Biography
Daniel Okrent has been editor-in-chief of a leading publishing house (Harcourt Brace); managing editor of a major magazine (Life); author of both a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in history (Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center) and a national bestseller (Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition); and a columnist for the New York Times. He has also acted in films (Sweet and Lowdown; The Hoax), appeared on many television shows, and been both an on-air commentator and a script consultant on three Ken Burns documents. Old Jews Telling Jokes is his first theatrical effort.
