{{Short description|American musician and comedian}} {{infobox person |name=Mark Nadler |birth_place=Waterloo, Iowa, U.S. |education=Interlochen Arts Academy |occupation={{flatlist| *Cabaret performer *actor *comedic pianist }} |website={{URL|http://www.marknadler.com}} }} '''Mark Nadler''' is a New York City-based cabaret performer, actor, and comedic pianist. He has been described as "one of New York's most acclaimed singer/pianists"<ref>{{cite news|publisher=Oakland Tribune|title=Original angel flies back to Bay for Berkeley Rep's 'Ghosts'|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4176/is_20040227/ai_n14567296/pg_2|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130724162146/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4176/is_20040227/ai_n14567296/pg_2|url-status=dead|archive-date=2013-07-24|date=2004-02-27}}</ref> and a "virtuoso" of classical piano.<ref>{{cite news|publisher=KGO AM |url=http://www.kgoam810.com/customform.asp?id=38711&view=scheduled |title=Russian on the Side |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110525123312/http://www.kgoam810.com/customform.asp?id=38711&view=scheduled |archivedate=2011-05-25 }}</ref>
==Early life and education== Nadler was born and raised in Waterloo, Iowa. He took an interest in Broadway musicals from a young age, and was a fan of Danny Kaye, Mahalia Jackson, Jimmy Durante, the Marx Brothers, and Bugs Bunny.<ref name=sfc/> At the age of ten, he began performing professionally at the Long Straw Saloon in Cedar Falls, Iowa.<ref name=sfc/> As the gay son of Jewish immigrants, he felt out of place in the American Midwest.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.sfgate.com/performance/article/Theater-review-Nadler-s-Russian-on-the-Side-3188844.php | title=Theater review: Nadler's 'Russian on the Side' | first=Robert | last=Hurwitt | work=San Francisco Chronicle | date=October 23, 2008 }}</ref> He studied at the Interlochen Arts Academy in 1981<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.ebar.com/arts/art_article.php?sec=theatre&article=454 | title=Pianist revelations:Mark Nadler brings 'Russian on the Side' to SF | first=Richard | last=Dodds | work=Bay Area Reporter | date=October 16, 2008}}</ref> before moving to Manhattan at age 17.
==Career== Nadler frequently has collaborated with singer KT Sullivan.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.nysun.com/arts/westons-african-state-of-mind/51030/ | title=Weston's African State of Mind | first=Will | last=Friedwald | work=New York Sun | date=March 23, 2007}}</ref> He has written and performed in dozens of touring, Broadway, and off-Broadway productions, as well as on television programs. Some of his more notable productions include ''American Rhapsody'' in 1999, an off-Broadway revue based on George Gershwin that won the Manhattan Association of Cabarets Award for Outstanding Musical Revue and was nominated for a Drama Desk Award and two Lucille Lortel Awards;<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.playbill.com/article/american-rhapsody-has-gershwin-rhythm-at-triad-opening-nov-10-com-92776 | title=American Rhapsody Has Gershwin Rhythm at Triad, Opening Nov. 10 | work=Playbill | date=October 27, 2000}}</ref> ''Red Light'', an "opera in honky-tonk" co-written with Dawn Hampton, which also won a MAC Award;<ref>{{cite web | title=Dawn Hampton: Artist Biography | work=AllMusic.com | url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/dawn-hampton-mn0000603647 }}</ref> ''Tschaikovsky (and Other Russians)'', performed at the Algonquin Hotel and the American Conservatory Theater, among other venues, which won the 2003 Bistro Award;<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/24/arts/cabaret-guide.html | title=Cabaret Guide | first=Stephen | last=Holden | work=The New York Times | date=January 24, 2003}}</ref> and ''Russian on the Side'', based on the Ira Gershwin/Kurt Weill patter song "Tschaikowsky (and Other Russians)", which played the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and the Marines Memorial Theater in San Francisco, California.<ref name=sfc>{{cite news | url=https://www.sfgate.com/performance/article/Comic-pianist-Mark-Nadler-a-new-Danny-Kaye-3190265.php | title=Comic pianist Mark Nadler: a new Danny Kaye | first=Jesse | last=Hamlin | work=San Francisco Chronicle | date=October 12, 2008}}</ref>
==Personal life== In 2004, Nadler and his partner hosted a "Bark Mitzvah" for their wheaten terrier, Admiral Rufus K. Boom,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/20/nyregion/20mitzvah.html |title=Today He Is a Dog; Actually, He Always Was | first=Lily | last=Koppel | work=The New York Times | date=December 20, 2004}}</ref> as a commentary on the frivolity and excess of Bar Mitzvah engagements at which Nadler had performed earlier in his career.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://jewishexponent.com/2013/04/25/russians-are-coming-russians-are-coming-and-an-iowan-too/ | title=Russians Are Coming! Russians Are Coming -- and an Iowan, Too! | first=Andrea | last=Cantor | work=The Jewish Exponent | date=April 25, 2013}}</ref>
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==External links== *[http://www.marknadler.com/ Official site]
{{DEFAULTSORT:Nadler, Mark}} Category:American comedy musicians Category:American cabaret singers Category:Jewish American musicians Category:Jewish cabaret performers Category:People from Waterloo, Iowa Category:Living people Category:Year of birth missing (living people) Category:Jewish American comedians Category:Jewish male comedians Category:21st-century American Jews Category:Jews from Iowa Category:Interlochen Center for the Arts alumni Category:Comedians from Iowa