Sonia Friedman is a prolific British West End

West End theatre

West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres of London's 'Theatreland', the West End. Along with New York's Broadway theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English speaking...

 and Broadway

Broadway theatre

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 theatre producer. She is the younger sister of actress Maria Friedman

Maria Friedman

Maria Friedman is an English actress working in television, musical theatre, and concerts. She has won three Olivier Awards for her stage work.-Early years:...

.

Biography and career

The youngest daughter of violinist Leonard Friedman and pianist Clair Friedman, she was educated at St Christopher's School

St Christopher School, Letchworth

St Christopher School is a boarding and day co-educational independent school located in Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire. Established in 1915 shortly after Ebenezer Howard founded Letchworth Garden City, the school is a long-time proponent of progressive education...

, Letchworth

Letchworth

Letchworth Garden City, commonly known as Letchworth, is a town and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England. The town's name is taken from one of the three villages it surrounded - all of which featured in the Domesday Book. The land used was first purchased by Quakers who had intended to farm the...

, Hertfordshire

Hertfordshire

Hertfordshire is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East region of England. The county town is Hertford.The county is one of the Home Counties and lies inland, bordered by Greater London , Buckinghamshire , Bedfordshire , Cambridgeshire and...

, and trained as a stage manager at the Central School of Speech and Drama

Central School of Speech and Drama

The Central School of Speech and Drama was founded in London in 1906 by Elsie Fogerty to offer a new form of training in speech and drama for young actors and other students...

. However, it was after organizing a benefit for World Aids Day

World AIDS Day

World AIDS Day, observed December 1 every year, is dedicated to raising awareness of the AIDS pandemic caused by the spread of HIV infection. Government and health officials observe the day, often with speeches or forums on the AIDS topics. Since 1995, the President of the United States has made an...

 during the late 1980s that saw 200 celebrities working as shop assistants in Covent Garden

Covent Garden

Covent Garden is a district in London on the eastern fringes of the West End, between St. Martin's Lane and Drury Lane. It is associated with the former fruit and vegetable market in the central square, now a popular shopping and tourist site, and the Royal Opera House, which is also known as...

 that she decided to follow a career as a producer.

After working at the National Theatre

Royal National Theatre

The Royal National Theatre in London is one of the United Kingdom's two most prominent publicly funded theatre companies, alongside the Royal Shakespeare Company...

 between 1988 and 1993 (fulfilling the roles of Education Manager, Head of Education and Producer of Mobile Productions and Theatre for Young People), she co-founded the production company Out of Joint

Out of Joint theatre company

Out of Joint is a British and international touring theatre company based in London. It specialises in the commissioning and production of new writing, interspersed with occasional revivals and classic productions....

 in 1993 with Max Stafford-Clark

Max Stafford-Clark

Maxwell Robert Guthrie Stewart Stafford-Clark is an English Theatre Director.-Life and career:He went to school at Felsted and Riverdale Country School in New York City. He has worked as a theatre director since he left Trinity College, Dublin.His directing career began as associate director of...

. Out of Joint went on to become one of the UK's foremost theatre companies, and from 1998, Friedman worked as a producer for the Ambassador Theatre Group

Ambassador Theatre Group

The Ambassador Theatre Group is an independent operator of theatres in the United Kingdom. Formed in 1992, by Howard Panter and Rosemary Squire,OBE, it acquired the Live Nation theatre group in November 2009.-List of theatres:...

. She launched her own company, Sonia Friedman Productions, in 2002, and is regarded as one of the most influential producers working in British theatre, having for two years running been placed at number 12 in the The Stage 100

The Stage

The Stage is a weekly British newspaper founded in 1880, available nationally and published on Thursdays. Covering all areas of the entertainment industry but focused primarily on theatre, it contains news, reviews, opinion, features and other items of interest, mainly to those who work within the...

 - The Stage’s annual guide to the 100 most influential people in UK theatre.

In 2006 Friedman was one of the judges on Channel 4

Channel 4

Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began working on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the Channel...

's The Play's The Thing.

