Marcia Milgrom Dodge
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Marcia Milgrom Dodge is an American director, choreographer and writer for the stage. After working in regional theatre, off-Broadway and elsewhere for thirty years, Dodge directed and choreographed her first Broadway
production, a revival of Ragtime
in 2009. The production received 7 Tony Award
Nominations including one for Dodge for Best Director of a Musical. Her Kennedy Center production of Ragtime
received four 2010 Helen Hayes Awards including one for her for Best Director, Resident Musical.
, grew up in Southfield, Michigan
and attended Vandenberg and Adlai Stevenson Elementary Schools and Birney Junior High graduating from Southfield-Lathrup High School
in 1973. As a child, she took dance lessons at the Julie Adler School of Dance in Oak Park, Michigan
. She is the daughter of Myron and Jacqueline Milgrom, and her sisters are Carole Lasser, Paula Milgrom and Marianne Milgrom Bloomberg. Dodge received her degree in Speech Communication and Theatre at the University of Michigan
, Ann Arbor, graduating in 1977. Upon graduation, Dodge moved to New York City pursuing a career as a choreographer.
revival of the musical Ragtime
. The Guardian noted Dodge's "impassioned staging" of Ragtime. Peter Marks in an article summing up the fate of the Ragtime revival, noted: "Marcia Milgrom Dodge, the director-choreographer...came up with a sleekly beautiful concept for a show with a complex, interwoven narrative about blacks, Jews and white Anglo-Saxons in New York at the turn of the 20th century: She placed the entire enterprise on a single trellised set and put the myriad characters, fictional and historical, more resolutely front and center -- Ragtime not as a history lesson, but as a story about families." She is the "first woman to direct a major musical produced by the Kennedy Center." The Kennedy Center production of Ragtime was nominated for six 2010 Helen Hayes Awards and won four: Outstanding Resident Musical (Winner); Outstanding Director, Resident Musical: Marcia Milgrom Dodge (Winner); Outstanding Musical Direction, Resident Production: James Moore; Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Musical: Quentin Earl Darrington; Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Musical: Christiane Noll (Winner); Outstanding Costume Design, Resident Production: Santo Loquasto & Jimm Halliday (Winners). The Broadway transfer of the production was honored with 7 Tony nominations including one for Dodge for Best Direction.
Dodge was the Associate Choreographer for the Broadway musical High Society (1998). Off Broadway she was the choreographer for Life is Not A Doris Day Movie (1982), Romance Language (1984), Romance in Hard Times (Public Theater
1989), Closer Than Ever
(1989), The Waves (1990), The Loman Family Picnic (Manhattan Theatre Club
1993), director/choreographer for Radio Gals (John Houseman Theatre, 1996), Seussical
for Theatreworks USA (Lucille Lortel Theatre
) (2007) (receiving a Lucille Lortel Award nomination for Outstanding Choreography) and consultant for Cookin (Minetta Lane Theatre, 2004).
In regional theatre Dodge was the director/choreographer for How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
at Reprise Theatre Company in Los Angeles, the Bay Street Theatre, Sag Harbor, NY, productions of Simeon's Gift, The Who's Tommy, Once On This Island
, and Hair
and director of Fit To Print. At the Riverside Theatre, Vero Beach, Florida she was the director/choreographer for , Dames At Sea
, Anything Goes
and the director of Blithe Spirit
. She has directed and/or choreographed many productions at the Music Circus, Sacramento
, California, including The Unsinkable Molly Brown, with Susan Egan, South Pacific
with Kerry O'Malley (2006) and Guys and Dolls (2009) with Gary Beach
.
World premieres include "Knight Life: The Girl Who would Be King" by Robert Sternin, Prudence Fraser & Jeff Barry (Riverside Theatre); Rupert Holmes' "Thumbs" starring Kathie Lee Gifford and Diana Canova (Helen Hayes Theatre Company); "Cookin'" (New Victory, Minetta Lane, South Korea and International Tour); "One Foot On The Floor" by Jeffrey Hatcher (also conceived, Denver Center Theatre Co.); "Off-Key" by Bill C. Davis and Richard Adler (George Street Playhouse); "Elmer Gantry" by John Bishop, Mel Marvin & Robert Satuloff (LaJolla Playhouse) and "Casino Paradise" by William Bolcom & Arnold Weinstein (American Music Theatre Festival.)
