ARTS & CULTURE WRITER 2016-Present
Interviews, criticism, essays and reported features:
- The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, Newsday, The Village Voice, Slate, CNN Travel, Condé Nast Traveler, Arts at MIT.
- Custom: Beyond (St. Regis), Departures (American Express), The National (Amtrak), Arrive (Amtrak), Rhapsody (United Airlines), Hemispheres (United Airlines), JWM (Marriott) and Douglas Elliman.
STAFF POSITIONS 2000-2016
Theater critic and features writer, New York Post (2009-2016)
Reviewing all Broadway plus major off and off-off Broadway shows. Contributing interviews and features on movies, TV, music and travel for both the print and online editions.
Arts & Entertainment Editor, Time Out New York (2003-2009)
Oversaw TONY’s entire cultural coverage and supervised its staff; top-edited and managed the art, books, clubs, comedy, dance, film, gay & lesbian, music (pop and classical) and theater sections; generated general features; wrote interviews, reviews and previews for the entire magazine.
Music Editor, Time Out New York (2000-2003)
Assigned and edited interviews, reviews and previews; oversaw and edited concert listings; fact-checked and proofread copy; supervised four staff music writers and 25 freelancers; managed the section’s budget.
ADDITIONAL BYLINES
- U.S.: The Los Angeles Times, Entertainment Weekly, The Believer, Budget Travel, Playbill, Rolling Stone, OUT, Seattle Weekly, San Francisco Bay Guardian, Salon, Amazon, Thirteen’s SundayArts blog.
- Worldwide: The Independent (U.K.), The Wire (U.K.), Obscena (Portugal), Les Inrockuptibles (France), Brutus (Japan), Globe (France).
BROADCAST 2016-Present
- Co-creator and co-host of the podcast Marks & Vincentelli with Peter Marks; co-creator and co-host of the podcast Three on the Aisle with Peter Marks and Terry Teachout.
- Regular guest and rotating co-host on the Emmy-winning TV show Theater Talk.
GUEST CURATOR 2018-2019
- Created blueprint and artifact list for an exhibit about contemporary Broadway musicals for the Museum of Pop Culture, Seattle.
BOOKS
- Mystery book project (Fall 2024; Melcher Media)
- 21 Things to Do When You Turn 21 (project editor; Sellers Publishing)
- ABBA Treasures (Omnibus; French, Spanish, Swedish and Norwegian translations)
- "Bulgarian Idol" in Best Music Writing 2007, Robert Christgau, ed. (Da Capo; reprint from The Believer magazine)
- Abba Gold (part of Continuum’s 33 1/3 imprint; audiobook; Japanese translation)
- "Impossible Princess" and "Try Out" in Lost in the Grooves: Scram's Capricious Guide to the Music You Missed, Kim Cooper and David Smay, eds. (Routledge)
- "Merry Melodies: Cartoon Music’s Contemporary Resurgence" in The Cartoon Music Book, Daniel Goldmark and Yuval Taylor, eds. (A Cappella Books)
- 130 entries in The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll, Holly George-Warren and Patricia Romanowski, eds. (Simon & Schuster)
- “Wir wollen unseren Techno-Papp” in Lips. Tits. Hips. Power? Popkultur und Feminismus, Anette Baldauf and Katharina Weingarten, eds. (Folio, Vienna, Austria)
- Six entries in European Immigrant Women in the United States from the American Revolution to the Present, Judy Barrett Litoff and Judith McDonnell, eds. (Garland)
PANELS, MEDIA APPEARANCES AND ORGANIZATIONS
- Vice-President, New York Drama Critics’ Circle (2009 – 2016)
- Select panels: interview with Lynn Nottage for the League of Professional Theatre Women's Oral History Project; Polar Music Prize talk with John Seabrook and Jan Gradvall; Q&A with Robert Morse (BAM), “Reading Between the Lines: Ethnomusicology and Music Journalism” (Society for Ethnomusicology’s annual meeting), Q&A with Paul Morrissey and Holly Woodlawn.
- Member of the Advisory Review Panel for Cycle II of the New York State Music Fund, which granted $19 million for performances, presentations, commissions and educational programs throughout New York State.
- WNYC; NPR’s All Things Considered; WCBS; BBC; France Inter, France Musique (French public radios); RTL (France); co-producer, 2008 election night on francophone channel TV5 Monde.
LINER NOTES
- ABBA Gold (Universal); various artists: Pop Romantique (March); Serge Gainsbourg: Couleur Café (Mercury); Linda Smith: Preference (Harriet)
EDUCATION
- M.A. in history, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J.
- B.A. in history and political science, Sciences Po, Paris, France