Ira Weitzman was the creator and Director of the Musical Theater Program at Playwrights Horizons and is now the Musical Theater Associate Producer at Lincoln Center Theater. From 1978 to the present, in collaboration with André Bishop, he developed premieres by such eminent artists as Lynn Ahrens, Jason Robert Brown, Martha Clarke, Graciela Daniele, William Finn, Stephen Flaherty, Adam Guettel, Michael John LaChiusa, James Lapine, Craig Lucas, Terrence McNally, Harold Prince, Joshua Schmidt, Stephen Sondheim, Susan Stroman, John Weidman, George C. Wolfe, Alfred Uhry, David Yazbek, and many others. The dozens of shows he has worked on include In Trousers, March of the Falsettos, Falsettoland, Once on this Island, Sunday in the Park With George, Assassins, My Favorite Year, Hello Again, A Man of No Importance, A New Brain, Passion, Parade, Contact, Elegies, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, The Frogs, The Light in the Piazza, and the Tony-winning revivals of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Carousel, South Pacific, and The King and I. In addition, he developed the original productions of Into the Woods, Violet, The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin, as well as the revival of Moss Hart and Irving Berlin’s As Thousands Cheer and the revised Merrily We Roll Along (La Jolla Playhouse). He served as Artistic Director of the WBAI Free Music Store, City Center’s Encores!, and Producer of Lincoln Center’s American Songbook. In 2009, Weitzman was honored with the Lucille Lortel Award for Sustained Excellence. His most current musical is the acclaimed Broadway revival of Falsettos.