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Mandy Patinkin in Concert: Being Alive with Adam Ben-David on piano

Mandy Patinkin has been fortunate to carve out a varied career including theater, the concert stage, film, television, and as a recording artist. In his 1980 Broadway debut, Mandy won a Tony Award for his role as Che in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Evita, directed by Hal Prince, and was nominated in 1984 for his starring role as George in the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical, Sunday in the Park with George. Mandy’s other stage credits include Compulsion, Paradise Found, The Tempest, Enemy of the People, The Wild Party, Falsettos, The Secret Garden, The Winter’s Tale, The Knife, Leave It to Beaver is Dead, Rebel Women, Hamlet, Trelawney of the ‘Wells, ’ The Shadow Box, The Split, Savages, and Henry IV, Part I.

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In 1989, Mandy began his concert career at Joseph Papp’s Public Theater in New York City. Since then, he has toured (and continues to tour) his various solo concerts across North America, in London’s West End, through Australia and New Zealand, as well as on Broadway and Off-Broadway. His newest solo concert is Mandy Patinkin in Concert: Being Alive

In addition to solo concerts, Mandy has created collaborations with artists including opera star Nathan Gunn in An Evening with Mandy Patinkin & Nathan Gunn, touring the US, Australia and New Zealand; with his dear friend Patti LuPone in An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin which has toured since 2007 and played Broadway in 2012; Bridges, a concert with musicians from various countries in the Middle East; The Last Two People on Earth: An Apocalyptic Vaudeville, with Taylor Mac, and direction by Susan Stroman; and most recently with his wife Kathryn Grody in An Evening with Mandy Patinkin & Kathryn Grody, moderated by their son Gideon Grody-Patinkin.

Feature films include Before You Know It, Life Itself, Wonder, Smurfs: The Lost Village, The Queen of Spain, Ali and Nino, Wish I Was Here, The Wind Rises, Everybody’s Hero, The Choking Man, Pinero, The Adventures of Elmo In Grouchland, Lulu on the Bridge, Men with Guns, The Princess Bride, Yentl, The Music of Chance, Daniel, Ragtime, Impromptu, The Doctor, Alien Nation, Dick Tracy, The House on Carroll Street, True Colors, and Maxie

In television, Mandy won a 1995 Emmy Award for his performance in the CBS series Chicago Hope, and starred in the CBS series Criminal Minds and in the Showtime Original Series Dead Like Me, and Homeland as CIA Agent Saul Berenson.

As a recording artist on CBS Records, Mandy released two solo albums, Mandy Patinkin and Mandy Patinkin In Concert: Dress Casual. On the Nonesuch label, Mandy has recorded

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Children + Art, Experiment, Oscar & Steve, Kidults and Mandy Patinkin Sings Sondheim In 1998 he debuted his most personal project, Mamaloshen, a collection of traditional, classic and contemporary songs sung entirely in Yiddish. The recording of Mamaloshen won the Deutschen Schallplattenpreis (Germany’s equivalent of the GRAMMY® Award).

As diverse as his professional life has been, Mandy’s education in the field of social activism has been even more varied and continues to evolve. He has helped raise funds for organizations dear to his heart including Brady Campaign, PAX, Doctors Without Borders, Association to Benefit Children, American Jewish World Service, Search For Common Ground, National Dance Institute, and ACLU. Mandy is a board member of the Arava Institute and continues to work with the International Rescue Committee (IRC), highlighting the plight of refugees worldwide. Mandy resides in New York City with his wife, actress and writer Kathryn Grody.

ADAM BEN-DAVID has been living his “bucket list” dream of accompanying Mandy Patinkin in concert since 2016. He has been active as an arranger, music director, conductor and pianist on Broadway for the past 25 years. Adam’s credits include: The Book of Mormon, Jersey Boys, Spring Awakening, Wicked, High Fidelity, The Light in the Piazza, Bombay Dreams, Aida, and Once Upon a Mattress. He has accompanied numerous artists including Kelli O’Hara, Jarrod Spector, James Taylor, Patti LuPone, and Megan Hilty. Adam is currently composing a theatrical adaptation of the children’s classic From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. He is a graduate of the Juilliard School.