Credits

• Shopping and Fucking
  Shopping and Fucking
  Shopping and Fucking is a 1996 play by English playwright Mark Ravenhill. It was Ravenhill's first full-length play. It received its first public reading at the Finborough Theatre, London, in 1995...
  
   (1996)
• A Day In The Death of Joe Egg
  A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
  A Day in the Death of Joe Egg is a 1967 play by English playwright Peter Nichols, first staged at the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow, Scotland before transferring to London's West End theatres in 1968.-Plot summary:Characters* Bri* Grace* Joe* Freddie...
  
   (2001)
• Benefactors (play)
  Benefactors (play)
  Benefactors is a 1984 play by Michael Frayn. It is set in the 1960s and concerns an idealistic architect David and his wife Jane and their relationship with the cynical Colin and his wife Sheila. David is attempting to build some new homes to replace the slum housing of Basuto Road and is gradually...
  
   (2002)
• Up For Grabs
  Up for Grabs (play)
  Up For Grabs is a play by Australian playwright David Williamson.Set in the booming international art market from 1990, which was fuelled by the dot com boom, it involves scenes of an alternate sexual nature...
  
   (2002)
• Afterplay (2002)
• What the Night Is For (2002)
• Macbeth
  Macbeth
  The Tragedy of Macbeth is a play by William Shakespeare about a regicide and its aftermath. It is Shakespeare's shortest tragedy and is believed to have been written sometime between 1603 and 1607...
  
   (2002)
• Ragtime the musical
  Ragtime (musical)
  Ragtime is a musical with a book by Terrence McNally, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, and music by Stephen Flaherty.Based on the 1975 novel by E. L. Doctorow, Ragtime tells the story of three groups in America, represented by Coalhouse Walker Jr., a Harlem musician; Mother, the matriarch of a WASP family in...
  
   (2003)
• A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
  A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
  A Day in the Death of Joe Egg is a 1967 play by English playwright Peter Nichols, first staged at the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow, Scotland before transferring to London's West End theatres in 1968.-Plot summary:Characters* Bri* Grace* Joe* Freddie...
  
   (2003) on Broadway
• Sexual Perversity in Chicago
  Sexual Perversity in Chicago
  Sexual Perversity in Chicago is a play written by David Mamet that examines the sex lives of two men and two women in the 1970's. The play is filled with profanity and regional jargon that reflects the working-class language of Chicago. The characters' relationships become hindered by the caustic...
  
   (2003)
• Absolutely! {Perhaps} (2003)
• Hitchcock Blonde (2003)
• See You Next Tuesday (2003)
• Jumpers
  Jumpers
  Jumpers is a 1972 play by Tom Stoppard. It explores and satirises the field of academic philosophy, likening it to a less-than skilful competitive gymnastics display...
  
   (2003)
• Calico (2004)
• Endgame
  Endgame (play)
  Endgame, by Samuel Beckett, is a one-act play with four characters, written in a style associated with the Theatre of the Absurd. It was originally written in French ; as was his custom, Beckett himself translated it into English. The play was first performed in a French-language production at the...
  
   (2004)
• Guantánamo (2004)
• The Woman in White
  The Woman in White (musical)
  The Woman in White is a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and David Zippel with a book by Charlotte Jones, based on the novel The Woman in White written by Wilkie Collins...
  
   (2004)
• By the Bog of Cats (2005)
• Whose Life is it Anyway (2005)
• The Home Place
  The Home Place
  The Home Place is a play written by Brian Friel that first premiered at the Gate Theatre, Dublin on 1 February 2005. After a sold-out season at the Gate it transferred to London's West End on 25 May 2005, where it won the 2005 Evening Standard Award for Best Play, and made its American premiere at...
  
   (2005)
• As You Like It
  As You Like It
  As You Like It is a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 or early 1600 and first published in the folio of 1623. The play's first performance is uncertain, though a performance at Wilton House in 1603 has been suggested as a possibility...
  
