Douglas Denoff
Douglas Denoff is a Tony Award-winning Broadway producer, writer and entrepreneur. He has twice won the Drama Desk Award as a producer and television's Emmy Award, and, in 2012 received his first Grammy nomination. Through his company Sutton Square Entertainment, his passion is to develop and produce original new musicals and plays that can be successful on Broadway, and in regional theatres and touring companies for decades; shows that can become new classics in the world of theatre.
Denoff is currently represented on Broadway as a co-producer of The Roommate starring Mia Farrow and Patti Lupone. He is also a co-producer of the hilarious revival of Once Upon A Mattress with Sutton Foster, Michael Urie and Ana Gasteyer.
He is co-producing Stereophonic which is the most Tony-nominated play in history with 13 nominations and 5 Awards including Best Play.
He was a co-producer on the Tony-nominated Best Revival of Lorraine Hansberry's The Sign In Sidney Brustein's Window, which transferred to Broadway after a sold-out run at BAM. The play stars Rachel Brosnahan, Oscar Issac, Gus Birney, Julian DeNiro, Miriam Silverman.
Previously he co-produced the continued run of Take Me Out, which won the 2022 Tony Award for Best Play, starring Jesse Tyler Ferguson. Take Me Out ran at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre on October 27, 2022 for 14 weeks only after it's sold-out run at Second Stage's Hayes Theatre.
Leading the slate of productions Denoff has on his agenda as lead producer is a site-specific production of Arthur Miller's A View From The Bridge to be presented in September 2024 at a pop-up 500-seat theatre under the Brooklyn Bridge; a theatre that will return every summer for a series called Broadway Under The Bridge.
Next is That's Broadway! The Moves, The Music, The Magic, directed by Josh Rhodes. The musical is a celebration of Broadway’s greatest choreography – a joyous...sexy...thrilling combination of Broadway's best dancers and its finest musicians. The song and dance numbers are recreated as they were originally choregraphed by dancers from the original productions.
Also on his agenda is is a hilarious revival of The Pirates of Penzance. The production, directed by John Rando and choreographed by Joshua Bergasse, received rave reviews during its sold-out run at Barrington Stages in the summer of 2016 and now comes to London with an all-star cast.
Denoff also will produce The Lucky Star by Karen Hartman, which ran at 59E59 Theatres in Spring 2022.
For upcoming seasons in London and Broadway, Denoff will co-produce the new musical Little Dancer, directed by Susan Stroman, starring NYC Ballet Principal Tiler Peck. Music is by Stephen Flaherty and book & lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, the creators of Ragtime, Once on this Island and Anastasia, The Musical.
In 2019-2020 Denoff co-produced the Broadway production Slave Play by Jeremy O. Harris, and the Broadway production of Sea Wall/A Life starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom Sturridge which recouped its full capitalization in only a 9-week Broadway run. Both plays received Tony nominations for Best Play, earning Denoff his sixth and seventh Tony nominations.
In 2018-2019 co-produced the hit musical Pretty Woman, starring Samantha Barks, Andy Karl, Orfeh, Eric Anderson and Jason Danieley. The show, directed by Jerry Mitchell (Kinky Boots) ran one year on Broadway and has productions in Germany, the UK and a north-American tour which recouped its entire investment.
He received his fifth Tony nomination as a co-producer of the 2018 Broadway revival of Harvey Fierstein’s Torch Song at the Hayes Theatre starring Michael Urie and Mercedes Ruehl, and the limited engagement in 2018 of the compelling new play American Son starring Kerry Washington, Stephen Pasquale, Eugene Lee and Jeremy Jordan was adapted as a film for Netflix. Both plays are New York Times Critics’ Picks.
Denoff was represented on Broadway in 2017-2018 as a co-producer of John Leguizamo's Latin History For Morons, which recouped its investment in 14.5 weeks. The production earned Denoff his 4th Tony nomination for Best Play and Mr. Leguizamo was also awarded a Special Tony Award for his body of work. Latin History for Morons was filmed for Netflix.
Denoff was represented in the 2016-2016 season on Broadway as a co-producer of the hit Revival of Fiddler On The Roof for which he received his third Tony nomination, he also co-produced David Mamet’s China Doll starring Al Pacino which recouped its full investment before the end of its 15-week limited run
Denoff received his second Tony nomination as a co-producer of the 2012 hit musical Nice Work If You Can Get It starring Matthew Broderick & Kelli O’Hara.
Denoff received his first Tony nomination in 2008 as a producer of 39 Steps, the hit comedy which ran over three years and 1135 performances on Broadway; Denoff was lead producer on the hit 2015-2016 off-Broadway revival of 39 Steps and he plans to move the show back to Broadway in 2025 season.
Off-Broadway, Denoff was a lead producer of the critically-acclaimed play Clever Little Lies by two-time Tony winner Joe DiPietro, which starred Emmy, Grammy and Golden Globe winner Marlo Thomas. He also was lead producer of Handle With Care, the romantic comedy by Emmy®-nominated author Jason Odell Williams, starring the legendary Tony®-nominee Carol Lawrence, directed by Karen Carpenter (Love, Loss, and What I Wore).Mr. Denoff resides in New York City. He is a Member of The Broadway League (www.broadwayleague.com ), The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences ( www.emmys.org ), and The Recording Academy (www.grammys.org).
www.suttonsquareentertainment.com.
