Gordon Cox Email & Phone Number

New York, United States

Creator and sole writer behind Jaques, a bestselling, weekly subscription newsletter about the global theater industry. Each week I generate richly detailed reporting on the international theater business, leveraging unparalleled access to the biggest names in the industry to make Jaques a unique, useful source of theater news, interviews, insights, market research and analysis you won’t find anywhere else.

New York

• Deepened brand engagement and generated ad revenue as the creator, talent booker and host of Stagecraft With Gordon Cox, a star-studded, award-winning theater podcast with more 500K downloads.• Led compelling video conversations for the Variety Streaming Room series of virtual events (165K+ total attendees across 200 events)• Drove event sponsorship as a community liaison and panel moderator for live events including Legit! The Return to Broadway (Oct. 2021), headlined by Andrew Lloyd Webber• Programmed and booked A-list talent for the Variety on Broadway series of sponsored editorial content• Cultivated a team of world-class theater critics by assigning and editing the paper’s theater reviews and recruiting new, diverse talent across the globe

• Led Broadway coverage for Variety magazine and Variety.com (~25 million unique monthly users) by generating, reporting, writing, assigning and editing an average of 30-50 posts a month• Coordinated breaking news packages for digital, print and social for the Tony Awards and other industry events• Wrote cover stories on diverse topics ranging from a deep-dive analysis of the business between Hollywood and Broadway to an intimate feature with Lin-Manuel Miranda• Served as an authoritative expert and brand representative with appearances on CNN, NPR, NY1 and more• Crafted compelling content across print and audio platforms with top-line talent including Andrew Garfield, Tina Fey, Audra McDonald, Tom Hiddleston, Keegan-Michael Key, Daniel Radcliffe, Chris Evans and Glenn Close

• Moderated thought-leading panels with major artists and executives for Netflix, C2 Montréal, Cirque du Soleil, Ucross Foundation and New York Stage and Film• Served as a consultant with Lia Vollack Productions• Wrote and edited news and content marketing pieces for Broadway Direct, Broadway News and more

• Covered breaking New York theater industry news ranging from the Tony Awards to 9/11 to the 2003 Broadway musicians’ strike• Wrote feature articles and cover stories for the entertainment section• Reviewed Off Broadway productions (75-100 reviews per year), with occasional Broadway and out-of-town assignments• Reported and wrote the weekly theater news column, Play by Play, for the 2002-03 and 2003-04 seasons

• Played an integral role in the copy flow on the National Desk and Foreign Desk• Wrote Page A2 news summaries for foreign news

• Produced artist talkback events and an international symposium• Created and edited promotional copy for conferences and other events

• Led scheduling of all classes and rehearsals for the graduate acting program• Generated departmental correspondence, announcements and PR texts• Wrote sections of the handbook for incoming students• Wrote lead features for Preview, the theater’s subscriber newsletter.

• Evaluated French and English texts considered for publication• Translated, from French to English, pitches for new series of books• Proofread and corrected editor’s reviews of texts