question: An American producer and director on Broadway was the father of an American Screenwriter and film director who was born where?
answer: New York
context: Title: Joe Tripician
  Passage: Joseph Tripician (born November 14, 1953; Atlantic City, New Jersey), also known as Joe Tripician and Joe Trip, is an American producer, writer, screenwriter, film director, songwriter, playwright and performer.  He is best known for the documentaries Borders and Metaphoria and his memoir Balkanized at Sunrise, based on Tripician's journey to the Balkans in 1997.
  Title: Mark Jones (filmmaker)
  Passage: Mark Jones (born January 17, 1953 in Los Angeles) is an American screenwriter, film director, television director, film producer, and television producer.  He is notable for his work on the "Leprechaun" horror franchise and numerous television series such as "The A-Team" and "The Highwayman".  Jones also wrote and directed the 2007 film "Triloquist".
  Title: David Fishelson
  Passage: David J. "Dave" Fishelson (born July 24, 1956) is an American producer, playwright, and director for film, theatre, television and radio, based in Manhattan since 1982.  He is best known for being the lead producer of "Golda's Balcony", the longest-running one-woman show in Broadway history (2003–05); and for being the founder/producer of Manhattan Ensemble Theatre ("MET"), an award-winning Off-Broadway theatre company located in SoHo, New York City.  As a filmmaker, his work has been broadcast on PBS, exhibited theatrically, and selected for 12 international film festivals (winning at 3).  As a theatre producer and playwright (both on Broadway and off), his work has garnered 31 nominations (winning 11) from the Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Obie, Drama League, Lortel, Blackburn Prize and Touring Broadway awards organizations, while landing on Time Out NY's year-end "Best in Theatre" list on 4 different occasions.
  Title: Scott Spiegel
  Passage: Scott Spiegel (born December 24, 1957) is an American screenwriter, film director, producer and actor.  He is best known for co-writing the screenplay for the movie "Evil Dead II" with longtime friend, film director Sam Raimi, with whom he attended Wylie E. Groves High School in Birmingham, Michigan.  Spiegel played the role of Scotty in Raimi's "Within the Woods", which served as a precursor to "The Evil Dead".
  Title: George Lederer
  Passage: George Lederer (c. 1862, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania − October 8, 1938) was an American producer and director on Broadway from 1894 to 1931.  He was the husband of Reine Davies from 1907 until their divorce in 1912.  With Davies, he was the father of Charles Lederer and Pepi Lederer.
  Title: Nathan Ruegger
  Passage: Nathan Alexander-Ruegger (born January 19, 1984) is an American screenwriter, voice actor and film director, the son of writer/producer/director Tom Ruegger and voice actress Adrienne Alexander.  He was the voice of certain characters in his father's cartoon shows.  The first was in "Tiny Toon Adventures" when he played the baby version of Plucky Duck, famous for his catchphrase "Water go down the hooooooooole!" .  The second was in "Animaniacs", in a far more prominent role as Skippy Squirrel, the nephew of Slappy Squirrel.  Around the end of that show's run, he landed the role of Froggo in "Histeria! ".  He is also well known for being the inspiration of "Yakko Warner."
  Title: Charles Lederer
  Passage: Charles Lederer (December 31, 1906 – March 5, 1976) was an American screenwriter and film director.  He was born into a prominent theatrical family in New York, and after his parents divorced, was raised in California by his aunt, Marion Davies, mistress to newspaper publisher William Randolf Hearst.  A child prodigy, he entered college at age 13, but dropped out after a few years to work as a journalist with Hearst's newspapers.
  Title: Harlan Thompson
  Passage: Harlan Thompson (24 September 1890 – 29 October 1966) was an American theatre director, screenwriter, lyricist, film director, and film and television producer.  He wrote the Broadway hit "Little Jessie James" (1923–24), and several other Broadway musicals.  He moved to Hollywood, where he was in turn a writer, director and producer.
  Title: Richard Jefferies (screenwriter)
  Passage: Richard L. Jefferies (born March 1956) is an American screenwriter, film producer, film director and editor.  He wrote and executive produced "Cold Creek Manor".  He was a screenwriter on Tron Legacy for Disney Studios and directed the 2008 Syfy Original film "Living Hell".  Jefferies is partners with writer/director/producer Ethan Wiley in transmedia production company Wiseacre Films.
  Title: James Steven Sadwith
  Passage: James Steven Sadwith (born October 20, 1952) is an American producer, screenwriter, and Emmy Award-winning film director.  He is best known for directing the television movie "In Broad Daylight" (1991), mini-series "Sinatra" (1992) and "Elvis" (2005), as well as the feature film "Coming Through the Rye" (2015).
citations: George Lederer Charles Lederer