Bill Rosenfield(I)
- Editorial Department
- Additional Crew
Began his career as an office boy for Broadway and Film producers Edgar Lansbury & Joseph Beruh where among other duties he typed the end credits for their film He Knows You're Alone and added his name as Post-Production Assistant. he left Lansbury/Beruh to work for two years in the Play Department at the New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theatre as assistant to Gail Merrifield Papp. He left there and went to work for film producer Howard Gottfried for whom he was an Assistant as well as Story Editor bringing a number of projects to his attention: The Men's Club by Leonard Michaels and Harvey Fierstein's Torch Song Trilogy among them. While working with Howard he coordinated all of the elements for the Academy Award nominated soundtrack to the film Altered States for RCA Red Seal. He later co-wrote a screenplay entitled TRAX which was optioned by Motown Motion Pictures (but never made). Following this he began work at RCA Red Seal/BMG Classics as the coordinator of album packages for the Broadway show reissue series on compact disc. This freelance stint evolved into his eventually becoming the Senior Vice-President of Shows and Soundtracks for RCA Victor/BMG Classics. Among the film soundtrack recordings for which he was responsible are: The Full Monty ( Academy Award) The Thin Red Line ( Oscar nomination) Living Out Loud, Everyone Says I Love You, Gods and Monsters, Brassed Off, Queer as Folk, Independence Day ( Grammy Award) , The Cat's Meow, and Return to Me and the reissues of the soundtracks of the first three Star Wars films. Additionally he was responsible for over 65 Broadway cast recordings (Chicago, Avenue Q, Songs for a New World, Fosse, Ragtime, The Who's Tommy) which garnered over 30 Grammy nominations. In 2002 he relocated from New York to London and soon there after began pursuing a career as a playwright. His semi-autobiographical play 46 Beacon was presented in the West End in 2016 to considerable acclaim.