other Oscar nominations have been for “Sleepless In Seattle", “Patch Adams”, “The First Wives Club”, "The American President" and “South Park-Bigger, Longer & Uncut”. Other film credits include “Beaches”, “When Harry Met Sally”, “City Slickers”, “The Addams Family”, “Sister Act”, “A Few Good Men”, "Hocus Pocus", “The Bucket List” and "Hairspray". He and ... read more Martin appeared on Broadway in Little Me (Tony Award, OCC Award), The Goodbye Girl (Tony Award nomination, Theatre World Award, OCC Award, Jeffrey Jefferson Award) and in Promises, Promises (Encores!). In 2006, he returned to Broadway starring in his own one man show (even though it had a cast of four that rarely mentioned) Fame Becomes Me. In L.A., he appeared in Lawrence Kasdan's production of Four Dogs and A Bone and The Producers. In 1982, he joined the SCTV Comedy Network, where his work garnered an Emmy Award and five Emmy nominations. On 'Saturday Night Live,' his standout performances ... read more Wittman was raised in Nanuet, New York, graduated from Nanuet Senior High School in 1972 and attended Emerson College in Boston for two years before leaving to pursue a career in musical theatre in New York City. While directing a show for a Greenwich Village club he met songwriter and composer Marc Shaiman, and the two became collaborators and professional partners. While Shaiman wrote for television shows, including Saturday Night Live, Wittman directed concerts for such artists as Bette Midler, Christine Ebersole, Raquel Welch, Dame Edna Everage, and Lypsinka, among others. In 2002, Shaiman and Wittman wrote the music and lyrics ... read more