Dodge directed several productions of Ain't Misbehavin', first at Virginia Stage in 1991, followed by River Arts Rep, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Cleveland Play House, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Huntington Theatre, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, and the Philadelphia Drama Guild, receiving 2 Barrymore Award Nominations for Outstanding Choreography & Best Musical.
For the Cape Playhouse she directed "Crimes Of The Heart"starring Sandy Duncan, Accomplice with Stephanie Zimbalist & Richard Kind and Angel Street starring David McCallum, Jean LeClerc and Mia Dillon.
As resident director of the Phoenix Theatre Company at SUNY Purchase Dodge directed and choreographed Ken Ludwig's "Sullivan & Gilbert" starring George Grizzard and "High Spirits" and she directed "The Crucifer Of Blood" and "There's One In Every Marriage."
At the Arena Stage
, Washington, D.C.
, she choreographed On the Town (1989), Closer Than Ever, Merrily We Roll Along
(1990), and Of Thee I Sing
(1992) (Helen Hayes Award
Nomination for Outstanding Choreography).
Dodge has had exciting collaborations with Terrence McNally, Lynn Ahrens & Stephen Flaherty, Larry Gatlin, Julie Andrews & Ian Fraser, Rupert Holmes, Stephen Sondheim, Robert Falls & John Logan, Des McAnuff, Richard Adler & Bill C. Davis, Douglas C. Wager, Gregory Boyd, Michael Cristofer & Joanne Woodward.
Dodge choreographed Sullivan and Gilbert
at the Kennedy Center in 1983 and directed Tell Me on a Sunday
(2002) with Alice Ripley at the Kennedy Center.
For Television, she choreographed SESAME STREET (Emmy Award-winning episode "The Tango Festival") and REMEMBER WENN for AMC. Video: Elmo's World- Wild Wild West featuring Bill Irwin, Michael Jeter & Kristin Chenoweth (Sony Wonder.)
for a new musical Quanah by Larry Gatlin
and Anthony Dodge, which received a staged reading at Pace University
in January 2010. The musical Hats: The Musical, for which she wrote the book with Anthony Dodge, was presented by the Willows Theatre Company, Martinez, California
, from November 23, 2009 through January 10, 2010. Hats also ran in 2007 in several venues, including Las Vegas, Denver, New Orleans and Chicago starring Melissa Manchester
. Anthony Dodge wrote "Free Burt Lancaster" and Venus Flytrap and Marcia also directed readings of both plays at the Bay Street Theatre and she directed a reading of "Venus Flytrap" at the LGBT Center in NYC for Orange Hanky Productions in June 2008. The Active Theater Company will produce the play in November, 2010 in NYC. Marcia and husband Anthony Dodge wrote their first play, the Edgar Award-nominated Sherlock Holmes & The West End Horror, produced at the Bay Street Theatre in 2002, and later produced by the Asolo Theatre, Sarasota, Florida and the Pioneer Theatre Company, Utah, (2005.) Marcia directed all three productions. The play was published in 2006 by New York play publisher Playscripts, Inc.
she directed & choreographed Drood. At CAP21/NYU--Divorce Me Darling, David Krane's Times Square, Drood and Merrily We Roll Along; also at SUNY-Buffalo. At Fordham College--Of Thee I Sing and Guys & Dolls; and Pacific Overtures at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. She has been on the faculty of The American Musical and Dramatic Academy since 1996, and was on the faculty of Collaborative Arts Project 21 (CAP21) at NYU Tisch School of the Arts
from 1996-2002.
