About Us
Broadway Teaching Group is an organization that connects the Broadway and academic communities through a series of educational workshops, courses and special events throughout the year.
Founded by Gordon Greenberg and Pam Pariseau, BTG collaborates with Broadway's top artists and Music Theatre International to create events for educators and students. Broadway Guest artists who have worked with us include: Stephen Sondheim, Stephen Schwartz, Lin Manuel Miranda, Michael Mayer, Tom Kitt Alice Ripley, Jeanine Tesori, Jerry Mitchell, Jonathan Groff, Leah Michelle, Kimberly Grigsby, Marcia Norman, Larry O'Keefe, Nell Benjamin, Paul Gemignani, John Tartaglia, David Auburn, Chris Gattelli, Walter Bobbie, Ken Billington, Kathleen Marshall, Jeffrey Seller, Kevin McCollum, Bob Martin, Robert Lopez, Stephen Flaherty, Jo Sullivan Loesser, Patrick Healy, William Ivey Long, Brian MacDevitt, David Loud, Marcia Milgrom Dodge Craig Carnelia & Joe DiPietro. BTG has a full roster of qualified Broadway Teaching Artists trained at Juilliard, Yale, Harvard, Notre Dame, NYU and Teach For America and offers graduate and undergraduate level university credit in conjunction with University of Nevada Las Vegas.
GORDON GREENBERG is a writer, director and producer. He recently directed and revised Studs Terkel's Working in an acclaimed new production for Broadway In Chicago, developed with Stephen Schwartz and Lin Manuel Miranda. It is currently running at the Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place in Chicago. He directed the Off-Broadway revival of Jacques Brel Is Alive And Well… (Drama Desk, Drama League, Outer Critics Award noms), Band Geeks! (also co-writer – recipient of NEA and NAMT grants for production at Goodspeed), Disney’s Believe (created with Kirsten Childs – Disney Creative Entertainment), the Lortel nominated best Off-Broadway musical 2010 We The People (Theatreworks USA, Lortel Theatre), 33 Variations (Capital Rep), Working (Old Globe, Asolo), Pirates! Or Gilbert and Sullivan Plunder’d (created w/Nell Benjamin - Huntington, Goodspeed, Paper Mill), Floyd Collins (Signature), Happy Days (First National Tour, Boyett Theatricals), Theory of Three (NY Stage & Film), 1776 (Paper Mill), Citizens Band: The Panic Is On (Spiegeltent, NY), The Baker's Wife (Paper Mill, Goodspeed), Cam Jansen (Lambs Theatre), and numerous television commercials. Upcoming: The Book of Love: Emma Woodhouse's Guide to Sex & Strategy (Book Writer, Capital Rep.), Yentl (Asolo Rep.), Stars of David (Daryl Roth Productions), Ben Folds Project (The Producing Office), Jacques Brel (West End, London, 2011) and creating a new tv pilot for ABC Family. Education: RADA, Stanford University, NYU Film School. www.gordongreenberg.com
PAM PARISEAU is currently the Vice President of James Hammerstein Productions, a theatrical production company that works on and off-Broadway and in the West End. Broadway credits include Tracy Lett’s new play SUPERIOR DONUTS and last season’s production of THE SEAGULL with Kristin Scott Thomas and Peter Saarsgard. West End Productions include DEALER’S CHOICE, SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE and DIRTY BLONDE (directed by James Lapine and featuring the original Broadway cast.) Off-Broadway credits include: OUR TOWN at the Barrow Street Theatre directed by David Cromer (which has the distinction of being the longest running OUR TOWN ever), MY NAME IS RACHEL CORRIE (directed by Alan Rickman), SLUT, BAT BOY THE MUSICAL (music and lyrics by Lawrence O’Keefe), and THE BIG BANG. Projects in development include a new musical called LUCKY BREAK based on the 1974 Woody Allen and Zero Mostel movie “The Front” to be directed by John Caird, and a West End production of the Simon Gray play THE LATE MIDDLE CLASES. She has served as Creative Director of National Artists Management Company (producers of the Broadway production of CHICAGO), Casting Director and Literary Manager for Musical Theatre Works (a developmental not for profit dedicated to new Musicals), and Artistic Director of the Helen Hays Performing Arts Center and the Chiswick Park Theatre. Along with Gordon Greenberg, she founded and served as Artistic Director for the Broadway Classroom program. She is a graduate of the Boston Conservatory.
MUSIC THEATRE INTERNATIONAL: MTI is one of the world’s leading dramatic licensing agencies, protecting the rights and legacy of composers, lyricists and book writers. Our core business is issuing licenses and supplying scripts, musical materials, and other theatrical resources to schools and theatres, both amateur and professional around the world. With nearly 300 titles in the MTI catalogue including hits from the Broadway and London stage, musical revues, the Broadway Junior Collection and other youth musicals, MTI shows have been performed by 60,000 amateur and professional theatrical organizations throughout the US and in over 60 countries around the world.
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