Neal Marshad

Marshad was born on April 25, 1952, in Peekskill, New York, the son of Ruth Marshad and Look (American magazine) art director and graphic designer Jack Marshad.{{Cite web|url=https://breuer.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=mets/19321.mets.xml;query=marshad;brand=breuer/|title=Syracuse University Marcel Breuer Archive}} Marshad grew up in Croton-on-Hudson, New York, and since 1975 Marshad resides in Tribeca in Lower Manhattan, New York City. Starting in 1971, Marshad attended New York University, Tisch School of the Arts for Film and TV, and earned a bachelor's degree in film. Marshad was mentored by professor George C. Stoney who taught documentary filmmaking. Marshad's audio engineering professor was Lee Osborne. Marshad's classmates included Barry Sonnenfeld, Amy Heckerling, Susan Seidelman, Martin Brest, Mitchell Block and Leonard Maltin. Marshad married Erica (née Klapper) Marshad, MSW in 1983 and they have two sons, Cameron Marshad and Tyler Marshad.

After graduating New York University Tisch School of the Arts in 1974, Marshad photographed and directed a PBS documentary, Sculpture by Isaac Witkin{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0498018/|title=Sculpture by Isaac Witkin|date=May 18, 1976|via=IMDb}} about Isaac Witkin that premiered in the United States on Public Broadcasting Service on October 19, 1976, and at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on November 7, 1976. Witkin attended the Metropolitan Museum screening and followed with a Q&A .{{Cite web|url=https://cmoa-records-images.s3.amazonaws.com/download/fv001_001_002_B003_004.pdf|title=Film and Video Makers Travel Sheet September 1976|date=September 1, 1976|website=Film Section Museum of Art Carnegie Institute}}

Beginning in 1978, Marshad produced and photographed films for NBC's Saturday Night Live over a 47-year period, commencing with "Java Junkie" a Schiller's Reel short film featuring Peter Aykroyd and Teri Garr.{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0441842/|title=Best of Schiller's Reel|date=May 18, 1994|via=IMDb}} File:Neal Marshad.png

Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes commissioned Marshad to direct a documentary film including a live broadcast concert at the Asbury Park Convention Hall on August 8, 1979. The film was first shown in January 1980 on WarnerMedia's Qube (cable television).{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1527833/|title=Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes at the Asbury Park Convention Center|date=October 27, 1979|via=IMDb}}

In 1981 critically acclaimed German director Wim Wenders hired Marshad to provide film post-production services and post-production audio engineering services for The State of Things (film) and Wenders edited the film in Marshad's 35mm edit room in New York City.{{Cite web| url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084725/fullcredits/|title=The State of Things|date=January 12, 1982|via=IMDb}}

In January 1982, The Steinettes collaborated with Marshad. He produced and engineered a recording of twenty songs performed by The Steinettes in his studio at 295 West 4th Street in Greenwich Village in New York City.

In 1982, Marshad won his first Emmy Award for outstanding achievement in directing and cinematography for his work for CBS Sports Super Bowl XVI{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0439836/|title=Super Bowl XVI|date=January 24, 1982|via=IMDb}}

In 1982, Marshad formed Neal Marshad Productions, and began directing and producing films for IBM in the US and Europe using the ARPANET to facilitate global communications between crews and clients. IBM commissioned Marshad to direct a documentary film about architect Renzo Piano{{cite web | url=https://archleague.org/article/renzo-piano-building-workshop-selected-projects-part-3/?printpage=true | title=Renzo Piano Building Workshop Selected Projects: Part 3 - The Architectural League of New York}} and the IBM Traveling Technology Pavilion in Paris.