Best Revival of a Musical;
Best Direction of a Musical: Marcia Milgrom Dodge;
Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical: Christiane Noll;
Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical: Bobby Steggert;
Best Scenic Design of a Musical: Derek McLane;
Best Costume Design of a Musical: Santo Loquasto;
Best Lighting Design of a Musical: Donald Holder
NINE 2010 DRAMA DESK AWARD NOMINATIONS
Outstanding Revival of a Musical;
Outstanding Director of a Musical: Marcia Milgrom Dodge;
Outstanding Actress in a Musical: Christiane Noll;
Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical: Bobby Steggert;
Outstanding Choreography: Marcia Milgrom Dodge;
Outstanding Orchestrations: William David Brohn;
Outstanding Set Design: Derek McLane;
Outstanding Costume Design: Santo Loquasto;
Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical-WINNER!
SIX 2010 HELEN HAYES AWARD NOMINATIONS
Outstanding Resident Musical: Ragtime, The Kennedy Center WINNER!;
Outstanding Director, Resident Musical: Marcia Milgrom Dodge WINNER!;
Outstanding Musical Direction, Resident Production: James Moore;
Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Musical: Quentin Earl Darrington;
Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Musical: Christiane Noll WINNER!;
Outstanding Costume Design, Resident Prod.: Santo Loquasto & Jimm Halliday WINNER!
TWO 2010 ASTAIRE AWARD NOMINATIONS
Choreographer: Marcia Milgrom Dodge;
Female Dancer: Savannah Wise
ONE 2010 DRAMA LEAGUE NOMINATION
Distinguished Revival of a Musical;
Distinguished Performance Award: Bobby Steggert
2010 THEATRE WORLD AWARD
Stephanie Umoh
2010 DOROTHY LOUDON "STARBABY" AWARD
Bobby Steggert
Broadway theatre
Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...
production, a revival of Ragtime
Ragtime (musical)
Ragtime is a musical with a book by Terrence McNally, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, and music by Stephen Flaherty.Based on the 1975 novel by E. L. Doctorow, Ragtime tells the story of three groups in America, represented by Coalhouse Walker Jr., a Harlem musician; Mother, the matriarch of a WASP family in...
in 2009. The production received 7 Tony Award
Tony Award
The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway...
Nominations including one for Dodge for Best Director of a Musical. Her Kennedy Center production of Ragtime
Ragtime (musical)
Ragtime is a musical with a book by Terrence McNally, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, and music by Stephen Flaherty.Based on the 1975 novel by E. L. Doctorow, Ragtime tells the story of three groups in America, represented by Coalhouse Walker Jr., a Harlem musician; Mother, the matriarch of a WASP family in...
received four 2010 Helen Hayes Awards including one for her for Best Director, Resident Musical.
Early years
Dodge was born in Detroit, MichiganDetroit, Michigan
Detroit is the major city among the primary cultural, financial, and transportation centers in the Metro Detroit area, a region of 5.2 million people. As the seat of Wayne County, the city of Detroit is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan and serves as a major port on the Detroit River...
, grew up in Southfield, Michigan
Southfield, Michigan
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which 0.04% is water. The main branch of the River Rouge runs through Southfield. The city is bounded to the south by Eight Mile Road, its western border is Inkster Road, and to the east it is bounded by Greenfield Road...
and attended Vandenberg and Adlai Stevenson Elementary Schools and Birney Junior High graduating from Southfield-Lathrup High School
Southfield-Lathrup High School
Southfield-Lathrup High School is a senior high school in Lathrup Village, Michigan, United States. It is the second oldest of three high schools in the Southfield Public Schools district, the oldest being Southfield High School, and the youngest being University High School...
in 1973. As a child, she took dance lessons at the Julie Adler School of Dance in Oak Park, Michigan
Oak Park, Michigan
As of the census of 2000, there were 29,793 people, 11,104 households, and 7,595 families residing in the city. The population density was 5,863.8 persons per square mile . There were 11,370 housing units at an average density of 2,263.9 per square mile...
. She is the daughter of Myron and Jacqueline Milgrom, and her sisters are Carole Lasser, Paula Milgrom and Marianne Milgrom Bloomberg. Dodge received her degree in Speech Communication and Theatre at the University of Michigan
University of Michigan
The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...
, Ann Arbor, graduating in 1977. Upon graduation, Dodge moved to New York City pursuing a career as a choreographer.
