Nathan Lane Documentary From Filmmaker Matthew Miele To Feature Interviews With Matthew Broderick, Tony Kushner, Laurie Metcalf, Mel Brooks, Others

EXCLUSIVE: Filmmaker Matthew Miele is currently directing a new feature documentary on the life, career, and theatrical legacy of three-time Emmy and three-time Tony Award-winning actor Nathan Lane. The film will trace Lane’s remarkable body of work across stage and screen while following him through a major artistic moment: his long-awaited (and Tony-nominated) portrayal of Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman, a current Broadway role he has contemplated for more than thirty years.

The documentary will feature conversations and appearances from a wide-ranging group of collaborators, friends, and contemporaries, including Matthew Broderick, Tony Kushner, Jean Smart, Laurie Metcalf, George C. Wolfe, Ann Roth, Mel Brooks and Mike Birbiglia, among others.

“There are very few performers left who carry within them not only extraordinary talent, but the living memory of the theater itself,” said Miele. “What fascinates me is not simply documenting a remarkable career, but capturing a man who has spent decades absorbing the language, history, rhythms, heartbreak, humor, and mythology of Broadway and American theater. Nathan doesn’t just perform within that tradition, he understands it deeply and embodies a necessary bridge between generations of playwrights, actors, directors, and audiences.”

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