   (2005)
• Shoot the Crow (2005)
• Celebration (play)
  Celebration (play)
  Celebration is a play by British playwright Harold Pinter. It was first presented as a double-bill with Pinter's first play The Room on Thursday 16 March 2000 at the Almeida Theatre in London.-Synopsis:...
  
  (2005)
• Otherwise Engaged (2005)
• The Woman in White
  The Woman in White (musical)
  The Woman in White is a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and David Zippel with a book by Charlotte Jones, based on the novel The Woman in White written by Wilkie Collins...
  
   (2005) on Broadway
• Donkeys' Years (2006)
• On the Third Day (2006)
• Eh Joe
  Eh Joe
  Eh Joe is a piece for television, written in English by Samuel Beckett, his first work for the medium. It was begun on the author’s fifty-ninth birthday, 13 April 1965, and completed by 1 May...
  
   (2006)
• Bent
  Bent (play)
  Bent is a 1979 play by Martin Sherman. It revolves around the persecution of gays in Nazi Germany, and takes place during and after the Night of the Long Knives....
  
   (2006)
• Faith Healer
  Faith Healer
  Faith Healer is a play by Brian Friel about the life of faith healer Francis Hardy as monologued through the shifting memories of Hardy, his wife, Grace, and stage manager, Teddy.-Synopsis:...
  
   (2006) on Broadway which was nominated for a Best Revival Tony Award
• Love Song (2006)
• Rock 'n' Roll
  Rock 'n' Roll (play)
  Rock 'n' Roll is a play by British playwright Tom Stoppard that premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 2006.-Plot summary:The play is concerned with the significance of rock and roll in the emergence of the socialist movement in Eastern Bloc Czechoslovakia between the Prague Spring of...
  
   (2006)
• King of Hearts (2007)
• The Dumb Waiter
  The Dumb Waiter
  The Dumb Waiter is a one-act play by 2005 Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter written in 1957; it premiered at the Hampstead Theatre Club, on 21 January 1960...
  
   (2007)
• Boeing-Boeing (2007)
• In Celebration (2007)
• Rock 'n' Roll
  Rock 'n' Roll (play)
  Rock 'n' Roll is a play by British playwright Tom Stoppard that premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 2006.-Plot summary:The play is concerned with the significance of rock and roll in the emergence of the socialist movement in Eastern Bloc Czechoslovakia between the Prague Spring of...
  
   (2007) on Broadway
• Is He Dead?
  Is He Dead?
  Is He Dead? is a play by Mark Twain. It was first published in print in 2003, after Mark Twain scholar Shelley Fisher Fishkin read the manuscript in the archives of the Mark Twain Papers at the University of California at Berkeley. The play was long known to scholars but never attracted much...
  
   (2007) on Broadway
• Donkeys' Years (2007)
• Hergé's Adventures of Tintin
  The Adventures of Tintin
  The Adventures of Tintin is a series of classic comic books created by Belgian artist , who wrote under the pen name of Hergé...
  
   (2007)
• Dealer's Choice (2007)
• Boeing-Boeing (2008) Australia
• Boeing-Boeing (2008) on Broadway
• That Face
  That Face
  That Face is a two-act play written by Polly Stenham. It premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in London on 26 April 2007, directed by Jeremy Herrin. The play was revived at the Duke of York's Theatre in the West End in 2008, opening on 1 May...
  
   (2008)
• Under the Blue Sky (2008)
• The Seagull
  The Seagull
  The Seagull is the first of what are generally considered to be the four major plays by the Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov. The Seagull was written in 1895 and first produced in 1896...
  
   (2008)
• No Man's Land
  No Man's Land (play)
  No Man's Land is a play by Harold Pinter written in 1974 and first produced and published in 1975. Its original production was at the Old Vic Theatre in London by the National Theatre on 23 April 1975, and it later transferred to Wyndhams Theatre, July 1975 - January 1976, the Lyttelton Theatre...
  
   (2008)
• La Cage Aux Folles (2008)
• Maria Friedman
  Maria Friedman
  Maria Friedman is an English actress working in television, musical theatre, and concerts. She has won three Olivier Awards for her stage work.-Early years:...
  
