David Binder

This article is about the producer. For the journalist, see David Binder (journalist).

David Binder (born October 28, 1967, in Los Angeles, California) is a Broadway, off-Broadway, and West End theater producer and artistic director of the Brooklyn Academy of Music.^[1]

David Binder
Born	October 28, 1967 (1967-10-28) (age 57) Los Angeles, California, US
Occupation	Theater producer, artistic director

Career

In 1998 Binder presented the off-Broadway play De La Guarda,^[2] and in 2007 produced Fuerzabruta, the show from the creators of De La Guarda.

Binder produced the first Broadway revival of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, starring Sean Combs, Audra McDonald, Phylicia Rashad and Sanaa Lathan. The 2004 production won two Tony Awards for Best Actress^[3] and Best Featured Actress in a Play.^[4] He is an Executive Producer of the ABC television movie based on the Broadway production.

In 2006 he produced The Public Sings: A 50th Anniversary Celebration for the Public Theater with Meryl Streep, Natalie Portman, Ben Stiller and Mike Nichols, among others.

In 2011, Binder produced Short Ride in a Fast Machine, IBM's Centennial Celebration at Lincoln Center.^[5]

In March 2012, Binder produced Kenneth Lonergan's This Is Our Youth at the Sydney Opera House starring Michael Cera and Kieran Culkin.^[6]

Binder taught at Princeton University where he was the Anschutz Distinguished Fellow in American Studies in 2012/2013.^[7]

Binder was guest artistic director of LIFT (London International Festival of Theatre) which took place in June 2018.^[8]

Binder produced Burn This^[9] in 2019, with stars Adam Driver and Keri Russell, the 2018 production^[10] of Network^[11] starring Bryan Cranston, and the 2014 productions of Hedwig and the Angry Inch starring Neil Patrick Harris^[12] and Of Mice and Men starring James Franco and Chris O'Dowd.^[13] Hedwig and the Angry Inch won four Tony Awards including Best Revival,^[14] and Of Mice and Men became the first Broadway show to be filmed by the National Theatre of Great Britain's NT Live and shown in cinemas around the world.^[15]

Awards

He is the recipient of the Robert Whitehead Award for Outstanding Achievement in Theatrical Producing,^[16] and has been honored by Performance Space 122.^[17]