Harriet Leve


Harriet Newman Leve is an American theater and movie producer. She is best known for her work with Broadway shows, including Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, An American in Paris '', and Life of Pi. She was also the executive producer of the films A Call to Spy and Radium Girls''. Plays that she co-produced on Broadway have received Drama Desk Awards, Drama League Awards, Olivier Awards, Outer Critics Circle Awards, and four Tony Awards.

Early life

Leve is a graduate of the Indiana University Bloomington.

Career

Leve began producing plays in Los Angeles in from 1984 to 1995. She began working off-broadway in New York in 1994, with a production of the original play, Edith Stein. Her Broadway premier was Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 in April 1994. She co-produced the national tour and co-produced the original New York production of STOMP, which ran for 29 years, from February 27, 1994 to January 8, 2023.
Leve's other Broadway productions include Of Mice and Men starring James Franco and Chris O'Dowd, Ann based on the life of former Texas Governor, Ann Richards, written and performed by Holland Taylor, the George Gershwin musical Nice Work If You Can Get It starring Matthew Broderick and Kelli O'Hara, the 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 Raise the Roof, Leve co-produced The Mountaintop starring Samuel L. Jackson, 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, and the three-time Tony Award-winning production of La Cage Aux Folles.
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, August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom; the Tony-nominated production of Arthur Miller's The Crucible, ''Hedda Gabler, the Tony-nominated production of The Diary of Anne Frank, Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992, and the Olivier Award-winning production of Kat and the Kings.
She co-produced the world premiere musical Beautiful: The Carole King Musical which opened on January 12, 2014.'' She co-produced the Broadway premiere of Hedwig and the Angry Inch at the Belasco Theatre with Raise the Roof; Hedwig opened on April 22, 2014. Leve 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 Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris on December 10, 2014, before transferring to Broadway.
Leve most recently co-produced the musical Redwood, which ran on Broadway from February 13, 2025 to May 18, 2025 and the play Life of Pi, which ran on Broadway from March 30, 2023 to July 23, 2023. Life of Pi began its US tour in the fall of 2024. She also co-produced the Broadway musical Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations which opened on Broadway on March 21, 2019, and closed in London's West End on September 17, 2023.
She is a member of The Broadway League and was on the board of directors of New York Stage and Film for four years.

Awards

Filmography

Pulse: a STOMP Odyssey, producerA Call to Spy '', executive producterRadium Girls, executive producerA Call to Spy'', executive producer

Selected productions

Broadway

Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992, April 17, 1994 – June 19, 1994 The Diary of Anne Frank, December 4, 1997 – June 14, 1998Kat and the Kings, August 19, 1999 – January 2, 2000Hedda Gabler, October 4, 2001 – January 13, 2002The Crucible, March 7, 2002 – June 9, 2002Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, February 6, 2003 – April 6, 2003The Good Body, November 15, 2004 – December 19, 2004 The Lieutenant of Inishmore, May 3, 2006 – September 3, 2006 Coram Boy, May 2, 2007 – May 27, 2007 The 39 Steps, January 15, 2008 – January 10, 2010The Norman Conquests: Round and Round the Garden April 23, 2009 – July 26, 2009'The Norman Conquests: Table Manners, April 24, 2009 – July 26, 2009'The Norman Conquests: Living Together, April 25, 2009 – July 26, 2009Burn the Floor, August 2, 2009 – January 10, 2010Superior Donuts, October 1, 2009 – January 3, 2010A Little Night Music, December 13, 2009 – January 9, 2011La Cage Aux Folles, April 18, 2010 – May 1, 2011War Horse, April 14, 2011 – January 6, 2013The Mountaintop, October 13, 2011 – January 22, 2012 One Man, Two Guvnors, April 18, 2012 – September 2, 2012Nice Work If You Can Get It, April 24, 2012 – June 15, 2013Dead Accounts, November 29, 2012 – January 6, 2013 Ann, March 7, 2013 – June 30, 2013Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, January 12, 2014 – October 27, 2019Of Mice and Men, April 16, 2014 – July 27, 2014Hedwig and the Angry Inch, April 22, 2014– September 13, 2015An American in Paris, April 12, 2015 – October 9, 2016 Anastasia, April 24, 2017 – March 31, 2019 Ain't Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations, March 21, 2019 – January 16, 2022Life of Pi, March 30, 2023 – July 23, 2023
  • Redwood, February 13, 2025 - May 18, 2025

Off-Broadway

Edith Stein, January 8, 1994 – January 30, 1994The 39 Steps, March 25, 2010 – January 16, 2011Stomp, February 27, 1994 – January 8, 2023

National Tours

The 39 Steps, August 2009–June 2010Burn the Floor, September 2010–June 2011La Cage Aux Folles, October 2011–November 2012 War Horse, June 2012– August 2014Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, September 2019–May 2023Ain't Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations, December 2021–2024

Los Angeles

Isn't It Romantic, October 18, 1984 – September 1, 1985The Normal Heart, April 21, 1985 – July 7, 1985Curse of the Starving Class, July 20, 1985 – February 16, 1986Excess Baggage, 1988Telegrams from Heaven, 1992Why We Have a Body, 1995

Publications