Martin Eli Segal (July 4, 1916 – August 5, 2012) was a Russian-born American businessman who co-founded the Film Society of Lincoln Center in 1969 with two other Lincoln Center executives, William F. May and Schuyler G.
Segal was born in Vitebsk, Russian Empire (now located in present-day Belarus), in 1916 and immigrated to the United States.
[2] He is a former Associated Press columnist and founder of human resource and benefits consulting firm, The Segal Group, which he founded in October 1939.
[2] Segal served as the General Chairman of the Night of 100 Stars II on February 17, 1985, the first AIDS benefit held by the Actors' Fund of America.
[4] Martin E. Segal Award recipients include: Melissa Aldana[5] Tyler Angle[6] Paul Appleby[7] Jeff Balsmeyer[8] Inon Barnatan[9] Joan Barnhill[10] Alessio Bax[11] Alan Berliner Sheldon Best[9] Jonathan Biss[12][13] Borromeo String Quartet[14] Brentano Quartet[15] Jason Robert Brown[16] Julia Bullock[9] Cast of Serafina[17] Anna Christy[18] Eric Cutler[14] The Daedalus String Quartet[19] Michelle DeYoung[15] Aaron Diehl[20] Meaghan Dutton-O’Hara[12] Nelsan Ellis[20] Escher String Quartet[9] Silas Farley[9] Ying Fang[9] Daire Fitzgerald[10] Shalita Grant[11] David Gresham[13] Andrea Gruber[17] Augustin Hadelich[7] Stefon Harris[21] Helen Huang[22] Michelle Hurst JACK Quartet[5] Thomas Kail[23] Richard Kelley[24] Quinn Kelsey[25] Alec Knight[9] Claire Kretzschmar[9] Michael John LaChiusa[22] Kate Lindsey[19] Jon Magnussen[26] Miriam Mahdaviani[27] Nancy Maultsby Reveka E. Mavrovitis[8] Jim McKay[18] Roberto Minczuk[16] Karen Notare[28] Matías Piñeiro[9] Laura Poitras[12] Jason Ritter[29] Valerian Ruminski Mauricio Salgado Jennie Somogyi[30] Scott St. John[10] Abi Stafford[6] Jonathan Stafford[26] Michael Stuhlbarg[30] Anita Thacher[28] Camille Thurman[9] Daniel Ulbricht[25] Erica vonKleist Kenny Washington[27] Alisa Weilerstein[23] George Wellington[24] Christopher Wheeldon[9] Shai Wosner[9] Xian Zhang[9][29]