In 1984 Marshad collaborated with actor/producer Michael Douglas,{{cite AV media| url-status = live| archive-url = https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211209/VcePNmlR4vU| archive-date = 2021-12-09| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcePNmlR4vU| title = Handguns Aren't the Answer (Trailer) | website=YouTube}}{{cbignore}} Betsy Gotbaum, and Rolling Stone Magazine's publisher Jann Wenner, and the New York City Police Department to produce and direct a documentary film about handgun ownership {{cite AV media| url-status = live| archive-url = https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211209/Y-Nu286Arvw| archive-date = 2021-12-09| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-Nu286Arvw| title = Hand Guns Aren't the Answer | website=YouTube}}{{cbignore}} dedicated to John Lennon.{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0437212/|title = Handguns Aren't the Answer (TV Short 1984) - IMDb|website = IMDb}}

In 1989, Marshad produced and directed the PBS television documentary The Conspiracy of Silence {{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0420561/|title = The Conspiracy of Silence (Video 1995) - IMDb|website = IMDb}} with actress Kathleen Turner. File:Kathleen Turner and Neal Marshad 1996.png

In 1989 and 1990, Marshad produced, directed and photographed two standup comedy specials hosted by The Improv comedy club founder Budd Friedman and sponsored by Johnnie Walker as a way for talent scouts from The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and Star Search to book up and coming standup talent. The one-hour specials were broadcast respectively on The Comedy Channel in 1989 and on Comedy Central in 1990, for which Marshad directed then unknown comedians Steve Harvey,Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211209/tk2byOIRjds Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20200615222531/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk2byOIRjds&gl=US&hl=en Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite AV media| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk2byOIRjds| title = Steve Harvey Performance 1990 | website=YouTube}}{{cbignore}} Ray Romano, Brian Kiley, Judd Apatow and Ellen Cleghorne.{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0437048/|title = 1989 Johnnie Walker National Comedy Search (TV Movie 1989) - IMDb|website = IMDb}}

In 1993, while working for IBM Latin America, and directing a documentary film about making the Vatican Library accessible online,{{cite AV media| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170713052140/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYvLhD8YHL0| archive-date = 2017-07-13| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYvLhD8YHL0| title = YouTube, a Google company | website=YouTube}}{{cbignore}} Marshad pioneered streaming video on the internet, and was first to stream a video on a BBC’s website in 1995.

On December 17, 1995, the New York Times reported on a group art show and published Marshad's photograph. The photograph was of Denise Brown’s hands wearing the bracelet her sister Nicole Brown Simpson wore when she was slain. Another photograph Marshad created, one depicting the hands of Jerry Della Femina, was also included in the show "Nonviolent Hands" at the Vered Gallery, East Hampton, New York.

{{Cite web|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1995/12/17/016977.html?pageNumber=265|title=Long Iland Journal|work=The New York Times |date=December 17, 1995}}

In 1996, Marshad formed The Marshad Technology Group, a digital agency, and was hired by clients including Chanel, Neiman Marcus, Beiersdorf La Prairie,{{cite web |url=http://laprairie.com/ |title=La Prairie Home Page |website=laprairie.com |access-date=12 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19971222044748/http://laprairie.com/ |archive-date=22 December 1997 |url-status=dead}} and the BBC to strategize, create and launch their internet businesses. In the same year, he was commissioned by Speedo, the swimwear manufacturer, to create and launch Speedo.com.{{cite web |url=http://www.speedo.com/ |title=Archived copy |website=www.speedo.com |access-date=12 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19961227104843/http://www.speedo.com/ |archive-date=27 December 1996 |url-status=dead}} Marshad was the first to enable email communication between Olympic Games athletes and sports fans online, for the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia.

In 1997, Marshad started to collaborate with playwright Edward Albee and Martha Wadsworth Coigney Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211209/vuRsr_ijoBM Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20190124172233/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuRsr_ijoBM&gl=US&hl=en Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite AV media| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuRsr_ijoBM| title = A Celebration of the Life of Martha Coigney—LaMaMa—New York City—Monday, July 11, 2016 | website=YouTube}}{{cbignore}} to create the first website for the International Theatre Institute.{{Cite web|url=https://www.iti-worldwide.org/|title=International Theatre Institute ITI|website=www.iti-worldwide.org}} The goal of the website was to promote open and free communications among playwrights, actors, directors and all people working in theater around the world. For that effort, Marshad directed and streamed audio interviews which he recorded of Albee. This was the first recorded performance Albee allowed to be published on the web.

