Joe Masteroff

Joe Masteroff ( born December 11, 1919 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ) is an American playwright.

Masteroff served during the Second World War in the United States Air Force after the war, he studied from 1949 to 1951 theaters, a course that was offered at that time by the Theatre Association American Theatre Wing in New York. Masteroff began his career as an actor and worked as an assistant at Howard Lindsay later. In 1953 he made ​​his Broadway debut in Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse Comedy The Prescott Proposals.

His first Broadway play The Warm Peninsula with Julie Harris, June Havoc, Farley Granger and Larry Hagman came out in 1959 in the roles. In 1963 he wrote the book for the Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick musical She Loves Me, which earned him a Tony Award nomination for Best Musical author. 1966 commissioned Harold Prince, who had acquired the rights to John Van Drutens play I Am a Camera, Masteroff to write the book for the musical Cabaret, should write the score ( score ) for the John Kander and Fred Ebb. Cabaret was a great success and won the 1967 Tony for Best Musical. Master offs next and last project was the Broadway musical 70, Girls, 70 of 1971, which was also written in collaboration with Kander and Ebb.