ABOUT THE FILMMAKER

From 1995-99, Marc Fields was Series Producer for State of the Arts, a weekly arts magazine produced by New Jersey Public Television. During that time, State of the Arts received eight Mid-Atlantic Regional Emmys, including Outstanding Talk Series and Outstanding Magazine Format Program, and Marc himself received four. In 1998, PBS aired his half-hour documentary, New Stage for a City, about the long struggle to build the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark.

Another of his documentaries, From Gulag to Glasnost: The Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection, about an American professor who smuggled Soviet dissident art, was awarded a CINE Golden Eagle and the Cultural Program Award of the Eastern Educational Network. From Gulag to Glasnost has aired annually on NJN Public Television since 1995 and was recently screened at the Montreal Museum of Fine Art. Marc’s 1995 story about virtuoso juggler Michael Moschen received a regional Emmy for Outstanding Programming Feature.

He is the co-author of the biography/theater history From the Bowery to Broadway: Lew Fields and the Roots of American Popular Theater, with a foreword by Helen Hayes (Oxford University Press, 1993). From the Bowery to Broadway won the first Kurt Weill Prize, an award recognizing "distinguished scholarship in the field of 20th century musical theater and opera." He has been a consultant for the National Portrait Gallery exhibition Red, Hot and Blue: A Smithsonian Salute to the Musical and for the PBS American Masters program, Vaudeville. He is the scriptwriter for three episodes of the upcoming six-part PBS documentary series, Broadway: The American Musical, produced by Ghost Light Films.

From 1990 to 1993, Marc was a full-time faculty member in the Graduate Film Program at New York University, where he taught screenwriting and production. During the 1992-93 academic year, Marc was also the Associate Chair of the NYU Graduate Film Program. Currently, Marc is teaching film production, screenwriting, and film history at Concord Academy in Massachusetts.

Marc is the writer, producer and director of Willie the Lion, which began as a half-hour program while he was still with State of the Arts. With the help of funding from CPB, the New Jersey State Council for the Arts and NJN Public Television, he expanded the program to a full hour for national audiences. Willie the Lion is being distributed to public television stations by American Public Television for broadcast in winter 2002.

Contact: Marc Fields at 978-318-0566, or marcfields@mindspring.com

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