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Producer Sonia Friedman is the biggest female producer in the UK, and desrvedly
so. A rising talent, she produces, modern plays to shakesepre to musical theatre, brings the big names across the pond, and
takes the shows all over London to broadway. Take a look at another amazing talent!
Sonia Friedman Productions Producer
Sonia Friedman began her professional theatre career as a Producer in 1989 as the Head of Mobile Productions and Theatre
For Young People at the National Theatre. In 1993 Sonia co-founded Out of Joint Theatre Company with Max Stafford-Clark, now
one of Britain’s leading and most successful new writing companies. In 1998 she became the Producer for the Ambassador
Theatre Group, and in 2002 she founded Sonia Friedman Productions.
West End Theatre includes: Guantanamo ‘honor bound to defend freedom’ by Victoria Brittain and Gillian
Slovo from spoken evidence; Endgame by Samuel Beckett, directed by Matthew Warchus, starring Michael Gambon and Lee
Evans; Jumpers by Tom Stoppard, directed by David Leveaux, starring Simon Russell Beale and Essie Davis; Hitchcock
Blonde a new play written and directed by Terry Johnson, with Rosamund Pike; Absolutely! {perhaps} by Luigi
Pirandello in a new version by Martin Sherman, directed by Franco Zeffirelli, starring Joan Plowright; Sexual Perversity
in Chicago by David Mamet, directed by Lindsay Posner, starring Matthew Perry, Minnie Driver, Hank Azaria and Kelly Reilly;
Calico a new play by Michael Hastings, directed by Edward Hall; Ragtime book by Terrence McNally, music
by Stephen Flaherty and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, directed by Stafford Arima; A Day in the Death of Joe Egg by Peter
Nichols, starring Eddie Izzard, Clive Owen and Victoria Hamilton (also on Broadway); Up For Grabs by David Williamson,
starring Madonna; Macbeth starring Sean Bean and Samantha Bond; On An Average Day a new play by John Kolvenbach,
directed by John Crowley, starring Woody Harrelson and Kyle MacLachlan; Noises Off by Michael Frayn, directed by
Jeremy Sams, with various casts including Patricia Hodge, Lynn Redgrave and Patti LuPone (also on Broadway); Benefactors
by Michael Frayn; Lobby Hero a new play by Kenneth Lonergan; Afterplay by Brian Friel, starring John
Hurt and Penelope Wilton; What the Night is For by Michael Weller, starring Gillian Anderson and Roger Allam; See
You Next Tuesday by Francis Veber, adapted by Ronald Harwood, starring Nigel Havers and Ardal O’Hanlon; Gagarin
Way a new play by Gregory Burke; Maria Friedman at the New Ambassadors; Marc Salem’s Mind Games;
A Servant to Two Masters by Carlo Goldoni in a new adaptation by Lee Hall; Port Authority a new play by
Conor McPherson; Spoonface Steinberg a new play by Lee Hall; Speed-the-Plow by David Mamet; In Flame
a new play by Charlotte Jones; The Mystery of Charles Dickens a new play by Peter Ackroyd, starring Simon Callow;
The Late Middle Classes by Simon Gray (UK tour); Last Dance at Dum Dum a new play by Ayub Khan Din. With
Out of Joint, Sonia produced the world premières of the following new plays (all directed by Max Stafford-Clark): Shopping
and F***ing by Mark Ravenhill; The Queen and I by Sue Townsend; The Libertine by Stephen Jeffreys;
The Steward of Christendom by Sebastian Barry; The Break of Day by Timberlake Wertenbaker; The Positive
Hour by April de Angelis; Our Lady of Sligo by Sebastian Barry; Blue Heart by Caryl Churchill. Sonia Friedman
has also produced The Man of Mode, Road and Three Sisters (Royal Court), Our Country’s Good
and Maria Friedman By Special Arrangement (Donmar Warehouse, Olivier Award winner).
SFP is a subsidiary of the Ambassador Theatre Group.
For SFP: Producer
Sonia Friedman Associate Producer
John Richardson Associate Producer
Matthew Gordon Business Affairs Manager Diane Benjamin Production
Accountant Louise Mansfield Acting Production Assistant
Cara Rodway Marketing Elaine
McGowan, Martin Gray
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Sonia at her play UP FOR GRABS premiere night |
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