Ken Waissman

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Ken Waissman is a Tony Award-winning American theatre producer.

Waissman's first Broadway credit was the 1971 Paul Zindel play And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little with Estelle Parsons and Julie Harris. The following year, while he and partner Maxine Fox were in Chicago, they attended Grease, a popular local play about high school life in the 1950s being performed at the Kingston Mines Theater in the Old Town section of the city^[1]. The two thought it would work better as a musical and encouraged its writers, Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey, to relocate to New York City and embellish it with a score. The result was Grease, which Waissman and Fox mounted off-Broadway before transferring it uptown. It garnered him his first Tony nomination. He was nominated again for Over Here!; the third time proved to be the charm when he won not only a Tony but a Drama Desk Award as well for Torch Song Trilogy.

[edit] Other Broadway credits

• Agnes of God (1982)
• The Octette Bridge Club (1985)
• Asinamali! (1987)
• Carrie - The Musical (1988)
• Street Corner Symphony (1997)

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[edit] References

• Internet Broadway Database listing
• Understudy (magazine of the Fulton Theatre, Lancaster, Pa.): Vol. 1 (Sept. 2006)]