Albert M. Tapper is Chairman of ACT II Companies Inc, a private investment company that invests in matured companies and startup enterprises. ACT II has acquired has acquired business units from major Fortune 500 companies, including Mobile Oil Corporation, Beatrice Foods, Allegheny Corporation and Union Carbide Corporation. Its acquisitions have been in the areas of distribution, manufacturing of paper and plastic disposable products, retail hardware and paint products and industrial automotive products.
Mr. Tapper has made venture capital investments in financial institutions, medical and sports products, as well as investments in the music industry.
Al Tapper is a writer, composer and lyricist having written three off-Broadway musicals. His show “Sessions" is opening June 1, 2007 at the Peter Sharpe Theater at Playwrights Horizon. He wrote his first musical while still in college. Since then he has written special material for regional productions and has produced two albums of his own songs. He composed the ballet “The Seduction of Bathsheba” whose premiere performance at Mechanics Hall was presented by the Central Massachusetts Symphony Orchestra. His off-Broadway show, “Imperfect Chemistry” for which he composed the music and created the story, opened at the Minetta Lane Theater in New York in April of 2000. “From Where I Stand”, a musical revue, opened at the Laurie Beechman Theatre in March of 2003. Al has written five books on humor that were published by Andrews McMeel and Company and MJF Publishing. The books are titled, “A Guy Goes Into a Bar; A Minister, A Priest, And a Rabbi; A Guy Goes Into a Doctor’s Office; A Guy Goes Into A Gym; and Flunked. His stage play “Bettinger’s Luggage” has been adapted as a film to be shot in New York in 2007. He has just completed a new non-musical play titled, “Conversations with Max.” Al produced the award winning film “Broadway: The Golden Age.” He is a member of the Dramatists’ Guild of America and a member of ASCAP (American Society of Composers and Publishers).