L Marc Fields

Marc Fields is a writer, producer, and director of arts and cultural documentaries and the winner of five regional Emmys for his work on PBS. He is the creator and curator of The Banjo Project: Stories of America’s Instrument, an innovative interactive digital museum with major funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities. His 90-minute music history Give Me the Banjo , narrated by Steve Martin, with Pete Seeger, Earl Scruggs, Bela Fleck and Rhiannon Giddens, aired on national PBS and was distributed on iTunes, Amazon, Netflix and Mubi. Previously, Fields wrote the scripts for two episodes of the landmark six-part PBS series, Broadway: The American Musical, which received a primetime national Emmy for Outstanding Nonfiction Series.

Fields’ production credits include over 80 episodes as a Series Producer for State of the Arts, a weekly arts magazine on New Jersey Public Television. He is the co-author of the award-winning biography/theater history From the Bowery to Broadway: Lew Fields and the Roots of American Popular Theater, (Oxford University Press, 1993), and is a frequent consultant for programs about American popular entertainment.

Fields previously taught screenwriting and production at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, the New School and at Concord Academy.