In 1998, Marshad worked as segment producer and cinematographer on the TV special Saturday Night Live: The Best of Phil Hartman,{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0500148/|title = Saturday Night Live: The Best of Phil Hartman (TV Special 1998) - IMDb|website = IMDb}} collaborating with writer/director Tom Schiller and actors Phil Hartman and Jan Hooks which became the last tribute to Hartman in a special send off by all the current and past SNL cast members who worked with Hartman including Candice Bergen, Dana Carvey, Danny DeVito, Will Ferrell, Chris Kattan, Steve Martin, Mike Myers, Chris Rock, Adam Sandler, and William Shatner. Al Franken was one of the writers as well as Conan O'Brien and others.

{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3677742/|title = Saturday Night Live: 40th Anniversary Special (TV Special 2015) - IMDb|website = IMDb}}

Marshad was director of photography (videographer) for the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education interviews of Martin Greenfield in Westhampton, New York. Under the direction of Steven Spielberg, the Foundation has collected the permanent testimony of over 52,000 holocaust survivors, liberators, rescuers, and war crimes trial participants.{{Cite web|url=https://sfi.usc.edu/|title=USC Shoah Foundation|website=USC Shoah Foundation}}

Marshad collaborated again with playwright Edward AlbeeArchived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211209/ozGT1ZNjXfY Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20200527053712/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozGT1ZNjXfY&gl=US&hl=en Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite AV media| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozGT1ZNjXfY| title = Edward Albee improvs as a Hungarian poet, a terrorist, and someone speaking to a deer. | website=YouTube}}{{cbignore}} to direct videos of his performances at the Jack Lenor Larsen sculpture garden at LongHouse Reserve, East Hampton, New York in 1999.{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0437417/|title = Performance by Edward Albee (Video 1999) - IMDb|website = IMDb}}

Marshad was hired in October 1999 by Janet Gurwitch, founder of Laura Mercier Cosmetics to provide strategy, design and technology for www.lauramercier.com.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lauramercier.com/|title=Laura Mercier | Artistry Makeup, Skincare & Cosmetics|website=www.lauramercier.com}}

In June, 2000 Marshad developed an animated TV series "Walter Miller Homepage" with writer David Sampugnaro and animators Yvette Kaplan, Tony Eastman, Rick Mischel, and Willy Hartland. The show was based on a web property created by Sampugnaro, the five-time Jeopardy! winner and Ultimate Tournament of Champions player. Marshad and Sampugnaro sold the rights to the show to The Harvey Entertainment Company which was Harvey’s first production meant for primetime television.{{cite web | title= Variety.com reporting: "Harvey nabs rights to comedy website" | url= https://www.variety.com/2000/digital/news/harvey-nabs-rights-to-comedy-web-site-1117782414/}}

In September 2001, Marshad collaborated with actor Jerry Stiller,Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211209/lj26LDPOfKM Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20140626054952/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj26LDPOfKM Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite AV media| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj26LDPOfKM| title = Get off your Tuchas! - Jerry Stiller | website=YouTube}}{{cbignore}} jazz singer Cassandra WilsonArchived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211209/HuBooT9K3Ic Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20140626054957/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuBooT9K3Ic Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite AV media| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuBooT9K3Ic&list=PL8gzlaUo4mTlTXdqdB3jvculwR5rbJtE3| title = Cassandra Wilson: "Sing With Your Neighbors" | website=YouTube}}{{cbignore}} and actress Kathleen Turner,{{cite AV media| url-status = live| archive-url = https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211209/KE-RBYhTf10| archive-date = 2021-12-09| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE-RBYhTf10| title = Kathleen Turner "NYC: What Can I Do?" directed by Neal Marshad | website=YouTube}}{{cbignore}} to direct and produce "What Can I Do?" a public service television campaign for the Citizens Committee for New York City to help residents recover from the destruction of the September 11 attacks. File:Jerry Stiller and Neal Marshad in New York City 2001.jpg Marshad previously collaborated with the Citizens Committee for New York City starting in 1977 Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211209/izXpDT3vg00 Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20200520202105/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izXpDT3vg00 Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite AV media| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izXpDT3vg00| title = Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara "Homestead" tv spot directed by Neal Marshad | website=YouTube}}{{cbignore}} to help NYC residents recover from New York City blackout of 1977 and David Berkowitz (the "Son of Sam") and created the "Who Cares About NYC?" public service television campaign with Diane von Fürstenberg, Otto Preminger, Robert Merrill, Jack Gilford, Dina Merrill, Cliff Robertson, Gato Barbieri, Alan King, Robert Klein, Henny Youngman, and others.{{cite AV media| url-status = live| archive-url = https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211209/jL6HwElvRqY| archive-date = 2021-12-09| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jL6HwElvRqY| title = Who Cares About NYC? an ad campaign directed by Neal Marshad | website=YouTube}}{{cbignore}} The ad campaign Marshad directed was awarded by Art Directors Club of New York and included in its 57th Annual Exhibition in 1978. Marshad's TV spot directorial work for the "Who Cares About NYC?" public service campaign is in the permanent collection of the Paley Center for Media formerly the Museum of Television & Radio and the Museum of Broadcasting.{{Cite web|url=https://www.paleycenter.org/collection/item?item=AT%3A22419.036/|title=Who Cares About NYC?|website=www.paleycenter.org}}