  : Re-Arranged (2008)
• Boeing-Boeing (2009) UK Tour
• Dancing at Lughnasa
  Dancing at Lughnasa
  Dancing at Lughnasa is a 1990 play by dramatist Brian Friel set in Ireland's County Donegal in August 1936 in the fictional town of Ballybeg. It is a memory play told from the point of view of the adult Michael Evans, the narrator...
  
   (2009)
• A View from the Bridge
  A View from the Bridge
  A View from the Bridge is a play by American playwright Arthur Miller that was first staged on September 29, 1955 as a one-act verse drama with A Memory of Two Mondays at the Coronet Theatre on Broadway. The play was unsuccessful and Miller subsequently revised the play to contain two acts; this...
  
   (2009)
• A Little Night Music
  A Little Night Music
  A Little Night Music is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Hugh Wheeler. Inspired by the Ingmar Bergman film Smiles of a Summer Night, it involves the romantic lives of several couples. Its title is a literal English translation of the German name for Mozart's Serenade...
  
   (2009)
• The Norman Conquests
  The Norman Conquests
  The Norman Conquests is a trilogy of plays written in 1973 by Alan Ayckbourn. The small scale of the drama is typical of Ayckbourn. There are only six characters, namely Norman, his wife Ruth, her brother Reg and his wife Sarah, Ruth's sister Annie, and Tom, Annie's next-door-neighbour...
  
   (2009)on Broadway
• The Mountaintop
  The Mountaintop
  The Mountaintop is a play by American playwright Katori Hall. It is a fictional depiction of the Reverend Martin Luther King's last night on earth set entirely in Room 306 of the Lorraine Motel on the eve of his assassination on April 4, 1968.-Productions:...
  
   (2009)
• Arcadia
  Arcadia (play)
  Arcadia is a 1993 play by Tom Stoppard concerning the relationship between past and present and between order and disorder and the certainty of knowledge...
  
   (2009)
• Othello
  Othello
  The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in approximately 1603, and based on the Italian short story "Un Capitano Moro" by Cinthio, a disciple of Boccaccio, first published in 1565...
  
   (2009)
• Prick Up Your Ears
  Prick Up Your Ears (play)
  Prick Up Your Ears is a play by Simon Bent, based on the life of playwright Joe Orton. Produced by Sonia Friedman it opened at the Comedy Theatre in London's West End on September 30th 2009 following previews from September 17th...
  
  (2009)
• After Miss Julie
  After Miss Julie
  After Miss Julie is a play which relocates August Strindberg's naturalist tragedy, Miss Julie , to an English country house in July 1945...
  
   (2009) on Broadway
• Legally Blonde
  Legally Blonde (musical)
  Legally Blonde is a musical with music and lyrics by Laurence O'Keefe and Nell Benjamin and book by Heather Hach. The story is based on the novel Legally Blonde by Amanda Brown and the 2001 film of the same name. It tells the story of Elle Woods, a sorority girl who enrolls at Harvard Law School to...
  
   (2009)
• A Little Night Music
  A Little Night Music
  A Little Night Music is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Hugh Wheeler. Inspired by the Ingmar Bergman film Smiles of a Summer Night, it involves the romantic lives of several couples. Its title is a literal English translation of the German name for Mozart's Serenade...
  
   on Broadway (2009)
• Jerusalem
  Jerusalem (play)
  Jerusalem is a play by Jez Butterworth that opened at the downstairs theatre of the Royal Court Theatre in London in 2009. The production starred Mark Rylance as Johnny 'Rooster' Byron and Mackenzie Crook as Ginger. After receiving rave reviews its run was extended. In January 2010 it transferred...
  
   (2010)
• Private Lives
  Private Lives
  Private Lives is a 1930 comedy of manners in three acts by Noël Coward. It focuses on a divorced couple who discover that they are honeymooning with their new spouses in neighbouring rooms at the same hotel. Despite a perpetually stormy relationship, they realise that they still have feelings for...
  
