Frederic B. Vogel

Who was Frederic B. Vogel?

Frederic B. Vogel was an American theatre producer, educator, actor, and founder of the Commercial Theater Institute, as well as the Federation for the Extension and Development of the American Professional Theatre.

Frederic B. Vogel was born in Philadelphia. He created the Commercial Theater Institute in 1982, the first workshop ever conducted to train producers for commercial Broadway, Off-Broadway, and road productions. These workshops have included seminar leaders including producers, general managers, theater owners, press agents, literary agents, theatrical attorneys, etc., in the commercial theater. Over fifty participants in these programs have gone on to produce with distinction On and Off-Broadway.

Having invested in over fifty Broadway and Off-Broadway productions, Vogel co-produced the Tony Award-nominated Marlene, and co-produced the Lucille Lortel Award winning "Shakespeare’s R&J" Off-Broadway, R.T. Robinson’s The Cover of Life in the fall of 1994 at the American Place Theater, as well as co-produced the Off-Broadway musical Lust in June 1995. For seventeen years, Mr.