Trav S D

Trav S.D. (Travis Stewart) is best known as the author of No Applause, Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous (2005), a favorite of folks ranging from Bette Midler to Marilyn Manson; and the creator of theshow Travalanche, which contains (among much else) the largest online repository of original show biz biographies in the world. In addition to having been a contributor to The New York Times, The Village Voice, American Theatre, and Time Out New York, he is also known as a public speaker and theatre practitioner, most notably as co-producer and director of the first revival of the Marx Brothers first Broadway show I'll Say She Is. His most recent book, released in 2024, is The Marx Brothers Miscellany. He studied film production and criticism at NYU.