NATHAN W. SCHEUER (Lighting Designer) is a lighting and projection designer based out of NYC and LA. Select credits include Kinky Boots, Singing in the Rain, Jesus Christ Superstar, Aida, Mamma Mia, Les Misérables (The Muny), A Taste of Things

to Come (Broadway in Chicago), After the Curtain (Travis Wall’s Shaping Sound), Oslo, Heisenberg, Admissions (The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis), E/Space, Pretty Peculiar Things, Within Without, Carry Me Anew (Barak Ballet), Jerome Robbins’ Broadway, Seussical (TUTS), Upon This Handful of Earth, Tosca (NYOS), Water by the Spoonful (TheatreSquared), Beneath One’s Dignity, The Sleeping Beauty (LA Ballet), Spamalot (Arkansas Rep). Nathan was the associate designer for Manilow on Broadway and has designed for Selena Gomez, Alice Cooper, and Toby Keith, as well as having worked with companies such as the NYC Ballet, Paris Opera Ballet, Lincoln Center Festival, Center Theatre Group, San Francisco Opera, and Spectrum Dance. Proud member of USA 829.

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is an Emmy Award winner for his work on Jesus Christ Superstar Live! He has designed and engineered many other live telecast events such as Annie Live!, The Democratic Presidential Debates (both NBC and CBS), The NBA Restart: A Brand New Game, The Wiz Live!, Showtime at the Apollo, America’s Got Talent, The X Factor, The Tony Awards, The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, and numerous other specials. Dan has created studio designs for “The Late Show” (with David Letterman as well as Steven Colbert), “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver,” “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire,” “Survivor,” “The View,” and “The Today Show.” For over 30 years, Dan was responsible for the sound design and music production for the famed Radio City Christmas Spectacular and its touring company Christmas Across America. He has designed theatrical and multi-media shows in the US, Europe, and Japan. Recent credits include A Taste of Things to Come; The Last Two People on Earth: An Apocalyptic Vaudeville; An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin; Sinatra – His Voice, His World, His Way; and John Lithgow’s Stories By Heart. Dan is also an accomplished flutist and a graduate of the Eastman School of Music and has performed

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RICHARD HESTER (Production Supervisor) has been a stage manager and production supervisor for more than 40 years. On Broadway he was the Jersey Boys Production Stage Manager and then spent 16 years staging and maintaining productions in the US as well as all over the world. In addition to Mandy Patinkin’s concerts, Richard is also the Production Supervisor for Patti LuPone’s concert tour. Other Broadway credits include Summer, the Donna Summer Musical; Wicked; The Phantom of the Opera; A Delicate Balance; Titanic; Cabaret as well as Annie Get Your Gun and Gypsy both starring Bernadette Peters. Internationally, he supervised West Side Story in Tokyo’s StageAround Theatre. Twentythree years ago, with Bernadette Peters and Mary Tyler Moore, he helped found and produce Broadway Barks! an annual animal adoption event. His first book, Hold, Please: Stage Managing a Pandemic, was published in March of 2022. richardhester.com

JULIA JONES (Production Stage Manager) career spans 30 years as a Stage Manager for theatres across the country, including 20+ years as a Stage Manager on over 15 major Broadway shows. In addition to Mandy Patinkin’s current concert tour Being Alive, Julia toured with his most recent concert tour Mandy Patinkin in Concert: Diaries. Julia’s Broadway credits include Back to the Future; MJ The Musical; The Illusionists –Magic of the Holidays; Manilow Broadway; Dave Chappelle Live on Broadway; Criss Angel Raw – The Mindfreak Unplugged; Regina Spektor: Live on Broadway; Mel Brooks on Broadway; Pure Yanni; Morrissey; SpongeBob

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L. GLENN POPPLETON (Exclusive Tour Direction) also represents the tours of A Christmas Story, The Musical; A Conversation with Kathryn Grody and Mandy Patinkin; and the group5productions.com roster of Broadway concerts. Past tours include Cathy Rigby is Peter Pan; Disney’s Beauty and the Beast; and Monty Python’s Spamalot

STACI LEVINE (Producer) has produced on Broadway, Off-Broadway, across North America, London’s West End, Australia, and New Zealand. Current productions include Patti LuPone’s concert tour Don’t Monkey with Broadway; Mandy’s Patinkin’s concert tour Being Alive; the podcast Radio Play Revival; and Arlekin Players Theatre production of The Orchard starring Mikhail Baryshnikov and Jessica Hecht. Staci recently produced the 2023 Drama Desk Awards. Previous productions include An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin; Lisa Lampanelli’s tour of Losin’ It!; John Lithgow’s solo show Stories By Heart; the musical A Taste of Things to Come with direction and choreography by Lorin Latarro; The Last Two People on Earth: An Apocalyptic Vaudeville, starring Mandy Patinkin and Taylor Mac with direction & choreography by Susan Stroman; and Mandy Patinkin’s solo concerts: Dress Casual, Mamaloshen, Celebrating Sondheim, and Diaries. Staci is a member of The Broadway League.

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