Tom Kirdahy
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Thomas Joseph Kirdahy (born June 18, 1963) is an American Tony and Olivier Award-winning theatrical producer, film producer, lawyer, and activist.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]
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Born | Thomas Joseph Kirdahy (1963-06-18) June 18, 1963 (age 60) Hauppauge, New York, U.S. |
Education | New York University (BA, JD) |
Occupation(s) | Theatre producer, lawyer |
Organization | Tom Kirdahy Productions |
Spouse | |
Website | www |
Kirdahy's current productions include the Broadway musical Hadestown, winner of eight Tony Awards including Best Musical,[8][7] and the off-Broadway revival of Little Shop of Horrors originally starring Jonathan Groff, Tammy Blanchard, and Christian Borle, which won the Drama Desk, Drama League and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best Revival of a Musical.[9][10][11][12]
Kirdahy is currently producing the New York Times Critic’s Pick Here We Are,[13] the final musical from Stephen Sondheim. Here We Are was written by Sondheim with a book by David Ives and direction by Joe Mantello. Described by the New York Times as “hands down, the most anticipated event of the fall season,”[14] the production opened at The Shed in Hudson Yards on October 22, 2023, and was immediately heralded as “cool and impossibly chic” by Jesse Green in his New York Times review.[13]
His other recent credits include the Broadway production of the epic two-part play The Inheritance, winner of four Tony Awards including Best Play,[15][16][17] and the Tony-nominated 2022 Broadway revival of August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Piano Lesson, starring Samuel L. Jackson, John David Washington, and Danielle Brooks, which recouped its original investment and became the highest-grossing August Wilson play in Broadway history.[18][19][20][21]
In 2023, Kirdahy produced the nine-time Tony Award-nominated original Broadway musical New York, New York—with a score by John Kander and Fred Ebb, additional lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda, and direction and choreography by Susan Stroman—which won the Tony Award for Best Scenic Design.[22][23] He also produced the Broadway play Grey House by Levi Holloway, a new psychological thriller directed by Joe Mantello and starring Laurie Metcalf, Tatiana Maslany, and Paul Sparks,[24] which broke new ground for the underrepresented psychological thriller/horror genre on Broadway.[25]
His other notable Broadway credits include the 2019 revival of Terrence McNally’s Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune starring Audra McDonald and Michael Shannon, which received two Tony Award nominations including Best Revival of a Play,[3][16] the musical Anastasia, the 2014 revival of It's Only a Play starring Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick, and The Visit starring Chita Rivera, which received five Tony Award nominations.[26] He has received additional Tony nominations for Broadway productions of Mothers and Sons, After Midnight, Ragtime, and Master Class.[3][27] His West End credits include the West End production of The Inheritance, which won four Olivier Awards including Best New Play, and Edward Albee's The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?.[28] Off-Broadway, Kirdahy has produced The White Chip, The Jungle, and White Rabbit Red Rabbit, among other shows.[29][30]
Kirdahy serves on The Broadway League Board of Governors,[31] the Board of Trustees of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS,[32] and the Advisory Council for the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin,[33] and is a founding director of Berwin Lee London New York Playwrights, Inc.[34] He was named the Broadway Global Producer of the Year in 2014, and received the Commercial Theater Institute's Robert Whitehead Award for Outstanding Achievement in Commercial Theater Producing in 2019.[35][36] In 2020, Tom was the recipient of the Miss Lilly Award, a prize in recognition of his advocacy for women in a male-dominated industry.[37]