Catherine Adler


Catherine Adler is an American Broadway producer who has won 9 Tony Awards and 1 Olivier Award.

Biography

She began producing Broadway plays and musicals in 2013. Her first production credit was on Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, which won the Tony Award for Best Play in 2013. That year, she also began producing A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder and remained on as producer during its first national tour. The original production won the Tony Award for Best Musical in 2014.
Also that year, she was a producer on the revival of The Elephant Man which starred Bradley Cooper and Patricia Clarkson and had productions on both Broadway and the West End. The Elephant Man was one of three Adler-produced revivals to be nominated for a Tony in 2015 alongside This Is Our Youth and Skylight, the latter of which ultimately won the award. Throughout 2016 and 2017, she produced several Off-Broadway plays including, The Flick, Small Mouth Sounds, and Baghdaddy. She returned to Broadway later in 2017, producing Steve Martin's Meteor Shower.
In 2018, she produced the Broadway revival of Angels in America which would go on to win the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play that year. As part of CatWenJam Productions, she produced Network, which starred Bryan Cranston. In addition to the aforementioned The Ferryman, Adler produced the Broadway runs for both Tootsie and Be More Chill in 2019.
In 2019 Adler won the Tony Award for Best Play for producing The Ferryman and the Olivier Award for Best Musical Revival">Laurence Olivier Awards">Olivier Award for Best Musical Revival for producing Marianne Elliott's West End production of [Company (musical)|Company].
In 2020 Adler produced the Tony Award for Best Musical nominee Tina: The Tina Turner Musical as well as Marianne Elliott's Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim's Company.
From 2021 to present, Adler produced the Tony Award-winning Broadway productions of The Lehman Trilogy, Company, and Leopoldstadt. She also co-produced the Broadway premiere of Thoughts of a Colored Man in 2021 and the original musical Swept Away, which opened at the Longacre Theatre in 2024.

Production credits

YearTitle
DatesVenueNotes
2013Vanya and Sonia and Masha and SpikeMarch 14 – August 25, 2013John Golden TheatreTony Award for Best Play
2013After MidnightNovember 3, 2013 – June 29, 2014Brooks Atkinson Theatre
2013A Gentleman's Guide to Love and MurderNovember 17, 2013 – January 17, 2016Walter Kerr Theatre Tony Award for Best Musical
2014The Velocity of AutumnApril 21, 2014 – May 4, 2014Booth Theatre
2014This Is Our YouthSeptember 11, 2014 – January 4, 2015Cort Theatre
2014WiesenthalOctober 24, 2014 – February 1, 2015Acorn TheatreOff-Broadway
2014Side ShowNovember 17, 2014 – January 4, 2015St. James Theatre
2014A Delicate BalanceNovember 20, 2014 – February 22, 2015John Golden Theatre
2014The Elephant ManDecember 7, 2014 – February 21, 2015Booth TheatreBroadway
2014The Elephant ManMay 19 – August 8, 2015Theatre Royal HaymarketWest End
2015Fish in the DarkMarch 5 – August 1, 2015Cort Theatre
2015SkylightApril 2 – June 21, 2015John Golden TheatreTony Award for Best Revival of a Play
2015The FlickMay 18, 2015 – January 10, 2016Barrow Street TheatreOff-Broadway
2015On Your Feet!November 5, 2015 – August 20, 2017Marquis Theatre
2016Bright StarMarch 24 – June 26, 2016Cort Theatre
2016Exit StrategyApril 13 – May 6, 2016Cherry Lane TheatreOff-Broadway
2016The Forgotten WomanMay 31 – June 19, 2019Bay Street Theater Regional
2016Small Mouth SoundsJuly 13 – October 9, 2016Pershing Square Signature CenterOff-Broadway
2016ButlerJuly 27 – August 28, 201659E59 TheatersOff-Broadway
2016The Roads to HomeOctober 5 – November 27, 2016Cherry Lane TheatreOff-Broadway
2017BaghdaddyMay 1 – June 25, 2017St. Luke's TheatreOff-Broadway
20171984June 22 – October 8, 2017Hudson Theatre
2017Meteor ShowerNovember 29, 2017 – January 21, 2018Booth Theatre
2018Angels in AmericaMarch 25 – July 15, 2018Neil Simon TheatreTony Award for Best Revival of a Play
2018The FerrymanOctober 21, 2018 – July 7, 2019Bernard B. Jacobs TheatreTony Award for Best Play
2018NetworkDecember 6, 2018 – June 8, 2019Belasco Theatre
2019Be More ChillMarch 10 – August 11, 2019Lyceum Theatre
2019TootsieApril 23, 2019 – January 5, 2020Marquis Theatre
2019The InheritanceNovember 17, 2019 - March 11, 2020Ethel Barrymore TheaterTony Award for Best Play
2020November 7, 2019 – PresentLunt-Fontanne Theatre
2021Thoughts of a Colored ManOctober 13, 2021 - December 22, 2021Golden TheaterClosed early due to COVID
2021CompanyDecember 9 2021 - July 31, 2022Bernard B. Jacobs TheatreTony Award for Best Revival of A Musical
2021The Lehman TrilogyOctober 14, 2021 - January 2, 2022Nedelander TheaterTony Award for Best Play
2022[Leopoldstadt (play)|Leopoldstadt]October 2, 2022 - July 2, 2023Longacre TheaterTony Award for Best Play
2024[Swept Away (musical)|Swept Away]November 19, 2024 - December 29, 2024Longacre Theater
2025Call Me IzzyJune 12, 2025 - August 24, 2025Studio 54
202513 Going on 30September 21, 2025 - October 12, 2025Manchester Opera House
2025OedipusOctober 30, 2025 - February 8, 2026Studio 54

Nominations and awards

YearAwardCategoryNomineeResultRef.
2013Tony AwardBest PlayVanya and Sonia and Masha and SpikeWon
2014Tony AwardBest MusicalA Gentleman's Guide to Love and MurderWon
2014Tony AwardBest MusicalAfter MidnightNomitated
2015Tony AwardBest Revival of a PlayThis Is Our YouthNomitated
2015Tony AwardBest Revival of a PlayThe Elephant ManNomitated
2015Tony AwardBest Revival of a PlaySkylightWon
2016Tony AwardBest MusicalBright StarNomitated
2018Tony AwardBest Revival of a PlayAngels in AmericaWon
2019Tony AwardBest PlayThe FerrymanWon
2019Tony AwardBest MusicalTootsieNomitated
2019Olivier AwardBest Musical RevivalCompanyWon
2020Tony AwardBest MusicalNomitated
2020Tony AwardBest PlayThe InheritanceWon
2022Tony AwardBest Revival of a MusicalCompanyWon
2022Tony AwardBest PlayThe Lehman TrilogyWon
2023Tony AwardBest PlayLeopoldstadtWon