Director/Choreographer
Dodge is the director/choreographer of the 2009 Kennedy Center and BroadwayBroadway theatre
Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...
revival of the musical Ragtime
Ragtime (musical)
Ragtime is a musical with a book by Terrence McNally, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, and music by Stephen Flaherty.Based on the 1975 novel by E. L. Doctorow, Ragtime tells the story of three groups in America, represented by Coalhouse Walker Jr., a Harlem musician; Mother, the matriarch of a WASP family in...
. The Guardian noted Dodge's "impassioned staging" of Ragtime. Peter Marks in an article summing up the fate of the Ragtime revival, noted: "Marcia Milgrom Dodge, the director-choreographer...came up with a sleekly beautiful concept for a show with a complex, interwoven narrative about blacks, Jews and white Anglo-Saxons in New York at the turn of the 20th century: She placed the entire enterprise on a single trellised set and put the myriad characters, fictional and historical, more resolutely front and center -- Ragtime not as a history lesson, but as a story about families." She is the "first woman to direct a major musical produced by the Kennedy Center." The Kennedy Center production of Ragtime was nominated for six 2010 Helen Hayes Awards and won four: Outstanding Resident Musical (Winner); Outstanding Director, Resident Musical: Marcia Milgrom Dodge (Winner); Outstanding Musical Direction, Resident Production: James Moore; Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Musical: Quentin Earl Darrington; Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Musical: Christiane Noll (Winner); Outstanding Costume Design, Resident Production: Santo Loquasto & Jimm Halliday (Winners). The Broadway transfer of the production was honored with 7 Tony nominations including one for Dodge for Best Direction.
Dodge was the Associate Choreographer for the Broadway musical High Society (1998). Off Broadway she was the choreographer for Life is Not A Doris Day Movie (1982), Romance Language (1984), Romance in Hard Times (Public Theater
Public Theater
The Public Theater is a New York City arts organization founded as The Shakespeare Workshop in 1954 by Joseph Papp, with the intention of showcasing the works of up-and-coming playwrights and performers. It is headquartered at 425 Lafayette Street in the former Astor Library in the East Village...
1989), Closer Than Ever
Closer Than Ever
Closer Than Ever is a musical revue in two acts, with words by Richard Maltby, Jr. and music by David Shire. The revue contains no dialogue, and Maltby and Shire have described this show as a "bookless book musical"...
(1989), The Waves (1990), The Loman Family Picnic (Manhattan Theatre Club
Manhattan Theatre Club
Manhattan Theatre Club is a theater company located in New York City. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Lynne Meadow and Executive Producer Barry Grove, Manhattan Theatre Club has grown since its founding in 1970 from an Off-Off Broadway showcase into one of the country’s most acclaimed...
1993), director/choreographer for Radio Gals (John Houseman Theatre, 1996), Seussical
Seussical
is a musical by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty based on the books of Dr. Seuss that debuted on Broadway in 2000. The play's story is a rather complex amalgamation of many of Seuss's most famous books. After a Broadway run, the production spawned two US national tours and a UK tour...
for Theatreworks USA (Lucille Lortel Theatre
Lucille Lortel Theatre
The Lucille Lortel Theatre is an off-Broadway playhouse located at 121 Christopher Street in New York City's Greenwich Village.The venue was built in 1926 as a 590-seat movie theater called the New Hudson, later known as Hudson Playhouse...
) (2007) (receiving a Lucille Lortel Award nomination for Outstanding Choreography) and consultant for Cookin (Minetta Lane Theatre, 2004).
In regional theatre Dodge was the director/choreographer for How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying is a musical with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock, and Willie Gilbert, based on Shepherd Mead's 1952 book of the same name....
at Reprise Theatre Company in Los Angeles, the Bay Street Theatre, Sag Harbor, NY, productions of Simeon's Gift, The Who's Tommy, Once On This Island
Once On This Island
Once on This Island is a one-act musical with a book and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens and music by Stephen Flaherty. Based on the novel My Love, My Love by Rosa Guy, set in the French Antilles in the Caribbean Sea...
