Mark Nadler is a New York City-based cabaret performer, actor, and comedic pianist.
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.
[3] At the age of ten, he began performing professionally at the Long Straw Saloon in Cedar Falls, Iowa.
[6] 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;[7] Red Light, an "opera in honky-tonk" co-written with Dawn Hampton, which also won a MAC Award;[8] Tschaikovsky (and Other Russians), performed at the Algonquin Hotel and the American Conservatory Theater, among other venues, which won the 2003 Bistro Award;[9] 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.