Scott Rudin

Scott Rudin (born July 14, 1958) is an Academy Award-winning American motion picture producer and a Tony Award-winning theatre producer. Rudin lives in New York City with his longtime partner John Barlow, a Broadway theatre publicist and founding partner of Barlow/Hartman Public Relations. Rudin was born and raised in the New York City area. At the age of fifteen, he started working as an assistant to theatre producer Kermit Bloomgarden. Later, he worked for producers Robert Whitehead and Emanuel Azenberg. In lieu of attending college, Rudin took a job as a casting agent and ended up starting his own company. His newly minted firm cast numerous Broadway shows, including Pippin (1972) for Stuart Ostrow and Bob Fosse and Annie (1977), for Mike Nichols. He also cast PBS's Verna: USO Girl (1978), starring Sissy Spacek and William Hurt, and the films King of the Gypsies (1978), The Wanderers (1979), Simon (1980) with Alan Arkin and Resurrection (1980). In 1980, Rudin moved to Los... full article at wikipedia