Did you know that the Pittsburgh Playhouse is part of Point Park University? Join us for a behind-the-scenes tour of this great local venue!

An in depth look at the venues, back stages and production studios at the Pittsburgh Playhouse as well as historic looks at the adjoining Gilded Era Bank Center and Stock Exchange.

TOUR HOST BIO:

Kim Martin has been associated with Point Park University's Pittsburgh Playhouse since her start as a student in 1983. She stayed on at Point Park to work in the Conservatory of Dance and Music where she assisted in the implementation of a number of programs.

She left Point Park to become assistant to the publisher at In Pittsburgh Newsweekly, Inc. In the following year, Martin was appointed the first executive director of Pennsylvania Presenters.

In 1996, she became the artistic director at Apple Hill Playhouse. In addition, she directed at various theaters in and around the Pittsburgh area, including: Pittsburgh Playhouse, Barebones Productions, City Theatre's Young Playwrights Festival, Axiom Theatre, Apple Hill Playhouse, Pyramid Productions, Upstairs Theatre, The New Group Theatre, Red Barn Theatre and Geneva College.

In 1999, Martin returned to the Pittsburgh Playhouse and Point Park to serve as production stage manager and to create and develop the stage-management program at the University, and has since enjoyed the opportunity to build upon and utilize her abilities in the technical aspects of theatrical production.

After directing, stage managing, producing and acting in more than 500 productions, Martin is currently serving as general manager/producer of the Pittsburgh Playhouse. 

TOUR STARTS/ENDS: 350 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA  15222

• Photography is allowed.

• Restrooms are available.

• Wheelchair-accessible restrooms are available.

• There are parts of this tour that are not wheelchair-accessible.

Additional events you may be interested in:

Did you know that the Pittsburgh Playhouse is part of Point Park University? Join us for a behind-the-scenes tour of this great local venue!

An in depth look at the venues, back stages and production studios at the Pittsburgh Playhouse as well as historic looks at the adjoining Gilded Era Bank Center and Stock Exchange.

TOUR HOST BIO:

Kim Martin has been associated with Point Park University's Pittsburgh Playhouse since her start as a student in 1983. She stayed on at Point Park to work in the Conservatory of Dance and Music where she assisted in the implementation of a number of programs.

She left Point Park to become assistant to the publisher at In Pittsburgh Newsweekly, Inc. In the following year, Martin was appointed the first executive director of Pennsylvania Presenters.

In 1996, she became the artistic director at Apple Hill Playhouse. In addition, she directed at various theaters in and around the Pittsburgh area, including: Pittsburgh Playhouse, Barebones Productions, City Theatre's Young Playwrights Festival, Axiom Theatre, Apple Hill Playhouse, Pyramid Productions, Upstairs Theatre, The New Group Theatre, Red Barn Theatre and Geneva College.

In 1999, Martin returned to the Pittsburgh Playhouse and Point Park to serve as production stage manager and to create and develop the stage-management program at the University, and has since enjoyed the opportunity to build upon and utilize her abilities in the technical aspects of theatrical production.

After directing, stage managing, producing and acting in more than 500 productions, Martin is currently serving as general manager/producer of the Pittsburgh Playhouse. 

TOUR STARTS/ENDS: 350 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA  15222

• Photography is allowed.

• Restrooms are available.

• Wheelchair-accessible restrooms are available.

• There are parts of this tour that are not wheelchair-accessible.

Additional events you may be interested in:

Did you know that the Pittsburgh Playhouse is part of Point Park University? Join us for a behind-the-scenes tour of this great local venue!

An in depth look at the venues, back stages and production studios at the Pittsburgh Playhouse as well as historic looks at the adjoining Gilded Era Bank Center and Stock Exchange.

TOUR HOST BIO:

Kim Martin has been associated with Point Park University's Pittsburgh Playhouse since her start as a student in 1983. She stayed on at Point Park to work in the Conservatory of Dance and Music where she assisted in the implementation of a number of programs.

