His daughter, Jilian Cahan Gersten, is the director of development for grants and annual giving at the Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in New York. She married Brian Scott Shuman on 26 August 2007.
He has been the executive producer of Lincoln Center Theater, and all of its productions, since 1985. He was also the associate producer of the New York Shakespeare Festival and the executive vice president of Zoetrope Studios in Los Angeles.