Mark York

MARK YORK (Producer/Composer/Lyricist/Pianist/Arranger) most recently was seen as Jim Dale’s sidekick-pianist on London’s West End at The Vaudeville Theatre and Off-Broadway in Just Jim Dale at Roundabout Theatre. He is the Executive Producer and Founder of The Ziegfeld Society, Music Coordinator for Jerry Herman. Mark is also the Arranger/Pianist and Musical Director for the award winning I’ve Got A Little Twist, the new hit Gilbert & Sullivan revue that he co-created with David Auxier which has continued to play across the US since 2009. He has just created the theme song for the new “Gypsy Bear” to be given to the cast of children of each new Broadway musical…in the same tradition of the “Gypsy Robe” on Broadway.

He was Music Assistant to Cy Coleman. NY credits: Arranger/Pianist – Busker Alley starring Jim Dale and Glenn Close directed by Tony Walton, Arranger/MD – Conversation Piece and The Happy Hypocrite directed by Tony Walton, Directed/MD – George White Scandals starring Julie Wilson, Helen Gallagher, Penny Fuller, Joel Higgins, Jane Summerhays, Sarah Rice, Meg Bussert and Martin Vidnovic and Producer/Director – Ziegfeld’s Midnight Frolic of 2007 and Ziegfeld’s Midnight Frolic of 2008 starring Helen Gallagher, Jane Summerhays and Anita Gillette, Ziegfeld’s Midnight Frolic of 2010 starring Anita Gillette and Sarah Rice, The First Marilyn….Marilyn Miller starring Merrill Grant and 2005 Revival of Sweet Charity starring Christina Applegate. He directed and Musically Directed 90 Years of Broadway starring Carol Lawrence, Jim Dale, Tonya Pinkins, Lee Roy Reams, Marni Nixon, Sarah Rice, Heather McRae, Walter Willison, Jane Summerhays, Jana Robbins and Anna Bergman. Not Just Mark York – The Songs of Mark York played at 54 Below in June 2014 featuring numerous Broadway performers and starring Klea Blackhurst.

Mark started playing the piano in his father’s church in Oklahoma at age 9. His own musicals include: Rest In Peace directed-choreographed by Baayork Lee; A Midsummer Night, The Odd Ducklings, Apple Annie, and 11 children’s musicals including Alice In Wonderland, Sleeping Beauty, Pinocchio and Heidi. His newest musical, Galveston! Has had two sold out runs in July 2003 and again in Sept. 2011. Mark’s Alice In Wonderland will open at the Madison Theatre in New York City this coming January 2016. Mark is a native New Yorker from Oklahoma.

More information on http://www.markyork.net/