Paul Wontorek

Paul Wontorek

 

Paul Wontorek recently celebrated 20 years as the founding Editor-in-Chief of Broadway.com, the premiere website covering the New York theater scene. He also hosts Show People with Paul Wontorek, a long-form interview talk show, where he has interviewed hundreds of film, TV and Broadway stars, On Broadway.com, he also hosts #LiveatFive, a daily news show. In 2019, Wontorek was nominated for a New York Emmy Award for Outstanding Program Host, having won an Emmy the prior year for writing and producing At the Tonys, a network Tony Awards special. He can now be seen on Broadway Profiles with Tamsen Fadal, the nationally-syndicated arts program that will start airing weekly coast-to-coast by January 2021. Recently, he was called “Broadway’s Most In-Demand Livestream Director” by Variety after earning attention for producing and directing several high-profile online specials during the COVID-19 pandemic including the critically-acclaimed Take Me to the World: A Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration, Buyer & Cellar (winner of a Time In Award for Best Live Play Reading by Time Out New York readers), a starry return of The Rosie O’Donnell Show and more.