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Catherine Schreiber is a five-time Tony Award-winning and a one-time Olivier Award-winning Broadway producer.
Her Tony Awards include: Company , The Lehman Trilogy , The Inheritance , Angels in America , and Clybourne Park. She is best known for Company (2022) and Scottsboro Boys (2011).
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She was named the Broadway Global Producer of the Year in 2017 and has received 11 Tony Nominations and 5 Olivier Nominations. She has also won an Evening Standard Award and a London Outer Critics' Circle Award for The Scottsboro Boys . She is currently a producer of Company (Broadway), The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (UK), The Play that Goes Wrong (Off-Broadway and Tour), Pretty Woman (UK and Tour), and Fiddler on the Roof (Tour). Schreiber is also the creator and interview host of Broadway and Beyond TV for Reach TV. The Elliott Harper and Catherine Schreiber production of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe will open in the West End this July.
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Schreiber was born in Queens, New York, and grew up in Great Neck, Nassau County, New York (on Long Island).
After Yale College (where she was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa, and graduated magna cum laude, with Honors in English), she worked Off-Broadway in New York as an actress and then moved to Los Angeles, where she got married and raised her children.
An actress, producer, and writer, she has had scripts in development with Disney, Sony, and Tom Mount, and a TV series [ which? ] with CBS.
She is also a member of the Broadway League, the Professional League of Women's Producers, and was a former Founder of the Center Theatre Group, Los Angeles. In 2012, Schreiber received the Key to the City of Scottsboro, Alabama for her work with the Scottsboro Boys Museum.
In 2013, Schreiber gave the keynote address when Governor Bentley of Alabama signed The Scottsboro Boys Act exonerating the Scottsboro Boys. [1]
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