TED SPERLING is a New York City-based director and conductor, with a forty-year career in music and theater. He is a Tony Award winner for his work on the groundbreaking Broadway musical, The Light in the Piazza, and is celebrating ten years as Artistic Director of MasterVoices. Maestro Sperling’s Broadway and off-Broadway credits include recent productions of the classics My Fair Lady, Fiddler on the Roof, The King and I, Guys and Dolls, How to Succeed… and South Pacific, as well as the new musicals Titanic, Ragtime, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Full Monty, Floyd Collins and A New Brain. As director, Mr. Sperling has led four off-Broadway productions, including See What I Wanna See at the Public Theater, starring Idina Menzel. With MasterVoices, he has brought to the NYC stage such rarities as Lady in the Dark, Anyone Can Whistle and Let ‘em Eat Cake.

Maestro Sperling’s symphonic and opera career include Carmen and Orfeo with MasterVoices, as well as performances with the Houston Grand Opera, The New York City Opera, The New York Philharmonic (including directing and conducting Show Boat for PBS), Chicago Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony and San Diego Symphony. He was principal conductor of the Westchester Philharmonic for six seasons. His program about Carole King, Beyond Beautiful, can be streamed on the PBS AllArts platform. Mr. Sperling can be seen as talk show host Steve Allen in Season Two of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.