Team

Anita Waxman
Founder & CEO, Alexis Productions
Managing Member, Alexis Fund I, II, III

Anita Waxman has spent many years following her passion in the world of live theater. A multiple Tony Award-winning producer, she has garnered seventy-one Tony nominations and sixteen Tony awards and is a member of the Broadway League.

Her current production, Little Dancer, a new musical by Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens directed by Susan Stroman, is based on the story of Edward Degas’s sculpture “Petite Danseuse de 14 Ans.” The show, starring Tiler Peck and Terrence Mann, had a successful run at Seattle 5th Avenue and looks forward to its Broadway debut.

Ms. Waxman was half of the dynamic and one of the first woman’s production company, Waxman-Williams Entertainment. From 2002-2005, Ms. Waxman and Ms. Elizabeth Williams produced on Broadway Noises Off, Topdog/Underdog, The Elephant Man, Flower Drum Song, Bombay Dreams, and general managed Brooklyn.  During this time, Ms. Waxman forged a relationship with Donmar Warehouse/Sam Mendes and Carol Newline to develop a commercial arm to bring productions from London to Broadway. Through Waxman-Williams, Ms. Waxman was the executive producer of an unscripted reality TV series entitled, “The Scholar” (ABC TV, Spring 2005), produced by Carsey-Werner. The series selected 10 high school seniors to compete for a full scholarship to the university of their choice in a competition that tests their skills in academics, leadership, school spirit, and community service.

Alexis Productions past productions include The Real Thing, Cabaret (with Natasha Richardson and Alan Cumming), Jesus Christ Superstar, Becoming Chaplin, Rocky, the revival of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, The Music Man, A Moon for the Misbegotten, The Wild Party, The Waverly Gallery, Electra, A Night in November, A Little Night Music, Enron, American Idiot, Love Never Dies, The Young Man From Atlanta, Present Laughter, 1776, Mrs. Klein (starring Uta Hagen), Wild Honey (with Sir Ian McKellen), The Vertical Hour, Gypsy, the West End productions of Ragtime, Dr. Zhivago, The Elephant Man, Escape to Margaritaville (music by Jimmy Buffett).

Ms. Waxman is the founder and managing member of three theatrical investment funds, Alexis Fund I, Alexis Fund II, and Alexis Fund III. Some of the fund’s investments include Hadestown, Tina: The Musical, Slave Play, Lifespan of a Fact, Come From Away (Toronto, National Tour, UK), Kinky Boots (NYC, London & Tour), Escape to Margaritaville, Hello Dolly, The Front Page, Glass Menagerie, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Jersey Boys (AUS), Book of Mormon (AUS), Verso Truth in Deception, Joan of Arc, and many more.

She has served on the board of the prestigious Donmar Warehouse in London, 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle, The Magic Theatre in San Francisco, and The Roundabout Theatre Company New York City. Other boards include Human Rights watch, SOS International (a worldwide medical service company offering international standards of medical care where it was otherwise not available), and American Biodyne.

For the past 35 years, Ms. Waxman’s has also worked on her other passion - healthcare technology and the development of new modalities.  She is currently the co-founder and director of Ceras Health, a remote patient monitoring platform.  In 1975, she founded and served as CEO and Chairman of Howe-Lewis International, a management consulting and executive search firm serving the biotechnology, medical electronics, and healthcare communities.  In 1977, she was the co-founder of Diasonics Inc., the company that introduced both diagnostic ultrasound and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) to market, and in 1984 along with Dr. Nicholas Cummings founded American Biodyne Inc.

Finally, she has also worked with orphanages around the world. Through her foundation NOAH’S ARK, she established a home for orphaned and abused children in Russia: the Passin-Waxman Center for Children, which is known today as Anita’s Kids, which has helped to educate and care for several hundred children in the past eighteen years. 

Patricia R Klausner
Director of Investor Relations for Alexis Funds
Producer, Alexis Productions

Ms. Klausner has produced, written and assistant directed theater since 1990. While she has invested in many Broadway shows, she is credited as a Co-Producer on The Band's Visit (Tony, Best Musical), Pippin (Tony, Best Revival), Stick Fly, The Trip to Bountiful, and The Scottsboro Boys; National Tours: The Band's Visit, Pippin; and in London:  The Scottsboro Boys.  She is the Co-Executive Producer of the film Wakefield starring Bryan Cranston and Jennifer Garner.  She is currently a co-producer on the new Ahrens & Flaherty musical, Little Dancer, directed by Susan Stroman.

Since 1995, she is the Managing Directors of Shotgun Productions/Global Arts Initiative, a nonprofit theatrical production and arts education company.  Past positions include Director of Marketing and Special Events for Steps on Broadway, General Manager of The Donald Byrd Dance Foundation, conceiver of the multimedia piece The Tides of Intolerance (The Asia Society, NYC, 1996), editor of a weekly financial trade publication, and consultant for various cable television companies and arts businesses.

Ms. Klausner has a Ph.D. in sociology and has taught women's studies, race relations, and criminology at the University of Delaware and Montclair State College. She has presented and published academic articles on women's roles in society, and has written plays, screenplays and short stories with similar themes. She served as a Co-Director of Theater Resources Unlimited's Producers Development Mentorship Program for three years.

Past board membership includes Media Audit International, University of Delaware's President's Commission on the Status of Women, and co-Chair of the Delaware Chapter of Sociologists for Women in Society. She currently sits on the Marymount Manhattan College Dance Advisory Board, Steps Beyond Foundation Board of Directors, and is a proud graduate of CTI.