She left Point Park to become assistant to the publisher at In Pittsburgh Newsweekly, Inc. In the following year, Martin was appointed the first executive director of Pennsylvania Presenters.

In 1996, she became the artistic director at Apple Hill Playhouse. In addition, she directed at various theaters in and around the Pittsburgh area, including: Pittsburgh Playhouse, Barebones Productions, City Theatre's Young Playwrights Festival, Axiom Theatre, Apple Hill Playhouse, Pyramid Productions, Upstairs Theatre, The New Group Theatre, Red Barn Theatre and Geneva College.

In 1999, Martin returned to the Pittsburgh Playhouse and Point Park to serve as production stage manager and to create and develop the stage-management program at the University, and has since enjoyed the opportunity to build upon and utilize her abilities in the technical aspects of theatrical production.

After directing, stage managing, producing and acting in more than 500 productions, Martin is currently serving as general manager/producer of the Pittsburgh Playhouse. 

TOUR STARTS/ENDS: 350 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA  15222

• Photography is allowed.

• Restrooms are available.

• Wheelchair-accessible restrooms are available.

• There are parts of this tour that are not wheelchair-accessible.

Additional events you may be interested in:

Did you know that the Pittsburgh Playhouse is part of Point Park University? Join us for a behind-the-scenes tour of this great local venue!

An in depth look at the venues, back stages and production studios at the Pittsburgh Playhouse as well as historic looks at the adjoining Gilded Era Bank Center and Stock Exchange.

TOUR HOST BIO:

Kim Martin has been associated with Point Park University's Pittsburgh Playhouse since her start as a student in 1983. She stayed on at Point Park to work in the Conservatory of Dance and Music where she assisted in the implementation of a number of programs.

She left Point Park to become assistant to the publisher at In Pittsburgh Newsweekly, Inc. In the following year, Martin was appointed the first executive director of Pennsylvania Presenters.

In 1996, she became the artistic director at Apple Hill Playhouse. In addition, she directed at various theaters in and around the Pittsburgh area, including: Pittsburgh Playhouse, Barebones Productions, City Theatre's Young Playwrights Festival, Axiom Theatre, Apple Hill Playhouse, Pyramid Productions, Upstairs Theatre, The New Group Theatre, Red Barn Theatre and Geneva College.

In 1999, Martin returned to the Pittsburgh Playhouse and Point Park to serve as production stage manager and to create and develop the stage-management program at the University, and has since enjoyed the opportunity to build upon and utilize her abilities in the technical aspects of theatrical production.

After directing, stage managing, producing and acting in more than 500 productions, Martin is currently serving as general manager/producer of the Pittsburgh Playhouse. 

TOUR STARTS/ENDS: 350 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA  15222

• Photography is allowed.

• Restrooms are available.

• Wheelchair-accessible restrooms are available.

• There are parts of this tour that are not wheelchair-accessible.

Additional events you may be interested in:

Take a behind the scenes look at one of the top international venues for jazz in the world (as professed by Downbeat Magazine). Tour our newly renovated music hall, learn about the technology it takes to put on a jazz concert from the new tech deck, watch what happens in our professional video studio and enjoy listening to past concerts from the MCG Jazz archives in our recording studio. Participants will walk away with an understanding of how a quality performance venue and recording studio are run.

TOUR HOST BIO:

MCG Jazz is a social enterprise of Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild, a subsidiary of Manchester Bidwell Corporation, a non-profit arts and learning center in Pittsburgh, PA.

Through our guiding principles:  environment shapes behavior, people are assets and creativity fuels enterprise, and our mission to preserve, present and promote jazz, we aim to strengthen the Pittsburgh jazz community and contribute to the overall cultural and artistic diversity of the region.