, and Hair
Hair (musical)
Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical is a rock musical with a book and lyrics by James Rado and Gerome Ragni and music by Galt MacDermot. A product of the hippie counter-culture and sexual revolution of the 1960s, several of its songs became anthems of the anti-Vietnam War peace movement...
and director of Fit To Print. At the Riverside Theatre, Vero Beach, Florida she was the director/choreographer for , Dames At Sea
Dames at Sea
Dames at Sea is a musical with book and lyrics by George Haimsohn and Robin Miller and music by Jim Wise.The musical is a parody of large, flashy 1930s Busby Berkeley-style movie musicals in which an understudy steps into a role on Broadway and becomes a star...
, Anything Goes
Anything Goes
Anything Goes is a musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter. The original book was a collaborative effort by Guy Bolton and P.G. Wodehouse, heavily revised by the team of Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. The story concerns madcap antics aboard an ocean liner bound from New York to London...
and the director of Blithe Spirit
Blithe Spirit (play)
Blithe Spirit is a comic play written by Noël Coward which takes its title from Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem "To a Skylark" . The play concerns socialite and novelist Charles Condomine, who invites the eccentric medium and clairvoyant, Madame Arcati, to his house to conduct a séance, hoping to...
. She has directed and/or choreographed many productions at the Music Circus, Sacramento
Sacramento, California
Sacramento is the capital city of the U.S. state of California and the county seat of Sacramento County. It is located at the confluence of the Sacramento River and the American River in the northern portion of California's expansive Central Valley. With a population of 466,488 at the 2010 census,...
, California, including The Unsinkable Molly Brown, with Susan Egan, South Pacific
South Pacific (musical)
South Pacific is a musical with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and book by Hammerstein and Joshua Logan. The story draws from James A. Michener's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1947 book Tales of the South Pacific, weaving together characters and elements from several of its...
with Kerry O'Malley (2006) and Guys and Dolls (2009) with Gary Beach
Gary Beach
Gary Beach is an American actor, primarily in Broadway musical theatre.-Biography:Beach was born in Alexandria, Virginia and later went on to graduate from the North Carolina School of the Arts, the same school as Terrence Mann, his Beauty and the Beast costar.Beach and his partner, Jeffrey...
.
World premieres include "Knight Life: The Girl Who would Be King" by Robert Sternin, Prudence Fraser & Jeff Barry (Riverside Theatre); Rupert Holmes' "Thumbs" starring Kathie Lee Gifford and Diana Canova (Helen Hayes Theatre Company); "Cookin'" (New Victory, Minetta Lane, South Korea and International Tour); "One Foot On The Floor" by Jeffrey Hatcher (also conceived, Denver Center Theatre Co.); "Off-Key" by Bill C. Davis and Richard Adler (George Street Playhouse); "Elmer Gantry" by John Bishop, Mel Marvin & Robert Satuloff (LaJolla Playhouse) and "Casino Paradise" by William Bolcom & Arnold Weinstein (American Music Theatre Festival.)
Dodge directed several productions of Ain't Misbehavin', first at Virginia Stage in 1991, followed by River Arts Rep, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Cleveland Play House, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Huntington Theatre, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, and the Philadelphia Drama Guild, receiving 2 Barrymore Award Nominations for Outstanding Choreography & Best Musical.
For the Cape Playhouse she directed "Crimes Of The Heart"starring Sandy Duncan, Accomplice with Stephanie Zimbalist & Richard Kind and Angel Street starring David McCallum, Jean LeClerc and Mia Dillon.
As resident director of the Phoenix Theatre Company at SUNY Purchase Dodge directed and choreographed Ken Ludwig's "Sullivan & Gilbert" starring George Grizzard and "High Spirits" and she directed "The Crucifer Of Blood" and "There's One In Every Marriage."
At the Arena Stage
Arena Stage
Arena Stage is a not-for-profit regional theater based in Southwest Washington, D.C. Its declared mission"is to produce huge plays of all that is passionate, exuberant, profound, deep and dangerous in the American spirit. Arena has broad shoulders and a capacity to produce anything from vast epics...
, Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....
, she choreographed On the Town (1989), Closer Than Ever, Merrily We Roll Along
Merrily We Roll Along (musical)
Merrily We Roll Along is a musical with a book by George Furth and lyrics and music by Stephen Sondheim. It is based on the 1934 play of the same name by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart....
(1990), and Of Thee I Sing
Of Thee I Sing
Of Thee I Sing is a musical with a score by George Gershwin, lyrics by Ira Gershwin and a book by George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind. The musical lampoons American politics; the story concerns John P. Wintergreen, who runs for President of the United States on the "love" platform...
(1992) (Helen Hayes Award
Helen Hayes Award
A Helen Hayes Award is a theater award named for the famed actress Helen Hayes to recognize excellence in professional theater in the Washington, D.C. area since 1983. The awards are managed by Linda Levy Grossman. and presented by the Washington Theatre Awards Society.-Awards:The Helen Hayes...
Nomination for Outstanding Choreography).
Dodge has had exciting collaborations with Terrence McNally, Lynn Ahrens & Stephen Flaherty, Larry Gatlin, Julie Andrews & Ian Fraser, Rupert Holmes, Stephen Sondheim, Robert Falls & John Logan, Des McAnuff, Richard Adler & Bill C. Davis, Douglas C. Wager, Gregory Boyd, Michael Cristofer & Joanne Woodward.
Dodge choreographed Sullivan and Gilbert
Sullivan and Gilbert
Sullivan and Gilbert is a musical by Ken Ludwig with music and lyrics by Gilbert and Sullivan. Sullivan and Gilbert features over 15 Gilbert and Sullivan songs...
at the Kennedy Center in 1983 and directed Tell Me on a Sunday
Tell Me On A Sunday
Tell Me on a Sunday is a musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Don Black. A one-act song cycle, it tells the story of an ordinary English girl from Muswell Hill, who journeys to the United States in search of love...
(2002) with Alice Ripley at the Kennedy Center.
For Television, she choreographed SESAME STREET (Emmy Award-winning episode "The Tango Festival") and REMEMBER WENN for AMC. Video: Elmo's World- Wild Wild West featuring Bill Irwin, Michael Jeter & Kristin Chenoweth (Sony Wonder.)
Writer
She was the dramaturgeDramaturge
A dramaturge or dramaturg is a professional position within a theatre or opera company that deals mainly with research and development of plays or operas...
for a new musical Quanah by Larry Gatlin
Larry Gatlin
Larry Wayne Gatlin is an American country music singer/songwriter. He is perhaps best known for teaming up with his brothers Steve and Rudy in the late 1970s, becoming one of country music's most successful acts of the 1970s and 1980s. Gatlin has had a total of 33 Top 40 singles...
and Anthony Dodge, which received a staged reading at Pace University
Pace University
Pace University is an American private, co-educational, and comprehensive multi-campus university in the New York metropolitan area with campuses in New York City and Westchester County, New York.-Programs:...
in January 2010. The musical Hats: The Musical, for which she wrote the book with Anthony Dodge, was presented by the Willows Theatre Company, Martinez, California
Martinez, California
Martinez is a city and the county seat of Contra Costa County, California, United States. The population was 35,824 at the 2010 census. The downtown is notable for its large number of preserved old buildings...
, from November 23, 2009 through January 10, 2010. Hats also ran in 2007 in several venues, including Las Vegas, Denver, New Orleans and Chicago starring Melissa Manchester
Melissa Manchester
Melissa Manchester is an American singer-songwriter and actress. Beginning in the 1970s, she has recorded generally in the adult contemporary genre. She has also appeared as an actress on television, in films, and on stage....
