Harriet Leve

Harriet Newman Leve is a four-time Tony Award–winning Broadway producer.

Career

Ms. Leve is a four-time Tony Award-winning producer. Currently, Ms. Leve will be co-producing the Broadway musical Anastasia, which opens on April 24, 2017.

Ms. Leve also co-produced the world premiere of An American in Paris, based on the Oscar-winning film of the same name. An American in Paris debuted at the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris on December 10, 2014, before transferring to Broadway and is currently on tour in the United States.

Ms. Leve also co-produced the world premiere musical Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, which is currently playing an open-ended run on Broadway and in London's West End as well as a smash hit United States tour. She joined forces with Raise the Roof as a co-producer of the Broadway premiere of Hedwig and the Angry Inch at the Belasco Theatre. Hedwig opened on April 22, 2014, and originally starred Neil Patrick Harris. Hedwig is currently on tour in the United States.

She also is co-producing the award winning New York and and National Tour productions of STOMP, created and directed by Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas, and the critically acclaimed large format motion picture entitled PULSE: a Stomp Odyssey, which garnered the Giant Screen Theater Association's Film Achievement Award. Leve currently has a feature film in development with Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner, and Jane Anderson is the writer and director of this project.

Recent Broadway productions include Of Mice and Men starring James Franco and Chris O'Dowd, Ann written and performed by Emmy Award-winning actress Holland Taylor, the new Gershwin musical Nice Work If You Can Get It starring Matthew Broderick and Kelli O'Hara, the smash-hit comedy One Man Two Guvnors starring James Corden, the Tony Award winning production of War Horse at Lincoln Center, the Tony Award winning productions of Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps, and the Tony Award winning production of Alan Ayckbourn's The Norman Conquests.

With the Raise the Roof partnerships, Leve co-produced The Mountaintop starring Samuel L. Jackson as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Burn the Floor on Broadway and the National Tour, Tracy Letts's Superior Donuts at the Music Box Theater on Broadway, Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music starring Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury, La Cage Aux Folles three-time Tony Award winning production starring Kelsey Grammer and Douglas Hodges.

Other productions include: the Tony nominated Broadway production of Martin McDonagh's The Lieutenant of Inishmore; the Broadway and national tour productions of Eve Ensler's The Good Body directed by Peter Askin; August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, directed by Marion McClinton and starring Whoopi Goldberg and Charles Dutton; the Tony nominated production of Arthur Miller's The Crucible, directed by Richard Eyre and starring Liam Neeson and Laura Linney; Hedda Gabler, directed by Nicholas Martin and starring Kate Burton; the Tony nominated production of The Diary of Anne Frank, directed by James Lapine and starring Natalie Portman and Linda Lavin; Twilight: Los Angeles 1992, written and performed by Anna Deavere Smith and directed by George C. Wolfe; and the Olivier Award winning production of Kat and the Kings, book, lyrics and direction by David Kramer and music and arrangements by Taliep Petersen.

Off-Broadway productions include: Beebo Brinker Chronicles, based on the 1950s ground-breaking pulp novels by Ann Bannon, adapted and written by Kate Moira Ryan and Linda S. Chapman and directed by Leigh Silverman; Sherry Glaser's Family Secrets, directed by Bob Balaban; the international hit musical Shockheaded Peter; Eve Ensler's Necessary Targets, directed by Michael Wilson and starring Shirley Knight and Diane Venora; Alan Ayckbourn's Communicating Doors, directed by Christopher Ashley and starring Mary-Louise Parker.

Her Los Angeles productions include Wendy Wasserstein's Isn't it Romantic directed by Gerald Gutierez; Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart, directed by Arvin Brown and starring Richard Dreyfuss, Kathy Bates, and Bruce Davison; Sam Shepard's The Curse of the Starving Class directed by Gillian Eaton and Starring Carrie Snodgress and Brad Whitford.

Ms. Leve was the Vice President of Development for Tony Bill Film Productions and taught film workshops at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles. She also wrote a chapter for the Commercial Theater Institute's Guide to Producing Plays and Musicals. She is a member of The Broadway League and was on the Board of Directors of New York Stage and Film for four years.

