Peter Marx

Peter grew up in Morristown, New Jersey and received a bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan School of Music as a piano performance major. He competed in piano competitions before attending the Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theatre in New York City, where he studied with Sanford Meisner and Richard Pinter. Soon after he got a lead role in the Broadway show "On Your Toes", written and directed by the legendary George Abbott, then 95 years old, winning the Tony Award for best revival. Two years later he joined the Manhattan Rhythm Kings, and toured with Tommy Tune before landing the Donald O'Connor part, Cosmo Brown, in "Singin' in the Rain" on Broadway at the Gershwin Theatre, directed and choreographed by Twyla Tharp. After that he starred in "No Way to Treat a Lady" off-Broadway at the Hudson Guild, directed by Jack Hofsiss. He then performed opposite Jack Wagner at Goodspeed in "Butterfly"..."Animal Crackers" was next, playing Chico at the Huntington in Boston and the Alliance in Atlanta, followed by the role of Aldo in John Patrick Shanley's "Italian-American Reconciliation" at The Cleveland Playhouse. Peter moved to Los Angeles where his TV career started with playing one of the crazy secretaries on "Murphy Brown". While in LA he starred in "Stardust" at the Wilshire Theatre with Toni Tenille, Sean Young, and Hinton Battle, won a DramaLogue Award for playing both Chico and Harpo in Groucho: A Life in Review at La Mirada, and then went on to create roles in the American premiere of Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Sunset Boulevard" at the Shubert in LA starring Glenn Close and directed by Trevor Nunn. Hal Prince and Susan Stroman stole him from Sunset Blvd to play Frank in "Showboat" for them and after a year he was asked to play Chico Marx again, this time in the first ever Broadway revival of "The Cocoanuts" in New York City. He got an actual 'sign' to change his name from Slutsker to Marx, going through with it in '98. Then came the role of Charlie Davenport in "Annie Get Your Gun" with Bernadette Peters and Tom Wopat at the Marquis Theatre. Peter stayed the entire 3 year run and was then asked to be in Nora Ephron's and Marvin Hamlisch's "Imaginary Friends" at The Barrymore Theatre directed by Jack O'Brien. After that he went into "42nd Street" playing Andy Lee opposite Tom Wopat again. Finally, Daniel Sullivan asked him to be in Elaine May's "After the Night and the Music" at The Biltmore. Becoming a single dad, Peter left the biz to be home nights and weekends with his two daughters when they started high school. He fell into the world of executive search and is currently Senior Director of The Chef Agency, placing corporate, front and back of house positions for restaurants, hotels, resorts, and private clients, around the country.