Bios

TED GREENBERG (Writer/Performer) made his stand-up comedy debut at New York City’s Comic Strip at age 15. A few years later he became a staff writer for the groundbreaking Harvard Lampoon. After leaving Harvard he was hired on Late Night with David Letterman where he co-created with childhood friend David Yazbek some of Letterman’s classic segments including “audience public access cable TV show,” “psychic vs. bloodhound tracking contest,” “staff parent’s night,” “Velcro suit” and “Larry Bud Melman’s singles ski weekend.” He along with eight other staff writers, including David Yazbek and Chris Elliot, were honored with an Emmy Award in 1984, a period now considered Letterman’s golden age.

Following his Letterman stint Ted returned to his performing career, appearing regularly at nearly every club across the Northeast. He’s been featured on The View, Million Dollar Listings and has twice been nominated for the Andy Kaufman Award.

His live comedy show, Ted Greenberg’s The Complete Performer, is now in its ninth season at The Soho Playhouse.

Before returning to his stand-up career, Ted worked as a trader at Dresdner Bank and an adolescent suicide prevention researcher at Columbia University.

His play ACE will premiere Off-Broadway in fall 2017.

 

ELIZABETH MARGID (Director) has directed original, classical, and musical work for, among other venues, the Yale Repertory Theatre, Berkshire Theatre Festival, New Georges, Hangar Theatre, Lincoln Center Directors’ Lab, NYU’s Musical Theatre Program, New Dramatists, and Fordham College at Lincoln Center, where she heads the Directing Program and has directed over 15 productions. She has also collaborated on several solo works, including What I Thought I Knew and Thin Walls by Alice Eve Cohen, both of which have performed widely, nationally and internationally, and Wild Man in Rome by Matthew Maguire, which has played in New York and Los Angeles. In addition to her work as a director, Ms. Margid is the librettist of a music-theatre adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles. She received an MFA in Directing from the Yale School of Drama and is a two-time recipient of the New York State Council on the Arts’ Artistic Associate Grant.