- Simkin was a member of the League of American Theatres and Producers.
- As of 2004, he was working throughout China, living in Shanghai developing a national theatre network and producing films and musicals for import and export.
- Simkin managed marketing and produced numerous shows for Microsoft. Other industrials include the SkyDome Opening Ceremonies; Volkswagen EuroVan Launch; Toronto Arts Awards and The Dinosaur World Tour.
- Simkin controlled worldwide rights to various film and stage properties, including the motion picture USD $14m budgeted film "The Sacrifice of Yang GuiFei" (based on the story of Yang GuiFei) along with "Tea 4 Two" and "The Great Big Chinese Show".
- Off-Broadway, he was Executive Producer of Savion Glover's NYC and national tours of Improvography I & II, Classical Savion, Matt & Ben, Savion at the Rialto and for Celebrity's Constellation in Europe, Batir, A Hot Minute (both directed/choreographed by Wayne Cilento), An American Canteen in Paris and Spotlight Broadway.
- He produced, managed and/or marketed over 150 productions.
- On the West End/London his producing credits include, The Female of the Species (starring Dame Eileen Atkins) I Am My Own Wife (starring Jefferson Mays); Death of a Salesman (starring Brian Dennehy); and other production credits include Blood Brothers (starring Stephanie Lawrence), Damn Yankees (starring Jerry Lewis), RENT, Sideman and Václav Havel's Temptation (starring Countess Rula Lenska and Sylvester McCoy).
- Simkin co-produced shows that have collectively garnered 3 Tony Awards (and 5 nominations), 7 Drama Desk Awards, 4 Outer Critics Circle Awards, 2 Lucille Lortel Awards, 3 Drama League Awards, 1 Theatre World Award, 1 Olivier Award, 3 OBIE Awards and 1 Pulitzer Prize.
- On Broadway, his producing credits include the Tony Award winning Long Day's Journey into Night (starring Vanessa Redgrave, Brian Dennehy and Philip Seymour Hoffman); I Am My Own Wife (starring Jefferson Mays); Death of a Salesman (starring Brian Dennehy) plus The Crucible (starring Liam Neeson and Laura Linney); Marc Salem's Mind Games; The Price; and Victor/Victoria (starring Dame Julie Andrews).
- He was an English theatrical producer and impresario most notable for his work on Broadway and off-Broadway and in London's West End.
- Schooled in Washington DC and Brisbane, Australia.
- On Broadway, his producing credits include various Tony Award winning shows.
- Shows that Simkin was involved in marketing have garnered an additional 243 Tony nominations and 96 wins.
- Simkin produced and directed his first show at the age of 18, "The Long and the Short and the Tall" which received positive reviews.
- Toby served as President and chief operating officer of Theatre.com Inc., a company he founded as Buy Broadway in 1995, which he started as a way to reach more international ticket buyers for his production of Victor/Victoria. In March 1997, Toby (in partnership with Microsoft) produced the first live Broadcast over the net for the Broadway opening night of Annie. Then followed doing similar video broadcasts for Les Misérables, Jerry Lewis's Damn Yankees (from London) and others.
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