GARRY MARSHALL is the founder of the Falcon Theatre in Burbank as well as a producer, director and writer of film, television and theatre. He has directed fourteen movies, including the box office hit PRETTY WOMAN with Julia Roberts and Richard Gere; FRANKIE & JOHNNY with Michelle Pfeiffer and Al Pacino; BEACHES with Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey; OVERBOARD with Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell; NOTHING IN COMMON with Tom Hanks and Jackie Gleason; THE FLAMINGO KID with Matt Dillon; YOUNG DOCTORS IN LOVE with Dabney Coleman and Sean Young; THE OTHER SISTER with Diane Keaton, Tom Skerritt and Juliette Lewis; RUNAWAY BRIDE, which reunited Garry with two old friends, Julia Roberts and Richard Gere; RAISING HELEN with Kate Hudson and John Corbett; and THE PRINCESS DIARIES, another box office success and his first "G" picture, starring Julie Andrews and Anne Hathaway. The latter’s sequel, THE PRINCESS DIARIES 2: ROYAL ENGAGEMENT, was Marshall’s most recent film for Disney and another box office hit. GEORGIA RULE, starring Jane Fonda, Lindsey Lohan and Felicity Huffman, opens in theaters in May of 2007.
A graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, Mr. Marshall created and was Executive Producer for some of the longest running and celebrated situation comedies in American television history, including HAPPY DAYS, LAVERNE & SHIRLEY, THE ODD COUPLE and MORK & MINDY. He is the recipient of the 1990 American Comedy Awards Lifetime Achievement Award, the 1992 Publicists Guild Motion Picture Showmanship Award and the 1995 Valentine Davies Award from the Writers Guild of America. In 1997 he was inducted into the Academy of Television, Arts and Sciences´ Hall of Fame, and in 1998 he was honored with the Producers Guild of America Lifetime Achievement Award for his work in television.
In 1997, Mr. Marshall built the Falcon Theatre with his daughter, Kathleen. His play WRONG TURN AT LUNGFISH, co-written with Lowell Ganz, ran successfully in Los Angeles, Chicago, Off-Broadway, and Australia, before playing at the Falcon Theatre in the fall of 2004, directed by Mr. Marshall and starring Hector Elizondo. THE ROAST, which he co-wrote with Jerry Belson, ran at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York. As a solo playwright, his play SHELVES ran at the Pheasant Run Playhouse in St. Charles, Illinois. Mr. Marshall also directed CRIMES OF THE HEART at the Falcon Theatre with Morgan Fairchild, Crystal Bernard, Faith Ford and Stephanie Niznik.
Mr. Marshall's opera career includes directing Jacques Offenbach´s THE GRAND DUCHESS, which opened the Los Angeles Opera´s 2005/06 season, as well as directing Donizetti´s opera, THE ELIXIR OF LOVE, for the San Antonio Opera in January 2008.
WAKE ME WHEN IT'S FUNNY, Mr. Marshall's memoir, which he co-wrote with his daughter Lori, is an account of his first 35 years in Hollywood. He has three children, four grandchildren and is still married to his first and only wife. His son Scott, a flim director, has directed KEEPING UP WITH THE STEINS with Jeremy Piven, Daryl Hannah, and Garry Marshall, and recently, BLONDE AMBITION, with Jessica Simpson, Luke Wilson and Willie Nelson.
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