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 (among others).
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 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Musical Revival for producing Marianne Elliott's West End production of 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 (Best Play, 2022), Company (Best Revival of a Musical, 2022), and Leopoldstadt (Best Play, 2023). She also co-produced the Broadway premiere of Thoughts of a Colored Man in 2021, the original musical Swept Away, which opened at the Longacre Theatre in 2024 and Robert Icke's reimagining of Oedipus, which played Studio 54 in the fall of 2025..
Production credits
Year Title Dates Venue Notes 2013 Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike March 14 – August 25, 2013 John Golden Theatre Tony Award for Best Play After Midnight November 3, 2013 – June 29, 2014 Brooks Atkinson Theatre A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder November 17, 2013 – January 17, 2016 Walter Kerr Theatre (and national tour) Tony Award for Best Musical 2014 The Velocity of Autumn April 21, 2014 – May 4, 2014 Booth Theatre This Is Our Youth September 11, 2014 – January 4, 2015 Cort Theatre Wiesenthal October 24, 2014 – February 1, 2015 Acorn Theatre Off-Broadway Side Show November 17, 2014 – January 4, 2015 St. James Theatre A Delicate Balance November 20, 2014 – February 22, 2015 John Golden Theatre The Elephant Man December 7, 2014 – February 21, 2015 Booth Theatre Broadway May 19 – August 8, 2015 Theatre Royal Haymarket West End 2015 Fish in the Dark March 5 – August 1, 2015 Cort Theatre Skylight April 2 – June 21, 2015 John Golden Theatre Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play The Flick May 18, 2015 – January 10, 2016 Barrow Street Theatre Off-Broadway On Your Feet! November 5, 2015 – August 20, 2017 Marquis Theatre (and national tour) 2016 Bright Star March 24 – June 26, 2016 Cort Theatre Exit Strategy April 13 – May 6, 2016 Cherry Lane Theatre Off-Broadway The Forgotten Woman May 31 – June 19, 2019 Bay Street Theater (Sag Harbor, NY) Regional Small Mouth Sounds July 13 – October 9, 2016 Pershing Square Signature Center Off-Broadway Butler July 27 – August 28, 2016 59E59 Theaters Off-Broadway The Roads to Home October 5 – November 27, 2016 Cherry Lane Theatre Off-Broadway 2017 Baghdaddy May 1 – June 25, 2017 St. Luke's Theatre Off-Broadway 1984 June 22 – October 8, 2017 Hudson Theatre Meteor Shower November 29, 2017 – January 21, 2018 Booth Theatre 2018 Angels in America March 25 – July 15, 2018 Neil Simon Theatre Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play The Ferryman October 21, 2018 – July 7, 2019 Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre Tony Award for Best Play Network December 6, 2018 – June 8, 2019 Belasco Theatre 2019 Be More Chill March 10 – August 11, 2019 Lyceum Theatre Tootsie April 23, 2019 – January 5, 2020 Marquis TheatreThe InheritanceNovember 17, 2019 - March 11, 2020Ethel Barrymore TheaterTony Award for Best Play2020Tina: The Tina Turner MusicalNovember 7, 2019 – PresentLunt-Fontanne Theatre2021Thoughts of a Colored ManOctober 13, 2021 - December 22, 2021Golden TheaterClosed early due to COVIDCompanyDecember 9, 2021 - July 31, 2022Bernard B. Jacobs TheatreTony Award for Best Revival of A MusicalThe Lehman TrilogyOctober 14, 2021 - January 2, 2022Nedelander TheaterTony Award for Best Play2022LeopoldstadtOctober 2, 2022 - July 2, 2023Longacre TheaterTony Award for Best Play2024Swept AwayNovember 19, 2024 - December 29, 2024Longacre Theater2025Call Me IzzyJune 12, 2025 - August 24, 2025Studio 5413 Going on 30September 21, 2025 - October 12, 2025Manchester Opera HouseOedipusOctober 30, 2025 - February 8, 2026Studio 542026About TimeFebruary 27, 2026 - April 5, 2026Marjorie S. Deane Little TheaterOff-BroadwayCelebrity AutobiographyMay 16, 2026 - August 16, 2026Shubert Theatre13 Going on 30 (musical)November 2026 - January 2027Ed Mirvish Theatre
Nominations and Awards
Year Award Category Nominee(s) Result Ref. 2013 Tony Award Best Play Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike 2014 Best Musical A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder After Midnight 2015 Best Revival of a Play This Is Our Youth The Elephant Man Skylight 2016 Best Musical Bright Star 2018 Best Revival of a Play Angels in America 2019 Best Play The Ferryman Best Musical Tootsie Olivier AwardBest Musical RevivalCompany 2020Tony AwardBest Musical Tina: The Tina Turner Musical Best PlayThe Inheritance 2022Best Revival of a MusicalCompany Best PlayThe Lehman Trilogy 2023Best PlayLeopoldstadt 2026Tony AwardBest Revival of a PlayOedipus
References
External links Catherine Adler Productions