   (2010)
• The Prisoner of Second Avenue
  The Prisoner of Second Avenue
  The Prisoner of Second Avenue is an American black comedy play by Neil Simon, later made into a film released in 1975.The play ran on Broadway from November 1971 until September 1973, with Peter Falk and Lee Grant starring as Mel and Edna Edison, and Vincent Gardenia as Mel's brother Harry. The...
  
   (2010)
• All My Sons
  All My Sons
  All My Sons is a 1947 play by Arthur Miller. The play was twice adapted for film; in 1948, and again in 1987.The play opened on Broadway at the Coronet Theatre in New York City on January 29, 1947, closed on November 8, 1947 and ran for 328 performances...
  
   (2010)
• A View from the Bridge
  A View from the Bridge
  A View from the Bridge is a play by American playwright Arthur Miller that was first staged on September 29, 1955 as a one-act verse drama with A Memory of Two Mondays at the Coronet Theatre on Broadway. The play was unsuccessful and Miller subsequently revised the play to contain two acts; this...
  
   (2010) on Broadway
• Shirley Valentine
  Shirley Valentine
  Shirley Valentine is a one-character play by Willy Russell. Taking the form of a monologue by a middle-aged, working class Liverpool housewife, it focuses on her life before and after a transforming holiday abroad.-Plot:...
  
   and Educating Rita
  Educating Rita
  Educating Rita is a stage comedy by British playwright Willy Russell. It is a play for two actors set entirely in the office of an Open University lecturer....
  
   (2010)
• La Bete
  La Bête
  La Bête is a comedy by American playwright, David Hirson. Written in rhymed couplets of iambic pentameter, the Molière-inspired story, set in 17th century France, pits dignified, stuffy Elomire, the head of the royal court-sponsored theatre troupe, against the foppish, frivolous street entertainer...
  
   (2010) and on Broadway
• A Flea In Her Ear
  A Flea in Her Ear
  A Flea in Her Ear is a play by Georges Feydeau written in 1907, at the height of the Belle Époque.-Plot:...
  
   (2010)
• La Cage Aux Folles (2010) on Broadway
• The Children's Hour
  The Children's Hour
  The Children's Hour may refer to:* The Children's Hour , a game box containing three games for children released by Parker Bros in 1961....
  
   (2011)
• Clybourne Park
  Clybourne Park
  Clybourne Park is a 2010 play by Bruce Norris written in response to Lorraine Hansberry's play A Raisin in the Sun portraying fictional events set before and after the play and loosely based on real life events. The premiere took place in February 2010 at Playwrights Horizons in New York. The play...
  
   (2011)
• Arcadia
  Arcadia (play)
  Arcadia is a 1993 play by Tom Stoppard concerning the relationship between past and present and between order and disorder and the certainty of knowledge...
  
   (2011) on Broadway
• Jerusalem
  Jerusalem (play)
  Jerusalem is a play by Jez Butterworth that opened at the downstairs theatre of the Royal Court Theatre in London in 2009. The production starred Mark Rylance as Johnny 'Rooster' Byron and Mackenzie Crook as Ginger. After receiving rave reviews its run was extended. In January 2010 it transferred...
  
   (2011) on Broadway
• The Book of Mormon (2011) on Broadway
• Much Ado About Nothing
  Much Ado About Nothing
  Much Ado About Nothing is a comedy written by William Shakespeare about two pairs of lovers, Benedick and Beatrice, and Claudio and Hero....
  
   (2011)
• Betrayal
  Betrayal (play)
  Betrayal is a play written by Harold Pinter in 1978. Critically regarded as one of the English playwright's major dramatic works, it features his characteristically economical dialogue, characters' hidden emotions and veiled motivations, and their self-absorbed competitive one-upmanship,...
  
   (2011)
• Top Girls
  Top Girls
  Top Girls is a 1982 play by Caryl Churchill. It is about a woman named Marlene, a career-driven woman who is employed at the 'Top Girls' employment agency. The play examines issues of gender discrimination present in the Thatcherite society that it is set in...
  