Detailed information about Leve's productions can be found at http://leveproductions.com/

Theater

Broadway

Anastasia [Original, Musical]

Cast featuring: Christy Altomare, Derek Klena, Ramin Karimloo, Mary Beth Peil and John Bolton

March 23, 2017 -

An American in Paris [Original, Musical]

Cast featuring: Robert Fairchild, Jill Paice, Leanne Cope, Veanne Cox, Brandon Uranowitz and Max von Essen

March 13, 2015 - October 9, 2016

Hedwig and the Angry Inch [Original, Musical] ^[1]

Cast featuring: Neil Patrick Harris

March 29, 2014 - September 13, 2015

Of Mice and Men [Revival, Play] ^[2]

Cast featuring: James Franco, Chris O'Dowd, Leighton Meester

March 19, 2014 - July 27, 2014

Beautiful: The Carole King Musical [Original, Musical]

Cast featuring: Jessie Mueller, Jake Epstein, Anika Larsen, and Jarrod Spector

November 21, 2013 -

Ann [Original, Play] ^[3]

Written and Performed by Holland Taylor

February 18, 2013 - June 30, 2013

Nice Work If You Can Get It [Original, Musical] ^[4]

Cast featuring: Matthew Broderick, Kelli O'Hara (through March 24), Jessie Mueller (beginning March 29), Judy Kaye, Michael McGrath, Estelle Parsons (through December 16), and Blythe Danner (beginning December 18)

April 24, 2012 - June 15, 2013

Dead Accounts [Original, Play] ^[5]

Cast featuring: Katie Holmes, Norbert Leo Butz, Judy Greer, Jayne Houdyshell, and Josh Hamilton

November 29, 2012 - January 6, 2013

One Man, Two Guvnors [Original, Play] ^[6]

Cast featuring: James Corden

April 18, 2012 - September 2, 2012

The Mountaintop [Original, Play] ^[7]

Cast featuring: Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett

October 13, 2011 - January 22, 2012

War Horse [Original, Play] ^[8]

April 14, 2011 - January 6, 2013

Toronto Production February 2012 - January 2013

La Cage Aux Folles [Revival, Musical] ^[9]

Cast featuring: Kelsey Grammer, Douglas Hodge, and A.J. Shively

April 6, 2010 - May 1, 2011

A Little Night Music [Revival, Musical] ^[10]

Cast featuring: Catherine Zeta-Jones (through June 20th), Angela Lansbury (through June 20th), Bernadette Peters (beginning July 13th), Elaine Stritch (beginning July 13th), Alexander Hanson, Erin Davie, Hunter Ryan Herdlicka, Leigh Ann Larkin, Aaron Lazar, and Ramona Mallory

November 24, 2009 – January 9, 2011

Superior Donuts [Original, Play] ^[11]

Cast featuring: Michael McKean, Jon Michael Hill, Yasen Peyankov, James Vincent Meredith, Kate Buddeke, Robert Maffia, Jane Alderman, Cliff Chamberlain, and Michael Garvey

September 16, 2009 - January 3, 2010

Burn the Floor [Dance] ^[12]

Cast Featuring: Maksim Chmerkovskiy, Karina Smirnoff, Henry Bayalikov, Sharna Burgess, Kevin Clifton, Sasha Farber, Jeremy Garner, Anya Garnis, Gordana Grandosek, Patrick Helm, Sarah Hives, Melanie Hooper, Peta Murgatroyd, Giselle Peacock, Sarah Soriano, Damon Sugden, Rebecca Sugden, Damian Whitewood, Trent Widdon, and Robin Windsor

July 25, 2009 – January 10, 2010

The Norman Conquests [Revival, Play, Comedy] ^[13][14][15]

Featuring the Original London Cast: Amelia Bullmore, Jessica Hynes, Stephen Mangan, Ben Miles, Paul Ritter, and Amanda Root

April 23, 2009 – July 26, 2009

The 39 Steps [Original, Play, Comedy] ^[16]

Original Cast featuring Charles Edwards, Jennifer Ferrin, Cliff Saunders, and Arnie Burton

