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Marc Routh
Marc Routh is a theatrical producer, entrepreneur and professor.
Routh was born in Youngstown, Ohio, and raised in nearby Liberty Township. He graduated from Liberty High School in 1980.
As a child he performed in musicals in summer stock, community theatre, and children's theatre productions, including roles in Mame, Gypsy, Bye, Bye, Birdie, Oliver, Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland, and A Christmas Carol. He won a scholarship to a musical theatre program at Kent State University. With acting partner Judith Sewickley, he placed 7th in an Ohio State duet acting competition.
Routh served as a management assistant under mentor Bentley Lenhoff at the Youngstown Playhouse and took classes at Youngstown State University while attending high school.
His college years at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill also included positions as company manager and director of Audience Development for PlayMakers Repertory Company, and during the summers he served as administrative assistant for Horse Cave Theatre in Horse Cave, Kentucky, and as the company manager and administrative assistant under Jean Passanante and Lloyd Richards for the O’Neill Theater Center in New York and Connecticut.
He began his career in New York in 1984 as a management assistant for Richard Horner and Lynne Stuart, working on productions of Kennedy at Colonus and Lady Day, followed by a year working for publicist Milly Schoenbaum in the office of producer Morton Gottlieb, where the productions he worked on included the original production of Little Shop of Horrors, which he would later produce in its Broadway premiere. It was during his work as the press agent for the original off-Broadway production of Orphans at the Westside Arts Theatre that he first met Richard Frankel. Frankel was producing Penn & Teller which was playing in the downstairs theatre and Orphans was playing in the upstairs theatre. Their first meeting was to negotiate lobby space since Penn & Teller had opened first and has wallpapered the shared lobby with Penn & Teller posters.
Routh began working with Frankel as an assistant later that year, subsequently joining Frankel as a manager with Richard Frankel Productions and eventually as a producing partner with Frankel, Thomas Viertel, and Steven Baruch.
Routh's first producing credit was Three Ways Home by Casey Kurtti in 1988, starring Mary McDonnell, S. Epatha Merkerson, and Malcolm Jamal-Warner, for which he served as executive producer. Additional off Broadway credits include Stomp, Marvin's Room, and Jeffrey as executive producer, Family Secrets, Bomb-itty of Errors, Communicating Doors, Death Defying Acts, Ennio, Love Letters, Necessary Targets and Wild Men! as general manager, and Song of Singapore, Later Life, Bubbe Meises, Bubbie Stories, and Das Barbecu as associate producer. Routh's off-Broadway producing credits include The Immersive Great Gatsby, Tap Dogs, The Mystery of Irma Vep, The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told, Three-For-All, My Old Lady, Inside Out, If Memory Serves, Mnemonic, The Water Coolers, Cookin’, The Fantasticks (revival), Mayumana’s Be, Old Jews Telling Jokes, Murder Ballad and the revival of Smokey Joe's Cafe.
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Marc Routh
Marc Routh is a theatrical producer, entrepreneur and professor.
Routh was born in Youngstown, Ohio, and raised in nearby Liberty Township. He graduated from Liberty High School in 1980.
As a child he performed in musicals in summer stock, community theatre, and children's theatre productions, including roles in Mame, Gypsy, Bye, Bye, Birdie, Oliver, Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland, and A Christmas Carol. He won a scholarship to a musical theatre program at Kent State University. With acting partner Judith Sewickley, he placed 7th in an Ohio State duet acting competition.
Routh served as a management assistant under mentor Bentley Lenhoff at the Youngstown Playhouse and took classes at Youngstown State University while attending high school.
His college years at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill also included positions as company manager and director of Audience Development for PlayMakers Repertory Company, and during the summers he served as administrative assistant for Horse Cave Theatre in Horse Cave, Kentucky, and as the company manager and administrative assistant under Jean Passanante and Lloyd Richards for the O’Neill Theater Center in New York and Connecticut.
He began his career in New York in 1984 as a management assistant for Richard Horner and Lynne Stuart, working on productions of Kennedy at Colonus and Lady Day, followed by a year working for publicist Milly Schoenbaum in the office of producer Morton Gottlieb, where the productions he worked on included the original production of Little Shop of Horrors, which he would later produce in its Broadway premiere. It was during his work as the press agent for the original off-Broadway production of Orphans at the Westside Arts Theatre that he first met Richard Frankel. Frankel was producing Penn & Teller which was playing in the downstairs theatre and Orphans was playing in the upstairs theatre. Their first meeting was to negotiate lobby space since Penn & Teller had opened first and has wallpapered the shared lobby with Penn & Teller posters.
Routh began working with Frankel as an assistant later that year, subsequently joining Frankel as a manager with Richard Frankel Productions and eventually as a producing partner with Frankel, Thomas Viertel, and Steven Baruch.
Routh's first producing credit was Three Ways Home by Casey Kurtti in 1988, starring Mary McDonnell, S. Epatha Merkerson, and Malcolm Jamal-Warner, for which he served as executive producer. Additional off Broadway credits include Stomp, Marvin's Room, and Jeffrey as executive producer, Family Secrets, Bomb-itty of Errors, Communicating Doors, Death Defying Acts, Ennio, Love Letters, Necessary Targets and Wild Men! as general manager, and Song of Singapore, Later Life, Bubbe Meises, Bubbie Stories, and Das Barbecu as associate producer. Routh's off-Broadway producing credits include The Immersive Great Gatsby, Tap Dogs, The Mystery of Irma Vep, The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told, Three-For-All, My Old Lady, Inside Out, If Memory Serves, Mnemonic, The Water Coolers, Cookin’, The Fantasticks (revival), Mayumana’s Be, Old Jews Telling Jokes, Murder Ballad and the revival of Smokey Joe's Cafe.