All programs are custom-designed and
directed by:
Founder and President of V.I.P. Tours of New York
Architecture and Theatre Historian
NYC Licensed Tour Guide
In
New York, Joe has been in large part responsible for the landmark
designations of 36 Broadway Theatres, including the New Amsterdam on 42nd
Street. He was Co-founder of ·The Showpeople·s Committee to Save Radio
City Music Hall,· co-founder and chairman of the New York City Historic
Districts Council, Board member and long-time Chairperson of the National
Conference Committees of The League of Historic American Theatres and
of the Theatre Historical Society of America. He is the Creator of ·Discover
Broadway·, the Official Tour of Broadway, sponsored by the League of American
Theatres and Producers, Inc. and co-creator of an Art and Architecture
Tour for Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. He had been co-lecturer
on New York Theatre for four years with actress Helen Hayes, and in Moscow
for the U.S. Department of State. Joe is a graduate of New York City·s
Advanced Tour-Guide Enhancement Course. In San
Francisco, Joe was in part responsible for San Francisco·s
first two historic district designations. Joe consulted with the restorations
of several San Francisco historic theatres following the devestating 1989
Loma Prieta Earthquake. In Los Angeles,
Joe, in consultation with ·Save the Broadway Theatres· (later to be folded
into The Los Angeles Conservancy) helped begin the early efforts to save
the Wiltern Theatre from demolition, and to find a future for the motion
picture palaces along Broadway. In the United
Kingdom, Joe is a member of the British Theatres Trust and
the British Cinema Theatre Association, and for several years was lecturer
on New York Theatre and Architecture · aboard the Cunard Line·s Queen
Elizabeth 2. Joe received a PhD in Medical Biochemistry from the Fels
Cancer Research Institute, jointly of the Medical Schools of Temple University
and University of Pennsylvania. It is Joe·s good fortune that a post-doctoral
research fellowship, at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, brought
him to New York.