January 15, 2008 – January 10, 2010

Coram Boy [Original, Play, Drama, Play with music] ^[17]

Cast featuring: Jolly Abraham, Uzo Aduba, Jacqueline Antaramian, Bill Camp, Dashiell Eaves, Xanthe Elbrick, Tom Riis Farrell, Brad Fleischer, Karron Graves, Laura Heisler, Angela Lin, David Macdonald, Quentin Maré, Jan Maxwell, Kathleen McNenny, Cristin Milioti, Charlotte Parry, Christina Rouner, Ivy Vahanian, and Wayne Wilcox. With a choir featuring Phillip Anderson, John Arbo, Sean Attebury, Renee Brna, Charlotte Cohn, Sean Cullen, Katie Geissinger, Zachary James, Tinashe Kajese, BJ Karpen, Katherine Keyes, Evangelia Kingsley, Eric Morris, Daniel Neer, Nina Negri, Mark Rehnstrom, Martin Sola, Samantha Soule, Alison Weller, and Greg Wright

May 2, 2007 – May 27, 2007

The Lieutenant of Inishmore [Original, Play, Comedy, Satire] ^[18]

Cast featuring: Jeff Binder, Andrew Connolly, Dashiell Eaves, Peter Gerety, Domhnall Gleeson, Brian d'Arcy James, Alison Pill, and David Wilmot

May 3, 2006–September 3, 2006

The Good Body [Original, Play, Solo] ^[19]

Written by and Starring Eve Ensler

November 15, 2004–December 19, 2004

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom [Revival, Play, Drama] ^[20]

Cast Featuring: Charles S. Dutton, Whoopi Goldberg, Thomas Jefferson Byrd, Tony Cucci, Carl Gordon, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Anthony Mackie, Heather Alicia Simms, Jack Davidson, and Louis Zorich

February 6, 2003–April 6, 2003

The Crucible [Revival, Play, Drama] ^[21]

Cast Featuring: Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, John Benjamin Hickey, Christopher Evan Welch, Angela Bettis, and Tom Aldredge

March 7, 2002–June 9, 2002

Hedda Gabler [Revival, Play, Drama] ^[22]

Cast Featuring: Kate Burton, Michael Emerson, Angela Thornton, David Lansbury, Jennifer VanDyck, Harris Yulin, and Maria Cellario

October 4, 2001–January 13, 2002

Kat and the Kings [Original, Musical, Comedy] ^[23]

Cast Featuring: Jody J. Abrahams, Luqmaan Adams, Juniad Booysen, Terry Hector, Alistair Izobell, and Kim Louis

August 19, 1999–January 2, 2000

The Diary of Anne Frank [Revival, Play, Drama] ^[24]

Cast Featuring: Natalie Portman, George Hearn, Linda Lavin, Harris Yulin, Austin Pendleton, Lori Wilner, Jonathan Kaplan, Missy Yager, Philip Goodwin, and Jessica Walling

December 4, 1997–June 14, 1998

Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 [Original, Play, Solo] ^[25]

Written and Performed by Anna Deavere Smith

April 17, 1994–June 19, 1994

Off-Broadway

The 39 Steps [Original, Play, Comedy] ^[26]

Cast featuring: John Behlmann, Kate MacCluggage, Jamie Jackson, Cameron Folmar

March 25, 2010 - January 16, 2011

The Beebo Brinker Chronicles [Original, Play, Drama]^[27]

Original Cast Featuring: Carolyn Baeumler, Jenn Colella, Bill Dawes, Autumn Dornfeld, David Greenspan, and Marin Ireland

February 19, 2008 – April 29, 2008

Family Secrets [Original, Play, Solo]^[28]

Written by and Starring Sherry Glaser

March 8, 2006 – April 9, 2006

Shockheaded Peter [Original, Musical, Comedy]^[29]

Cast Featuring: Julian Bleach, Anthony Cairns, Luther Creek, Graeme Gilmour, Tamzin Griffin, Paul Kandel, Rebekah Wild, Fred Berman, Ritt Henn, Kevin Townley, and Josie Whittlesey