Marshad is currently an executive producer for Eurocinema, the Video-On-Demand television network available specializing in European box office films that is in 35 million United States homes.{{Cite web|url=https://www.eurocinema.com/|title=EUROCINEMA-USA - Award Winning Films - HOME|website=www.eurocinema.com}}

In August 2011 Marshad signed an agreement with the Apollo Theater to exclusively direct, develop, joint venture and produce musical and comedy filmed entertainment for online streaming to worldwide audiences.{{Cite web|url=https://www.apollotheater.org/|title=The Apollo: The Soul of American Culture|website=Apollo Theater}}

In 2012 Marshad worked as segment producer, segment director, and segment director of photography for a TV special produced by and starring Steve Harvey.{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5076692/|title = "Steve Harvey" Steve Celebrates His 30-Year Anniversary of Stand-Up Comedy/Dream Date/Sammy Hagar/Love Connection (TV Episode 2015) - IMDb|website = IMDb}}

The Marshad Technology Group achieved Google Partner status in March, 2014. Marshad was asked, in May 2014, to become DOWNTOWN magazine's Digital Media Advisor, and was offered a board position.{{Cite web|url=https://issuu.com/downtownmagazine/docs/issuue_edition|title=022 Downtown Magazine NYC Spring 2017 by Downtown Magazine NYC - Issuu|website=issuu.com|date=31 May 2017 }}

On October 11, 2014, "Love is a Dream", a film Marshad produced and photographed, was broadcast on Saturday Night Live as a tribute to former cast member Jan Hooks who died on October 8, 2014.{{Cite web|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/10/love-is-a-dream-jan-hooks-phil-hartman_n_5967454.html|title = If You've Never Seen This, Get Ready to Cry|website = HuffPost|date = 10 October 2014}} The film was included in the Saturday Night Live 25th Anniversary Special airing on September 25, 1999{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0500149/|title = Saturday Night Live 25 (TV Special 1999) - IMDb|website = IMDb}} which won the 2000 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Special.{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0500149/awards/|title = Saturday Night Live 25 - IMDb|website = IMDb}} and the show was nominated for the 2000 Emmy Award for Outstanding Technical Direction, Camerawork, Video for a Miniseries, Movie or Special. "Love is a Dream" was also included in the Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary Special which aired on February 15, 2015 and the Saturday Night Live 50th Anniversary Special which aired February 16, 2025.{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072562/|title = Saturday Night Live (TV Series 1975– ) - IMDb|website = IMDb}}

Steve Harvey and Deep Dish Productions of Chicago, LLC contracted with Marshad in October 2015 to provide Segment Producer/Director/Director of Photography services for The Steve Harvey Show on NBC.

