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Antonio R. Marion (Tony) Was born on August 29th, 1991 in Canton, Ohio, USA where he grew up until the age of 18. Marion is among some of the youngest producers ever to work on Broadway, decorated with a Tony Award Nomination, Drama Desk Award Nomination & two Drama League Award Nominations . Tony, as he is known to most of the theatrical community has a true love for the business of producing, a dream he has chased since the age of seven. In 2011 after moving to New York City after graduation from High School Marion made his Producing debut with the Whoopi Goldberg lead musical "White Noise", which played the Royal George Theatre in Chicago in preparation for a Broadway transfer. 2012 proved to be Marion's biggest year, making his Broadway Producing debut with the first ever Revival of "Evita" starring Grammy Award Winner Ricky Martin, Olivier Award Winner Elena Roger & Tony Award Winner Michael Cerveris. The show's creative team includes Tony & Olivier Award Winners Michael Grandage (Director), Rob Ashfrod (Choreographer), Neil Austin (Lighting Design), Christopher Oram (Production Designer, and the world famous Andrew Lloyd Webber (Music). . That same year Marion gained his second Broadway Producing credit, Co-Producing the London West End transfer of the new musical "Ghost" which featured music by Grammy Award Winners Dave Steward & Glenn Ballard with a book by Academy Award Winner Bruce Joel Rubin. 2012 also proved to be a year of diversifying, as Marion made his London West End producing debut with Neil Simon's "The Sunshine Boys" which starred Danny DeVito & Richard Griffiths . Marion also made his Reality TV debut starring on Oxygen's "The Next Big Thing: NY" which debuted in the summer of '12. The show centered around performance coach Trapper Felides and his young, up & coming clients. Marion acted as Felides' producer on every episode and created an event to show case his clients. In 2013 Marion is scheduled to continue his reality show "The Next Big Thing" via syndication of the first season on the Canadian E! Network .
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