The MCG Jazz concert series – one of the longest running subscription-based jazz performance series in the county –has been a safe place for artists to share their art and discuss relevant issues of the time. Our recording label produces distinctive albums from a wide variety of artists, our educational programs serve elementary, middle and high school aged students in urban and rural communities, and our archives of audio/video recordings, photographs, interviews and individual artist collections exists as a model for learning for future generations to help grow the audience for jazz and enhance the art form and its creators.

Marty Ashby is a jazz guitarist, GRAMMY® Award-winning producer, programming consultant, motivational speaker and lifelong advocate of jazz music and its unique place in American culture. He is Executive Producer of MCG Jazz, which he started in 1987 and since then he has produced more than 2,000 concerts and over 55 recordings on the MCG Jazz label garnering five GRAMMY® Awards and 11 additional GRAMMY® nominations. For more than three decades, Ashby has been an artistic advisor and producer for jazz concerts and festivals around the country, including the Animal Crackers jazz series in Racine, WI, Jazz at Seven Springs Festival and Jazz on the Circle Series in Cleveland.  He was the EPP Goldman-Sachs Fellow at the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian and has worked with many Jazz organizations as a consultant. Ashby produced the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra’s “Jazz Beyond Borders” 2019 International tour.  Ashby has presented his Jazz is Life® professional development workshop to corporate and community audiences nationally and internationally. In 2018, Ashby produced the documentary film, We Knew What We Had: The Greatest Jazz Story Never Told which explores the social conditions and historical events that conspired to make Pittsburgh one of the leading contributors to the legacy of jazz music in the world.  The film won two Telly Awards in the categories of Music and Arts and Culture.  As a guitarist, Ashby has performed and recorded with Slide Hampton, Claudio Roditi, Nancy Wilson, Paquito D’Rivera, Herbie Mann, Phil Woods, The Dizzy Gillespie™ All-Star Big Band and others.

TOUR STARTS/ENDS: 1815 Metropolitan Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15233

• Photography is allowed. 

• A restroom is available. 

• Wheelchair accessible restroom is available.

Additional events you may be interested in:

Take a behind the scenes look at one of the top international venues for jazz in the world (as professed by Downbeat Magazine). Tour our newly renovated music hall, learn about the technology it takes to put on a jazz concert from the new tech deck, watch what happens in our professional video studio and enjoy listening to past concerts from the MCG Jazz archives in our recording studio. Participants will walk away with an understanding of how a quality performance venue and recording studio are run.

TOUR HOST BIO:

MCG Jazz is a social enterprise of Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild, a subsidiary of Manchester Bidwell Corporation, a non-profit arts and learning center in Pittsburgh, PA.

Through our guiding principles:  environment shapes behavior, people are assets and creativity fuels enterprise, and our mission to preserve, present and promote jazz, we aim to strengthen the Pittsburgh jazz community and contribute to the overall cultural and artistic diversity of the region.

The MCG Jazz concert series – one of the longest running subscription-based jazz performance series in the county –has been a safe place for artists to share their art and discuss relevant issues of the time. Our recording label produces distinctive albums from a wide variety of artists, our educational programs serve elementary, middle and high school aged students in urban and rural communities, and our archives of audio/video recordings, photographs, interviews and individual artist collections exists as a model for learning for future generations to help grow the audience for jazz and enhance the art form and its creators.

