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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 (2014), Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2014), An American in Paris (2019), and Life of Pi (2023). She was also the executive producer of the films A Call to Spy (2019) and Radium Girls (2018). Plays that she co-produces on Broadway have received Drama Desk Awards, Drama League Awards, Olivier Awards, Outer Critics Circle Awards, and four Tony Awards.

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Early life

Leve is a graduate of the Indiana University Bloomington. [1]

Career

Leve began producing plays in Los Angeles and San Francisco in from 1984 to 1995. [2] [3] 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. [4] 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. [5]

Leve's other Broadway productions include Of Mice and Men starring James Franco and Chris O'Dowd, Ann: An Affectionate Portrait of 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. [6] 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. [7] 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 co-produced the play Life of Pi , which ran on Broadway from March 30, 2023 to July 23, 2023. [6] Life of Pi will begin 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, [6] 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. [8] As of the2023–24 academic year, she is a visiting scholar with the Department of Theatre, Drama, and Contemporary Dance at Indiana University Bloomington. [8]

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Los Angeles and San Francisco

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