Sonia Friedman
Award-Winning Theatre Producer
An accomplished Broadway and West End theatre producer, Sonia Friedman has dozens of theatre credits dating back to 1990 and has produced Tony Award-winning plays such as Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Ink, The Ferryman, and The Inheritance, the latter of which won Best Play at the 2020-21 Tony Awards. She has also won Olivier Awards for productions including Leopoldstadt (2020), Fiddler on the Roof (2020), Summer and Smoke (2019), Sunny Afternoon (2015), and The Book of Mormon (2014). In addition, Sonia Friedman has received several Drama Desk Awards, Critics’ Circle Awards, WhatsOnStage Awards, and Drama League Awards.
King Charles III (2015)
Most recently, Sonia Friedman produced The Shark is Broken (2021) at The Ambassadors Theatre. Her other recent West End productions since 2020 include Anna X, Walden, and Uncle Vanya at the Harold Pinter Theatre. She also produced The Jungle (2019), Consent (2018), 1984 (2017), and Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour (2017). Her Broadway productions include King Charles III (2015), The River (2014), Death of a Salesman (2012), and La Cage Aux Folles (2010), among many others.
160 new plays at various theaters
Sonia Friedman established her own theatre company in 2002 and has since produced in excess of 160 new plays at various theaters around the world. Recently, she brought Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, which received a record nine Olivier Awards, to San Francisco, Australia, and Germany. Productions are scheduled in Canada and Japan in 2022.
Ms. Friedman’s production company ranked first on The Stage 100 in 2019. Moreover, she was included on Time‘s 100 Most Influential People of 2018 and, the year prior, became the first three-time Producer of the Year winner at The Stage Awards. In 2016, she was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for her services to theatre. She worked in a variety of roles, including stage manager and head of education, at the National Theatre in London before producing her first play in 1990.