. Anthony Dodge wrote "Free Burt Lancaster" and Venus Flytrap and Marcia also directed readings of both plays at the Bay Street Theatre and she directed a reading of "Venus Flytrap" at the LGBT Center in NYC for Orange Hanky Productions in June 2008. The Active Theater Company will produce the play in November, 2010 in NYC. Marcia and husband Anthony Dodge wrote their first play, the Edgar Award-nominated Sherlock Holmes & The West End Horror, produced at the Bay Street Theatre in 2002, and later produced by the Asolo Theatre, Sarasota, Florida and the Pioneer Theatre Company, Utah, (2005.) Marcia directed all three productions. The play was published in 2006 by New York play publisher Playscripts, Inc.
Playscripts, Inc.
Playscripts, Inc. is a New York City-based publisher of new plays and musicals, founded by brothers and playwrights Doug and Jonathan Rand. Included in the exclusive Playscripts catalog are over 1,600 plays and musicals by over 800 authors....
Educator
Devoted to the training of young performers, Dodge is a frequent guest director at universities: For Marymount Manhattan CollegeMarymount Manhattan College
Marymount Manhattan College is an urban, coeducational, independent, private, liberal arts college located in Manhattan, New York City, New York with a focus in performing arts. The mission of the College is to educate a socially and economically diverse student body by fostering intellectual...
she directed & choreographed Drood. At CAP21/NYU--Divorce Me Darling, David Krane's Times Square, Drood and Merrily We Roll Along; also at SUNY-Buffalo. At Fordham College--Of Thee I Sing and Guys & Dolls; and Pacific Overtures at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. She has been on the faculty of The American Musical and Dramatic Academy since 1996, and was on the faculty of Collaborative Arts Project 21 (CAP21) at NYU Tisch School of the Arts
Tisch School of the Arts
Tisch School of the Arts is one of the 15 schools that make up New York University ....
from 1996-2002.
Personal life
Marcia Milgrom married Anthony Dodge (also from Detroit) in 1980, and they have one daughter, Natasha, born in 1997. The family resides in New York City.Ragtime Awards
SEVEN 2010 TONY AWARD NOMINATIONSBest Revival of a Musical;
Best Direction of a Musical: Marcia Milgrom Dodge;
Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical: Christiane Noll;
Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical: Bobby Steggert;
Best Scenic Design of a Musical: Derek McLane;
Best Costume Design of a Musical: Santo Loquasto;
Best Lighting Design of a Musical: Donald Holder
NINE 2010 DRAMA DESK AWARD NOMINATIONS
Outstanding Revival of a Musical;
Outstanding Director of a Musical: Marcia Milgrom Dodge;
Outstanding Actress in a Musical: Christiane Noll;
Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical: Bobby Steggert;
Outstanding Choreography: Marcia Milgrom Dodge;
Outstanding Orchestrations: William David Brohn;
Outstanding Set Design: Derek McLane;
Outstanding Costume Design: Santo Loquasto;
Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical-WINNER!
SIX 2010 HELEN HAYES AWARD NOMINATIONS
Outstanding Resident Musical: Ragtime, The Kennedy Center WINNER!;
Outstanding Director, Resident Musical: Marcia Milgrom Dodge WINNER!;
Outstanding Musical Direction, Resident Production: James Moore;
Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Musical: Quentin Earl Darrington;
Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Musical: Christiane Noll WINNER!;
Outstanding Costume Design, Resident Prod.: Santo Loquasto & Jimm Halliday WINNER!
TWO 2010 ASTAIRE AWARD NOMINATIONS
Choreographer: Marcia Milgrom Dodge;
Female Dancer: Savannah Wise
ONE 2010 DRAMA LEAGUE NOMINATION
Distinguished Revival of a Musical;
Distinguished Performance Award: Bobby Steggert
2010 THEATRE WORLD AWARD
Stephanie Umoh
2010 DOROTHY LOUDON "STARBABY" AWARD
Bobby Steggert
External links
- Internet Broadway listing
- Official site
- An Interview with Dodge, November 12, 2009
- Profile of Dodge at the Ragtime 2009 site
- http://www.helenhayes.org/sub/nr.cfm Helen Hayes Awards Listing 2010
- http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/culture/a-broadway-directors-unexpected-date-with-tony/1392/ A Broadway director’s unexpected date with Tony
- http://www.theactivetheater.com/ "Venus Flytrap" world premiere production November, 2010.