HUGO SIX

Producers Isaac Robert Hurwitz and Seth A. Goldstein announce the launch of Hugo Six, a transmedia production company with Broadway content and talent at its core. Co-founded by Hurwitz and Goldstein, the company is dedicated to creating diverse and dynamic content for the stage and screen that will captivate, enlighten and inspire contemporary audiences. Hugo Six has a musical television property and several new Broadway-aimed musicals on its development slate.

Isaac Robert Hurwitz is a creative producer with over two decades of experience producing acclaimed new work and leading successful entertainment businesses. As SVP of Twentieth Century Fox’s live stage division, he oversaw all stage adaptations of the studio’s films from 2013 until the studio’s purchase by Disney last year. He developed the Broadway-bound adaptations of The Devil Wears Prada, The Secret Life of Bees, and Working Girl, working with such world-renowned artists as Elton John, Cyndi Lauper, Lynn Nottage, and Duncan Sheik. For Fox, Isaac also provided creative supervision on the Broadway adaptations of Moulin Rouge and Anastasia, and produced Ivo van Hove’s stage version of All About Eve, which broke box office records in London’s West End. As an independent producer, Isaac is currently represented on Broadway by Water for Elephants, and in London’s West End by Mrs. Doubtfire, a project he originally developed for Fox. Isaac was also a lead producer of the smash hit, Gutenberg! The Musical! Isaac received a special Drama Desk Award for his decade leading The New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF), which he co-founded. He premiered over 350 new musicals at NYMF, many of which (including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Next to Normal) have garnered further productions on Broadway, off-Broadway, and around the world. In 2005, NYMF was awarded the $100,000 Jujamcyn Theaters Prize for its contributions to the art form. Isaac has developed work for several leading non-profit theaters and was an advisory board member for City Center’s Encores! series for seven years. He has guest taught at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Columbia University’s MFA program in Producing, and Brown University’s theater department, and is an alumnus of Brown University, the Lincoln Center Directors’ Lab, and the Commercial Theatre Institute.

Seth A. Goldstein is a two-time Tony Award-winning, multiplatform producer with a history of significant artistic and management achievement. Credits as a producer on Broadway include Water for Elephants, Gutenberg! The Musical!, The Lehman Trilogy (Tony Award); The Prom (Tony nomination); Hello, Dolly! (Tony Award); A Doll’s House, Part 2 (Tony nomination); The Glass Menagerie; The Front Page; and Steve Martin’s Meteor Shower. Seth developed and produces “The Moblees,” an award-winning preschool television show with 50 episodes now airing and streaming on CBC in Canada, AmebaTV in the US, and globally on YouTube. The Moblees brand also includes two albums of songs (Juno Award nomination), an award-winning iPad app, music videos, non-profit partnerships, and a history of live appearances in venues as diverse as the White House, the United Arab Emirates, and Austin City Limits. Seth’s work has consistently achieved critical and popular acclaim. He helped develop Avenue Q, contributing as a writer, and producing and directing the developmental workshops. His first commercial producing effort, the West End and UK tour of Shakespeare’s R&J, was heralded by the Evening Standard as, “absolutely brilliant…a knock-out!” Seth’s follow-up, Christine Jorgensen Reveals, played three engagements Off-Broadway, received the Drama Desk Award, and toured regionally and internationally. At The Splinter Group, a theatrical general management firm Seth ran for eight years before merging it with Daryl Roth Productions, he acted as the CFO and COO of nearly 50 production entities in New York, London, Las Vegas, and on the road. Seth is an alumnus of Ithaca College, the Broadway League’s Producer Development Program, and the Commercial Theatre Institute.

In a joint statement, Hurwitz and Goldstein said, “Coming up in this business together – first in the not-for-profit world and then in commercial production – we’ve been in alignment for many years. With Isaac’s studio background and Seth’s experience producing for a variety of platforms, we each developed a keen orientation toward transmedia storytelling. Now, we’re excited to bring together our overlapping, but distinct, skills and networks to support impactful new projects and voices.”

Hugo Six is headquartered in New York City.

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