In June 2016, Marshad was named to the International Advisory Board of LongHouse Reserve, by Jack Lenor Larsen, East Hampton (town), New York.{{Cite web|url=https://longhouse.org/pages/who-we-are|title=Who We Are|website=LongHouse Reserve}}

In November 2016, Microsoft asked Marshad to become a Microsoft Bing Partner Agency.{{Cite web|url=https://advertise.bingads.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/bing-partner-program/partner-directory?page=4|title = Online directory for the Microsoft Advertising Partner Program}}

On November 20, 2021, "Java Junkie", a film Marshad produced and photographed featuring actress Teri Garr, was broadcast on Saturday Night Live (season 47) as a tribute to former cast member and writer Peter Aykroyd, brother of original Not Ready for Primetime Player Dan Aykroyd, who died on November 6, 2021. Before the show ends, a photo by Neal Marshad of Peter Aykroyd is shown in silence. SNL also posted the film as an online tribute on X, formerly called Twitter.{{cite web |title="The Java Junkie" |url=https://twitter.com/nbcsnl/status/1462309004974202884 |website=Twitter |publisher=SNL on X |access-date=21 November 2021}}{{cite magazine |last1=Hoglund |first1=Andy |title=Saturday Night Live recap: Billie Eilish is the latest guest to pull double duty |url=https://ew.com/tv/recaps/saturday-night-live-season-47-episode-8/ |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |publisher=Entertainment Weekly |access-date=21 December 2021}}{{Cite web|url=https://twitter.com/nbcsnl/status/1462309004974202884|title= Saturday Night Live The Java Junkie}}{{cite news|url = https://deadline.com/2021/11/peter-aykroyd-dead-saturday-night-live-pays-tribute-to-former-cast-member-writer-1234878310/|title = Peter Aykroyd Dies: 'Saturday Night Live' Pays Tribute To Former Cast Member & Writer|last = Del Rosario|first = Alexandra|date = November 20, 2021|accessdate = November 20, 2021|work = Deadline Hollywood}}

{{reflist}}

• https://www.marshad.com
• Entertainment Tonight interviews Denise Brown, Kathleen Turner and Neal Marshad June 29, 1995 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1093573/
• [https://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/26/business/media/news-from-the-advertising-industry.html NYTimes.com News From the Advertising Industry article]
• [https://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Marshad-Technology-Group-Neal-Marshad-Productions/118445478188928?ref=ts Marshad Technology Group/Neal Marshad Productions' Facebook Page]
• [https://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/20/fashion/20TEENS.html?_r=1 NYTimes.com Style Section article]
• [https://www.steveharvey.com/ Steve Harvey Official Website]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuBooT9K3Ic Cassandra Wilson: "Sing With Your Neighbors"] Cassandra Wilson "Sing With Your Neighbors" TV spot
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj26LDPOfKM Get off your Tuchas! - Jerry Stiller] Jerry Stiller "Get Off Your Tuchas!" TV spot
• [https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/watch-jan-hooks-and-phil-hartman-in-the-weird-gorgeous-1644570315 Watch Jan Hooks And Phil Hartman In The Weird, Gorgeous Love Is A Dream]
• [https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live Saturday Night Live - NBC.com]
• https://www.newsday.com/entertainment/tv/jan-hooks-phil-hartman-in-saturday-night-live-s-love-is-a-dream-1.9488676
• [https://www.hulu.com/watch/698984 Saturday Night Live] "Love is a Dream"
• [https://www.cinemablend.com/television/best-pre-recorded-moments-snl-history "Love is a Dream" named one of the best pre-recorded moments in SNL history. - CinemaBlend.com]
• [https://www.salon.com/2025/01/16/snl50-beyond-saturday-night-like-its-inspiration-is-pleasant-uneven-and-occasionally-inspired/ "Love Is a Dream" a fantastic 1987 swoon into a bygone era and lost youth featuring Jan Hooks, Phil Hartman, a romantic Bing Crosby track and a tiara in a safety deposit box. - Salon.com]
• [https://www.longhouse.org/pages/who-we-are Who We Are] "International Advisory Board, LongHouse Reserve
• [https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/saturday-night-live-recap-billie-043014765.html Saturday Night Live recap: Billie Eilish is the latest guest to pull double duty]

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