February 22, 2005 – May 29, 2005

Necessary Targets [Original, Play, Drama]^[30]

Cast Featuring: Shirley Knight, Diane Venora, Alyssa Bresnahan, Mirjana Jokovic, Sally Parrish, Maria Thayer and Catherine Kellner

February 28, 2002 – April 21, 2002

Communicating Doors [Original, Play, Drama]^[31]

Cast Featuring: Mary-Louise Parker, David McCallum, Patricia Hodges, Tom Beckett, Candy Buckley, and Gerrit Graham

August 20, 1998 – January 3, 1999

Bunny Bunny [Original, Play, Comedy] ^[32]

Cast Featuring: Paula Cale, Bruno Kirby, and Alan Tudyk

March 23, 1997 – May 25, 1997

STOMP [Original, Instrumental] ^[33]

February 27, 1994–Present

Edith Stein [Original, Play] ^[34]

Cast Featuring: Laura Esterman, Irene Dailey, Jim Abele, Stacie Chaiken, Katie Finneran, Sarah Lloyd, Tim Lord, Naomi Riseman, Susan Riskin, Norman Rose, and Terry Serpico

January 8, 1994 – January 30, 1994

National Tours

War Horse [Original, Play] ^[8]

June 2012 - Aug 2014

La Cage Aux Folles [Revival, Musical] ^[9]

Cast featuring: George Hamilton

October 2011 - November 2012

Burn the Floor [Dance] ^[12]

Cast Featuring: Robbie Kmentoni, Ashleigh Di Lello, Ryan Di Lello, Karen Hauer, and Janetter Manrara

September 2010 - June 2011

The 39 Steps [Original, Play, Comedy] ^[26]

Cast featuring: Claire Brownell, Eric Hissom, Scott Parkinson, Ted Deasy, Sheffield Chastain, and Allison Jean White

August 2009 - June 2010

Los Angeles

Why We Have a Body [Original, Play]

Cast Featuring: Nellie Cravens, Shareen Mitchell, K.K. Dodds, and Amy Resnick

1995

Telegrams from Heaven [Original, Play]

Cast Featuring: Renee Taylor, Valerie Landsburg, Peter Gregory, Rhonda Aldrich, Andrew Mark Berman, Edith Fields, Aaron Heyman, and Michael Kostoff

1992

Family Secrets [Original, Play, Solo]

Written by and Starring Sherry Glaser

1990–1991

Excess Baggage [Original, Play]

Cast Featuring: Larry Miller, Kathleen Clark, Jack Axelrod, Will Carney, Estelle Harris, Mitzi McCall, Claire O' Berry, Sarah Powers, George Solomon, and Paul Sylvan

1988

The Curse of the Starving Class [Original, Play]

Cast Featuring: Carrie Snodgress, Andrew Robinson, Thomas Callaway, Suzanne Calvert, Wayne Grace, Larry Hankin, Michael Hennessy, Brad Whitford, and Ping Wu

July 20, 1985 – February 16, 1986

The Normal Heart [Original, Play, Drama]

Cast Featuring: Richard Dreyfuss, Bruce Davison, Kathy Bates, Christopher Bradley, Vincent Caristi, William De Acutis, Kenneth Kimmins, Ben Murphy, and David Spielberg

April 21, 1985 – July 7, 1985

Isn't It Romantic [Original, Play]

Cast Featuring: Christine Estabrook, Joan Copeland, Anne Lange, Jo de Winter, Jerry Lanning, Michael Lembeck, Barney Martin, and Ian Patrick Williams

June 20, 1984 – September 1, 1985

Films

PULSE: a STOMP Odyssey^[35]

Created and Directed by Steve McNicholas and Luke Cresswell

Cast Featuring: STOMP, Les Percussions de Guinée, Kodo, Eva Yerbabuena, Panchavadyam, and Timbala

Books

The Commercial Theater Institute: Guide to Producing Plays and Musicals Copyright 2006 ^[36]

Contributed Chapter, "You Never Forget Your First Time"

