Barbara Whitman

Barbara Whitman is a theatrical producer who made her Broadway debut producing A Raisin in the Sun, starring Sean Combs, Phylicia Rashad, Audra McDonald, and Sanaa Lathan. Other Broadway credits include Appropriate starring Sarah Paulson (Tony Award and Drama Desk Award, Best Play Revival), Good Night, Oscar starring Sean Hayes, A Strange Loop (Tony Award and Drama Desk Award, Best Musical and Pulitzer Prize),  Diana – The Musical, Burn This starring Adam Driver and Keri Russell, Angels in America (Tony and Drama Desk Award, Best Play Revival), 1984, The Glass Menagerie starring Sally Fields, War Paint starring Patti LuPone and Christine Ebersole, The Humans (Tony Award, Best Play), Oh, Hello starring Nick Kroll and John Mulaney, Fully Committed starring Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Fun Home (Tony Award, Best Musical), Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Tony and Drama Desk Award, Best Musical Revival), Of Mice and Men starring James Franco, If/Then starring Idina Menzel, Hands on a Hardbody, Red (Tony and Drama Desk Awards, Best Play), Next to Normal (Pulitzer Prize),  Hamlet starring Jude Law, 33 Variations starring Jane Fonda, Mary Stuart, Legally Blonde – The Musical, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.  National tours include Fun Home, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, If/Then, Murder for Two, Next to Normal, Legally Blonde – The Musical, …Spelling Bee, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Frost/Nixon.  In London, productions include Good Night, Oscar, A Strange Loop and Fun Home.  A native New Yorker, Barbara attended NYU’s Gallatin School and received an MFA in Theatre Management and Producing from Columbia University. She’s serves on the Board of Governors of the Broadway League, is on the Board of Trustees of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation, as well as a member of Columbia University's School of the Arts Dean’s Council.  Current productions include Ceilidh by Scott Gilmour and Claire McKenzie and the 20^th anniversary revival of Spelling Bee.