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Carl Schmehl is an American stage director, choreographer andproducer. He is the artistic director of The Manhattan Plaza Theatre Project in New York City and the artistic director of thenonprofit Nantucket-based theater group "On The Isle"ontheisle.org. Carl is also thecreative director of The Shackman Group, an events a management company in New York City, a position he held for the past fifteen years. [www.shackmanny.com] Schmehl lives in New York City.[1]
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Schmehl attendedEmerson College. He started his show business career working with the national touring companies ofSugar Babies starringCarol Channing,Annie,A Chorus Line andWoman of the Year, starringLauren Bacall.
Schmehl began a twenty-year association with composerCharles Strouse when he directed Strouse's operaNightingale in Boston, Massachusetts. Schmehl had a six-month run with theBroadway production ofJoseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and worked for one year as audition choreographer for the show's national tour. He was stage manager and casting director for the Off-Broadway musicalWhen Pigs Fly and part of the producing team for theRadio City Music Hall's Christmas Spectacular.
His most recent theatre credits include director and choreographer of productions ofNunsense,The Actor's Nightmare,The Pirates of Penzance,Up in the Rafters, and the off-Broadway playAlmost Live from the Betty Ford Clinic. Schmehl has assisted Broadway director and choreographerGillian Lynne on productions in New York,San Diego, London andVienna. Most recently, he assistant directed Lynne's production of the musicalDear World in London's West End.
Schmehl's directing and choreography credits includeThe Bad Boy Club (Key West Theatre Festival),Rockwell (Maine andPort Chester, New York),The Aluminum Garden (Off-Broadway),It's All in the Book (Boston'sWang Center),Hello Dolly!,Tampa II (Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center),Vincentennial (Boston'sCutler Majestic Theatre),Follies (Bangor Opera House), and benefits for theAmerican Cancer Society (Charleston),United Cerebral Palsy (Tulsa),Good Samaritan's Bob Hope Awards, and others.
In the event industry, Schmehl has presented New York events and Industrials including: The Spiderman DVD release Party, "Fridays" 50th anniversary, Montefiore Hospitals 2017 gala, GT Nexus, Hilton Corporation, The Panasonic International Awards, Prudential At the Plaza, WPO, Johnson Controls, Outward Bound, Hershey, opening nights of Broadway'sGypsy, the moviesOnce Around,Havana, events for TiVo, Universal Studios, Yahoo! Dr. Pepper, New York Life, CNN, NBC, Hilton, Fox, MTV, Leading hotels of the World/Relais & Chateaux, Google, AMEX, Volkswagen, WBGO and Kiel's. He is Creative Director of Shackman Events, a division of Shackman Associates, a destination management and event company in New York.[citation needed]
Schmehl has had several cameo roles in Hollywood films. He was hit by a taxicab in the filmGhostbusters, punched out in the filmHeart withBrad Davis, and turned down for a date byMolly Ringwald inThe Pick-up Artist. He has also performed for theDesert Storm troops at McDill Air Force Base, is listed inWho's Who in Entertainment, and was featured in an article "hot shots" in theNew York Daily News.[citation needed]