   (2011)
• La Cage Aux Folles
  La Cage aux Folles
  La Cage aux Folles is a musical with a book by Harvey Fierstein and lyrics and music by Jerry Herman. Based on the 1973 French play of the same name by Jean Poiret, it focuses on a gay couple: Georges, the manager of a Saint-Tropez nightclub featuring drag entertainment, and Albin, his romantic...
  
   (2011) US Tour
• The Mountaintop
  The Mountaintop
  The Mountaintop is a play by American playwright Katori Hall. It is a fictional depiction of the Reverend Martin Luther King's last night on earth set entirely in Room 306 of the Lorraine Motel on the eve of his assassination on April 4, 1968.-Productions:...
  
   (2011) on Broadway
• Jerusalem (play)
  Jerusalem (play)
  Jerusalem is a play by Jez Butterworth that opened at the downstairs theatre of the Royal Court Theatre in London in 2009. The production starred Mark Rylance as Johnny 'Rooster' Byron and Mackenzie Crook as Ginger. After receiving rave reviews its run was extended. In January 2010 it transferred...
  
   (2011)

Awards

Tony Awards

• The Book Of Mormon, Best Musical, 2011
• The Book Of Mormon, Trey Parker, Robert Lopez and Matt Stone, Best Book of a Musical, 2011
• The Book Of Mormon, Trey Parker, Robert Lopez and Matt Stone, Best Original Score, 2011
• The Book Of Mormon, Casey Nicholaw and Trey Parker, Best Direction of a Musical, 2011
• The Book Of Mormon, Larry Hochman & Stephen Oremus, Best Orchestrations, 2011
• The Book Of Mormon, Scott Pask, Best Scenic Design of a Musical, 2011
• The Book Of Mormon, Brian MacDevitt, Best Lighting Design of a Musical, 2011
• The Book Of Mormon, Brian Ronan, Best Sound Design of a Musical, 2011
• The Book Of Mormon, Nikki M. James, Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical, 2011
• Jerusalem, Mark Rylance, Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play, 2011
• La Cage Aux Folles, Best Revival of a Musical, 2010
• La Cage Aux Folles, Douglas Hodge, Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical, 2010
• La Cage Aux Folles, Terry Johnson, Best Direction of a Musical, 2010
• A Little Night Music, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical, 2010
• A View From the Bridge, Scarlett Johansson, Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play, 2010
• The Norman Conquests, Best Revival of a Play, 2009
• Boeing-Boeing, Best Revival of a Play, 2008
• Boeing-Boeing, Mark Rylance, Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play, 2008
• Faith Healer, Ian McDiarmid, Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play, 2006
• Noises Off, Katie Finneran, Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play, 2002

Olivier Awards

• Legally Blonde, Best New Musical, 2011
• Legally Blonde, Sheridan Smith, Best Actress in a Musical, 2011
• Legally Blonde, Jill Halfpenny, Best Performance in a Supporting Role in a Musical, 2011
• The Mountaintop, Best New Play, 2010
• Jerusalem, Mark Rylance, Best Actor in a Play, 2010
• Jerusalem, Ultz, Best Set Design, 2010
• La Cage Aux Folles, Best Musical Revival, 2009
• La Cage Aux Folles, Douglas Hodge, Best Actor in a Musical, 2009
• Rock 'n' Roll, Rufus Sewell, Best Actor in a Play, 2007
• Woman in White, Mick Potter, Best Sound Design, 2005
• Hitchcock Blonde, William Dudley, Best Set Design, 2004
• Ragtime, Maria Friedman, Best Actress in a Musical, 2004

Evening Standard Awards

Evening Standard Awards

The Evening Standard Theatre Awards, established in 1955, are presented annually for outstanding achievements in London Theatre. Sponsored by the Evening Standard newspaper, they are announced in late November or early December...

