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 upcoming projects include the 2024 Broadway revival of Gypsy, starring six-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald and directed by five-time Tony Award winner George C. Wolfe,[8] and the film adaptation of Terrence McNally, John Kander, and Fred Ebb's musical Kiss of the Spider Woman, written and directed by Bill Condon and starring Jennifer Lopez.[9]
His current productions include the Broadway musical Hadestown, winner of eight Tony Awards including Best Musical,[10][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.[11][12][13][14]
Kirdahy produced the New York Times Critic’s Pick Here We Are,[15] 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,”[16] 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.[15]
Kirdahy is also known for the Broadway production of the epic two-part play The Inheritance, winner of four Tony Awards including Best Play,[17][18][19] 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 became the highest-grossing August Wilson play in Broadway history.[20][21][22][23]
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][18] 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.[24] He has received additional Tony nominations for Broadway productions of Mothers and Sons, After Midnight, Ragtime, and Master Class.[3][25] 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?.[26] Off-Broadway, Kirdahy has produced The White Chip, The Jungle, and White Rabbit Red Rabbit, among other shows.[27][28]