Mike Isaacson
MIKE ISAACSON (Producer/Presenter, Fox Associates/Fox Theatricals) For 14 seasons, Isaacson has presented the U.S. Bank Broadway Series, bringing more than 100 Broadway productions to The Fabulous Fox. In May 2010, he received the Broadway League's Samuel J. L'Hommedieu Award for Outstanding Achievement in Presenter Management, the youngest person ever to receive the award. He has served on the Board of Governors, the Executive Committee and the Governance Committee of The Broadway League. Mike Isaacson heads Fox Theatricals with Kristin Caskey. In June, they won a 2010 Tony Award for Best Play for Red. Last week, they opened the U.S. National Tour of the Seven Fingers production of TRACES, of which Chris Jones of The Chicago Tribune wrote "Extraordinary...A gorgeously pure, loose and personal circus." They produced the current national tour of 9 to 5 - The Musical directed and choreographed by Jeff Calhoun. Their next musical Bring It On premiers in January at Atlanta's Alliance Theatre. They produced the Broadway, National Tour and West End productions of Legally Blonde - The Musical (Seven 2009 Tony Award Nominations) which made history as the first Broadway musical broadcast on MTV. They produced the Broadway, national tour and London productions of Thoroughly Modern Millie, for which they received a 2002 Tony Award for Best Musical. Other Fox Theatricals productions include: The Seagull starring Kristin Scott Thomas and Peter Sarsgaard; One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest starring Gary Sinise (2001 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play); and 'Night Mother starring Edie Falco and Brenda Blethyn (2004); Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman starring Brian Dennehy (four 1999 Tony Awards including Best Revival of a Play); You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown (two 1999 Tony Awards), and Jekyll & Hyde (also first national tour). They developed and produced Everyday Rapture (two 2010 Tony nominations) and Christopher Diaz's The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Diety which premiered at New York's Second Stage Theatre this Spring. Future projects include Mad Hot Ballroom. Isaacson serves on the Executive and Investment committee of the Independent Presenters Network (IPN), which is a producer of this season's Tony Award Winning Revival of La Cage Aux Folles. For the IPN, he served as producer for the Broadway productions of Ragtime, Spamalot, and The Color Purple. For his work on Spamalot, he received a 2005 Tony Award. Other IPN productions include Doctor Dolittle starring Tommy Tune; Bombay Dreams, Starlight Express and the London production of Edward Scissorhands. He has been a theatre critic for The Riverfront Times, as well as a feature writer for The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Stagebill, and St. Louis Magazine. He regularly lectures at the Commercial Theatre Institute in New York and wrote a chapter for its Guide to Producing Plays and Musicals. Isaacson has a B.A. in English and an M.B.A. from St. Louis University. Bio as of December, 2010. American Theatre Wing programs, interviews and/or credits include: Working in the Theatre (video) Getting the Show on the Road - December, 2010 - Watch now.