• Jerusalem, Best Play, 2009
• Jerusalem, Mark Rylance, Best Actor, 2009
• Othello, Lenny Henry, Outstanding Newcomer, 2009
• That Face, Polly Stenham, Most Promising Playwright, 2007
• Home Place, by Brian Friel, Best Play, 2005

Drama Desk Awards

• The Book of Mormon, Outstanding Musical, 2011
• The Book of Mormon, Casey Nicholaw and Trey Parker, Outstanding Director of a Musical, 2011
• The Book of Mormon, Trey Parker, Robert Lopez and Matt Stone, Outstanding Music, 2011
• The Book of Mormon, Trey Parker, Robert Lopez and Matt Stone, Outstanding Lyrics, 2011
• La Cage aux Folles, Outstanding Revival of a Musical, 2010
• La Cage aux Folles, Douglas Hodge, Outstanding Actor in a Musical, 2010
• La Cage aux Folles, Matthew Wright, Outstanding Costume Design, 2010
• A Little Night Music, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Outstanding Actress in a Musical, 2010
• A View From the Bridge, Outstanding Revival of a Play, 2010
• A View From the Bridge, Liev Schreiber, Outstanding Actor in a Play, 2010
• The Norman Conquests, Outstanding Revival of a Play, 2009
• The Norman Conquests, Matthew Warchus, Outstanding Director, 2009
• The Norman Conquests, Outstanding Ensemble Performance, 2009
• Boeing-Boeing, Outstanding Revival of a Play, 2008
• Boeing-Boeing, Mark Rylance, Outstanding Actor in a Play, 2008
• A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, Eddie Izzard, Outstanding Actor in a Play, 2003

Critics' Circle Awards

• All My Sons, Best Actor, David Suchet, 2011
• Clybourne Park, Best New Play, 2011
• Jerusalem, Best New Play, 2010
• Jerusalem, Mark Rylance, Best Actor, 2010
• La Cage Aux Folles, Best Musical, 2009

The Whatsonstage Awards

• All My Sons, Zoe Wanamaker, Best Actress in a Play, 2011
• All My Sons, David Suchet, Best Actor in a Play, 2011
• Legally Blonde, Sheridan Smith, Best Actress in a Musical, 2011
• Legally Blonde, Jill Halfpenny, Best Supporting Actress in a Musical, 2011
• Shirley Valentine, Meer Syal, Best Solo Performance, 2011
• Legally Blonde, by Neil Benjamin, Lawrence O’Keefe & Heather Hach, Best New Musical, 2011
• Legally Blonde, Jerry Mitchell, Best Choreographer, 2011
• La Cage Aux Folles, John Barrowman, Best Takeover Role, 2010
• Jerusalem, by Jez Butterworth, Best New Play, 2010
• La Cage Aux Folles, Tracie Bennett, Best Supporting Actress in a Musical, 2009
• Under The Blue Sky, by David Eldridge, Best New Play, 2009
• La Cage Aux Folles, Lynne Page, Best Choreographer, 2009
• The Dumb Waited, Lee Evans, Best Supporting Actor, 2008
• Rock ‘n’ Roll, by Tom Stoppard, Best New Play, 2007
• Rock ‘n’ Roll, Trevor Nunn, Best Director, 2007
• Otherwise Engaged, Anthony Head, Best Supporting Actor, 2006
• The Woman in White, Michael Ball, Best Takeover Role, 2006
• The Woman in White, Maria Freidman, Best Actress in a Musical, 2005
• The Woman in White, Angela Christian, Best Supporting Actress in a Musical, 2005
• The Woman in White, Michael Crawford, Best Actor in a Musical, 2005
• The Woman in White, Trevor Nunn, Best Director, 2005
• The Woman in White, William Dudley, Best Set Designer, 2005
• What the Night Is For, Gillian Anderson, Best Actress in a Play, 2003
• Up For Grabs, Sian Thomas, Best Supporting Actress in a Play, 2003
• Up For Grabs, Madonna’s West End debut, Theatre Event of the Year, 2003
• A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, Victoria Hamilton, Best Actress in a Play, 2002
• A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, Best Play Revival, 2002

External links

• Sonia Friedman Productions
• Out of Joint Theatre