Michael Heitzman
Director, Legally Blonde, Sacramento Music Circus
Director, Big River, Sacramento Music Circus
Director, Shrek, North Shore Music Theatre
Director, Buyer & Cellar, Mason Street Warehouse
Director, The Little Mermaid, North Shore Music Theatre
-7 IRNE Award Nominations including Best Director
Director/Writer of Vices: A Love Story
-Created by and Co-writer: Book, music and lyrics.
-8 Joseph Jefferson Award nominations (Chicago) including Best Director,
New Work and Best Musical
-8 Carbonell Award nominations (director: Clive Cholerton)
Associate Director for International & Broadway Director, Glenn Casale
Beauty and the Beast, Amsterdam, Holland
Beauty and the Beast, Moscow, Russia
Beauty and the Beast, Paris, France
The Little Mermaid, Papermill Playhouse, Pittsburgh CLO, Dallas Summer Musicals
Grumpy Old Men, The Musical
Director, The Meredith Vieira Show
-Put together the Broadway medley with Peter Gallagher and Chicago, Mama Mia
James Monroe Iglehart and the Rockettes for Meredith’s premiere episode.
1204 Broadway | 4th Floor | New York, NY | 10001 646.854.9556 | [email protected] Director/Writer/Creator of the original television sitcom, "Scott Free"
-Half-hour, network level, one-camera, comedy created in collaboration with Barbra
Streisand’s production company, Barwood Films and Kelsey Grammer’s production
company Grammnet.
-Pitched and sold pilot to Paramount Pictures.
-Directed pilot with Danny Burstein, Beth Leavel, Mary Testa and Kathy Najimy.
Director, The Lucille Lortel Awards
- Directed large-scale award ceremony for League of Off-Broadway Theatres and Producers.
-Worked with hosts Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Anna Chlumsky, Bebe Neuwirth, Bryan Batt, Zach Braff, Samantha Bee, Mario Cantone, Megan Mullally, Nick Offerman and guest performers including Alan Menken, Stomp, LaChanze, Orfeh, Laura Benanti, etc.
Director, The Ashman Award & Cabaret for GMHC
- Honoring Javier Muñoz and featuring Lin Manuel Miranda, Robin de Jesus, Alton Fitzgerald White, Ana Villafane, Ryann Redmond and Henry Gainza
Co-writer Bingo (the winning musical), www.bingothemusical.com
- Co-writer: book, music, lyrics - Off-Broadway, 2005-2006
- Published by Samuel French
Grammy(tm) nominated songwriter of "Throw That Girl Around," from the Broadway musical Swing!
Co-composer and lyricist for song.
Dramatists Guild Fellow
Mentors: Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty.
Writer, Indiana University Premiere Musicals
Writing original musical, Solana, as part of a two-year residency, www.heitzmanreid.com
1204 Broadway | 4th Floor | New York, NY | 10001 646.854.9556 | [email protected] EDUCATION
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Bachelor of Arts, Communications
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS & AWARDS
Grammy(tm) nomination, Swing!
2007 Bay Area Critics Association Award for Best Musical,
Bingo Joseph Jefferson Award nominated director and writer,
Vices: A Love Story Carbonell Award nominated writer,
Vices: A Love Story Writers Guild of America,
East Dramatists Guild of America Dramatists Guild Fellow Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI)
PROFESSIONAL REFERENCES:
Glenn Casale
Director & Artistic Director, California Musical Theatre [email protected] 818-970-8410
Carol Fishman
General Manager, Playwrights Horizons, NYC [email protected] 212-564- 1235 ext 3130
George Forbes
President of the Off-Broadway League and Executive Director, Lucille Lortel Foundation [email protected] 212-924-2817
SDC, WGA East, Dramatists Guild
1204 Broadway | 4th Floor | New York, NY | 10001 646.854.9556 | [email protected]