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]