Michael Presser

Michael Presser founded and is Executive Director of Inside Broadway, a Manhattan professional educational theatre company in its 25th season. Inside Broadway was founded in 1982 as requested by the late President of the Shubert Organization, Inc., Bernard B. Jacobs, to allow for a student ticket program for Cats in its Broadway run. Inside Broadway currently develops touring musical productions and educational programs that allow students to experience theatre firsthand and learn from performing arts professionals. Over 60,000 students in 150 schools in all five boroughs participate each year. The available shows include Leonard Bernstein’s On the Town, Duke Ellington’s Sophisticated Ladies, Smokey Joe’s Café, George M. Cohan’s My Hometown, Marlo Thomas’ Free To Be. . . You And Me, Oscar Hammerstein’s All Kinds Of People, Irving Berlin’s Land That I Love, Richard Rodgers’ Broadway, and Bye Bye Birdie.

Mr. Presser has much commercial concert and managerial experience. He was worked the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Dusseldorf, Theatre des Westens in Berlin, Theatre Aachen and Gaudi Musicals, Cologne. Artists that he has worked with include Karl Richter, Carlos Montoya, Peter Nero and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. He has been on Board #5 of the Manhattan Community Planning for over 20 years and at one time served as Chairman. He sits on the Mayor’s Midtown Citizens Committee and The Town Hall Foundation. He received the 2000 Heart to Heart Award for service in the Times Square Theatre District and the 2005 Theatre Museum Award for Arts in Education. A Philadelphia native, Michael Presser is a graduate of Temple University, a member of The University Club of New York, and a longtime resident of Greenwich Village in New York City.

Inside Broadway belongs to The Producers League of Theatre for Young Audiences, Inc. (PLOTYA); The New York City Arts in Education Round Table (AIE); and the Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York (A.R.T./New York).