Marty Ashby is a jazz guitarist, GRAMMY® Award-winning producer, programming consultant, motivational speaker and lifelong advocate of jazz music and its unique place in American culture. He is Executive Producer of MCG Jazz, which he started in 1987 and since then he has produced more than 2,000 concerts and over 55 recordings on the MCG Jazz label garnering five GRAMMY® Awards and 11 additional GRAMMY® nominations. For more than three decades, Ashby has been an artistic advisor and producer for jazz concerts and festivals around the country, including the Animal Crackers jazz series in Racine, WI, Jazz at Seven Springs Festival and Jazz on the Circle Series in Cleveland.  He was the EPP Goldman-Sachs Fellow at the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian and has worked with many Jazz organizations as a consultant. Ashby produced the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra’s “Jazz Beyond Borders” 2019 International tour.  Ashby has presented his Jazz is Life® professional development workshop to corporate and community audiences nationally and internationally. In 2018, Ashby produced the documentary film, We Knew What We Had: The Greatest Jazz Story Never Told which explores the social conditions and historical events that conspired to make Pittsburgh one of the leading contributors to the legacy of jazz music in the world.  The film won two Telly Awards in the categories of Music and Arts and Culture.  As a guitarist, Ashby has performed and recorded with Slide Hampton, Claudio Roditi, Nancy Wilson, Paquito D’Rivera, Herbie Mann, Phil Woods, The Dizzy Gillespie™ All-Star Big Band and others.

TOUR STARTS/ENDS: 1815 Metropolitan Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15233

• Photography is allowed. 

• A restroom is available. 

• Wheelchair accessible restroom is available.

Additional events you may be interested in:

Take a behind the scenes look at one of the top international venues for jazz in the world (as professed by Downbeat Magazine). Tour our newly renovated music hall, learn about the technology it takes to put on a jazz concert from the new tech deck, watch what happens in our professional video studio and enjoy listening to past concerts from the MCG Jazz archives in our recording studio. Participants will walk away with an understanding of how a quality performance venue and recording studio are run.

TOUR HOST BIO:

MCG Jazz is a social enterprise of Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild, a subsidiary of Manchester Bidwell Corporation, a non-profit arts and learning center in Pittsburgh, PA.

Through our guiding principles:  environment shapes behavior, people are assets and creativity fuels enterprise, and our mission to preserve, present and promote jazz, we aim to strengthen the Pittsburgh jazz community and contribute to the overall cultural and artistic diversity of the region.

The MCG Jazz concert series – one of the longest running subscription-based jazz performance series in the county –has been a safe place for artists to share their art and discuss relevant issues of the time. Our recording label produces distinctive albums from a wide variety of artists, our educational programs serve elementary, middle and high school aged students in urban and rural communities, and our archives of audio/video recordings, photographs, interviews and individual artist collections exists as a model for learning for future generations to help grow the audience for jazz and enhance the art form and its creators.

Marty Ashby is a jazz guitarist, GRAMMY® Award-winning producer, programming consultant, motivational speaker and lifelong advocate of jazz music and its unique place in American culture. He is Executive Producer of MCG Jazz, which he started in 1987 and since then he has produced more than 2,000 concerts and over 55 recordings on the MCG Jazz label garnering five GRAMMY® Awards and 11 additional GRAMMY® nominations. For more than three decades, Ashby has been an artistic advisor and producer for jazz concerts and festivals around the country, including the Animal Crackers jazz series in Racine, WI, Jazz at Seven Springs Festival and Jazz on the Circle Series in Cleveland.  He was the EPP Goldman-Sachs Fellow at the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian and has worked with many Jazz organizations as a consultant. Ashby produced the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra’s “Jazz Beyond Borders” 2019 International tour.  Ashby has presented his Jazz is Life® professional development workshop to corporate and community audiences nationally and internationally. In 2018, Ashby produced the documentary film, We Knew What We Had: The Greatest Jazz Story Never Told which explores the social conditions and historical events that conspired to make Pittsburgh one of the leading contributors to the legacy of jazz music in the world.  The film won two Telly Awards in the categories of Music and Arts and Culture.  As a guitarist, Ashby has performed and recorded with Slide Hampton, Claudio Roditi, Nancy Wilson, Paquito D’Rivera, Herbie Mann, Phil Woods, The Dizzy Gillespie™ All-Star Big Band and others.

TOUR STARTS/ENDS: 1815 Metropolitan Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15233

• Photography is allowed. 

• A restroom is available. 

• Wheelchair accessible restroom is available.

Additional events you may be interested in: