Sean Cercone has stepped down as head of Broadway Licensing International. It’s unclear why he left the corporate that he acquired in 2019.

Broadway Licensing International has introduced who will lead the corporate on an interim foundation: Ted Chapin will function interim CEO and Dan Markley will probably be interim COO. Chapin beforehand ran The Rodgers and Hammerstein Group for greater than 30 years and co-founded Encores! at New York Metropolis Heart. Markley is a Broadway producer, whose credit embody “Stomp” and “The Vagina Monologues.” He was the manager director of the New York Musical Pageant from 2013 to 2018.

Based in 2017, Broadway Licensing International and its household of imprints, which incorporates Broadway Licensing, Dramatists Play Service, Playscripts, and Stageworks, has turn out to be a pressure in theatrical licensing and distribution. It represents greater than 8,000 works, together with a group of 40 Tony Award-winning and 49 Pulitzer Prize-winning titles. Moreover, as of 2022 Broadway Licensing International at the moment represents eight of the ten most-produced performs in skilled theaters and 9 of the highest 10 most-produced performs in excessive colleges. The exhibits embody “A Bronx Story,” “JaJa’s African Hair Braiding,” “The Cher Present,” “Head Over Heels” “Summer time: The Donna Summer time Musical” and the highschool and secondary faculty version of “Harry Potter and the Cursed Little one.”

Headquartered in New York Metropolis, Broadway Licensing International lately launched a London workplace. In 2020, they launched the streaming platform Broadway on Demand, which affords unique theatrical content material, interactive occasions and unique programming.

Cercone was beforehand president of Playscripts Inc., the place he created the Broadway Licensing imprint. He additionally served as chief enterprise officer and senior vp {of professional} and worldwide licensing for Theatrical Rights Worldwide.