Erv Raible is the Executive Director of Cabaret & Concert Artists International, and is a New York City based cabaret coach, director, publicist, consultant and talent representative. Erv is the Executive/Artistic Director of the Cabaret Conference At Yale University which is being developed in conjunction with the Yale School of Drama and the Yale Repertory Theater and is an international teaching program that offers an intensive look at the art of cabaret performance technique and trains professionals for the live entertainment industry. Erv currently serves on the Back Stage Bistro Award Selection Committee. Prior to this Erv was the Entertainment Director/Public Relations Liaison for the FireBird Café (1999-01), owned and booked the legendary Eighty Eight’s (1988-99), Don’t Tell Mama Piano Bar & Cabaret (1982-89), Brandy’s Piano Bar (1980-85), and The Duplex Cabaret & Piano Bar (1978-84); and through these venues presented over 4000 performers to the public.

Erv co-founded the Manhattan Association of Cabarets & Clubs; and currently serves as the Advisory Board Chairman for the Washington, DC Cabaret Network, and on the Advisory Boards of the Boston Association of Cabaret Artists, Chicago Cabaret Professionals and Cabaret West/Los Angeles, Pacific Northwest Cabaret Association, and the West Michigan Cabaret Association.

Erv is the recipient of the 2004 Back Stage Bistro Award for Outstanding Director. Erv was a 2002, 2003 and 2004 Manhattan Association of Cabarets & Clubs (MAC) Award nominee for Outstanding Director, received a 2000 Back Stage Bistro Award for the legendary Eighty Eight’s, a 1992 MAC and Back Stage Bistro for conceiving, producing and directing the Outstanding Musical Revue Here’s To Our Friends…The AIDS Music Revue, a 1992 MAC Award nomination for Outstanding Special Musical Material for the song I Wish I Might written with Emmy Award winning composer Brian Lasser, a 1991 Back Stage Bistro award for promoting cabaret and founding MAC, and a 1989 Piaf d’Honneur from the French government for promoting, producing and directing cabaret internationally.

Erv was the Associate Producer of the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s Cabaret Symposium for seven years and a master teacher for twelve years; and has taught cabaret classes for Talent Ventures, Inc (TVI), and currently teaches cabaret classes for Dreams Come True (DCT) Enterprises and Biz Kids NYC.

Erv recently co-produced HeartSong: The Heroes Concert in NYC, Detroit and Washington, DC; and conceived, produced, directed and narrated September 11, 2001 … The Musical Response, as benefits for the Twin Towers Fund.

Erv has written the book and lyrics, and is currently developing Wallis & Edward: The Love Story of the Twentieth Century? for the musical stage. Erv is co-lyricist with Pam Tate on Ships of Fools, adapted from the Katherine Anne Porter novel; book and music by Pam Tate. Erv will make his off-Broadway directorial debut, fall of 2008, with Linn Maxwell's one-woman show Lili Marlene at New York City's Abingdon Theater.

Erv is currently developing a Holocaust music documentary, Silent Voices: Words & Music of the Holocaust, Hate, Hope and the Human Spirit for the Simon Wiesenthal Center.

Prior to moving to New York City, Erv co-founded the internationally acclaimed Cincinnati, Ohio School for Creative & Performing Arts, the first public alternative arts school, where he served as the head of the Studio Art and Art History departments; and was the resident set, costume and graphic designer for the schools numerous drama, music theater and dance productions including Babes in Toyland, Cinderella, The Music Man, A Streetcar Named Desire, Carnival, Mame, La Boutique Fantasque, Little Mary Sunshine, and Ahmal and the Night Visitors. Erv's illustrious students include: Rocky Carroll (CBS televisions Chicago Hope / Tony Nominee for The Piano Lesson), Cy Voris (Tales From the Crypt: Demon Knight / Bulletproof Monk), Rosa Curry (Broadway's Chicago and Steel Pier / George C. Wolfe's Harlem Song), and Sarah Jessica Parker (Sex and the City).