Martin Eli Segal (July 4, 1916 – August 5, 2012) was a
Russian Empire
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-born American businessman who co-founded the
Film Society of Lincoln Center in 1969 with two other
Lincoln Center
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executives,
William F. May and
Schuyler G. Chapin
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.
He also served as the Film Society's founding president and CEO until 1978.
Segal was founding chair of the Commission for Cultural Affairs, the Cultural Assistance Center, and the New York International Festival of the Arts.
Segal was born in
Vitebsk
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, ,
Russian Empire
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(now located in present-day
Belarus
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), in 1916 and immigrated to the United States.
[ He is a former ]Associated Press
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columnist and founder of human resource and benefits consulting firm, The Segal Group
Segal (formerly Segal Rogercasey prior to 2017) is a benefits and human resources consulting firm headquartered in New York City, with more than 1,000 employees throughout the U.S. and Canada. It is the parent of Segal Marco Advisors and Segal Ben ...
, which he founded in October 1939.[ Segal served as the General Chairman of the ''Night of 100 Stars II'' on February 17, 1985, the first AIDS benefit held by the ]Actors' Fund of America
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.[
The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center (MESTC), located at the ]CUNY Graduate Center
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in New York City, was renamed for Segal in March 1999.[ It was founded as the Center for Advanced Studies in Theatre Arts (CASTA) in 1979. He died at his Manhattan home in 2012. He was 96.
The Martin E. Segal Awards were established by Lincoln Center’s Board when Mr. Segal retired as Chairman in 1986. Marking the commitment of the late Mr. Segal to support rising artists, Lincoln Center’s 11 resident organizations nominate an artist annually for the distinguished prize, which gives financial assistance and recognition to young artists of exceptional accomplishment. Martin E. Segal Award recipients include:
Melissa Aldana]
References
External links
Martin E. Segal papers, 1929–2012
Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library
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1916 births
2012 deaths
American businesspeople
Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United States
Belarusian Jews
American people of Belarusian-Jewish descent