Awards

An American in Paris

2015 Tony Award for Best Choreography

Christopher Wheeldon

2015 Tony Award for Best Orchestrations

Don Sebesky, Christopher Austin and Bill Elliot

2015 Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Musical

Bob Crowley and 59 Productions

2015 Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of a Musical

Natasha Katz

2014 Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Musical

2014 Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Director of a Musical

Christopher Wheeldon

2014 Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Choreographer of a Musical

Christopher Wheeldon

2014 Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Actor in a Musical

Robert Fairchild

Beautiful

2014 Tony Award Best Leading Actress in a Musical

Jessie Mueller

2014 Tony Award for Best Sound Design of a Musical

Brian Ronan

2014 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical

Jessie Mueller

2014 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical

Anika Larsen

2014 Drama Desk Award for Sound Design in a Musical

Brian Ronan

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

2014 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical

2014 Tony Award Best Leading Actor in a Musical

Neil Patrick Harris

2014 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical

Lena Hall

2014 Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of a Play

Kevin Adams

2014 Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Revival of a Musical

2014 Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Lighting Design

Kevin Adams

2014 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical

Neil Patrick Harris

2014 Drama League Award for Outstanding Outstanding Revival of a Musical

Ann

2012 Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Solo Performance

Holland Taylor

Nice Work if You Can Get It

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2012 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical

Michael McGrath

2012 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical

Judy Kaye

2012 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical

Michael McGrath

2012 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical

Judy Kaye

2012 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical

Joe DiPietro

2012 Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical

Michael McGrath

2012 Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical

Judy Kaye

One Man, Two Guvnors

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2012 Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Play

James Corden

2012 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play

James Corden

2012 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play

Tom Edden

2012 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music in a Play

Grant Olding

2012 Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Broadway Play

2012 Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Director of a Play

Nicholas Hytner

2012 Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play

James Corden

War Horse

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2011 Tony Award for Best Play 2011 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play

Marianne Elliot and Tom Morris

2011 Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Play

Rae Smith

2011 Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of a Play

Paule Constable

2011 Tony Award for Best Sound Design of a Play

Christopher Shutt

2011 Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Broadway Play

2011 Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Director of a Play

Marianne Elliot and Tom Morris

2011 Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Lighting Design

Paule Constable

2011 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play

La Cage Aux Folles

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2010 Tony Award Best Revival of a Musical

2010 Tony Award Best Leading Actor in a Musical

Douglas Hodge

2010 Tony Award Best Direction of a Musical

Terry Johnson

A Little Night Music

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2010 Tony Award Best Leading Actress in a Musical

Catherine Zeta-Jones

The Norman Conquests

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2009 Tony Award Best Revival of a Play

2009 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival of a Play

2009 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play

Matthew Warchus

2009 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Ensemble Performance

Amelia Bullmore, Jessica Hynes, Stephen Mangan, Ben Miles, Paul Ritter, Amanda Root

2009 Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Revival of a Play

2009 Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Director of a Play

Matthew Warchus

2009 Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Ensemble Performance

Amelia Bullmore, Jessica Hynes, Stephen Mangan, Ben Miles, Paul Ritter, Amanda Root

2009 Special Theatre World Award to the Entire Cast of The Norman Conquests

Amelia Bullmore, Jessica Hynes, Stephen Mangan, Ben Miles, Paul Ritter, Amanda Root

The 39 Steps

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2008 Tony Award Best Sound Design

Mic Pool

2008 Tony Award Best Lighting Design

Kevin Adams

2008 Drama Desk Award Unique Theatrical Experience

The 39 Steps

2008 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design

Kevin Adams

Coram Boy

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2006 Theatre World Award

Xanthe Elbrick

The Lieutenant of Inishmore

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2006 Theatre World Award

David Wilmot

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

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2003 Theatre World Award

Thomas Jefferson Byrd

The Crucible

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Outstanding Revival of a Musical or Revue

Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992

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1994 Drama Desk Outstanding Solo Performance

Anna Deavere Smith

1994 Theatre World Award

Anna Deavere Smith

Stomp

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1994 Drama Desk Award Unique Theater Experience

Harriet Newman Leve

References