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Jeffrey Finn is a Tony Award-winning Broadway producer who currently serves as the Vice President and Executive Producer of Theater at the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington DC. A six-time Tony Award nominee, he is also the president and founder of Jeffrey Finn Productions, a live production company that specializes in First Class Broadway and touring theatricals including the 2022 Best Revival of a Musical Tony Winner Company. Other notable productions include Plaza Suite starring Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker, the Temptations musical, Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations, the 2016 revival of Sunday in the Park with George, amongst a roster of other award-winning performances. Jeffrey is also President and founder of Hot On Broadway, a corporate entertainment agency that works exclusively with stars from Broadway’s biggest shows. He is co-author and producer of the critically acclaimed Off-Broadway play Game Show. He is an upstanding member of the Broadway League and the Independent Producers Network, and a proud graduate of Connecticut College. He is a frequent lecturer on strategic fundraising, investor relations, and developing new works for the stage. Jeffrey received the 2013 Robert Whitehead Award for Outstanding Achievement in commercial theatre producing. Collectively, his shows have grossed over $250 million worldwide.
Since 1992, Jeffrey has produced twenty Broadway shows and over twenty-five National Tours and Regional Productions. His Broadway credits include the Tony Award winning revival of Company starring Katrina Lenk and Patti LuPone; Macbeth starring Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga; Neil Simon’s Plaza Suite starring Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick; Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations; the Broadway revival of Sunday in the Park with George, starring Jake Gyllenhaal; Eugene O’Neill’s Hughie starring Forest Whitaker; An Act of God starring Jim Parsons and Sean Hayes; The Elephant Man starring Bradley Cooper; Will Eno’s The Realistic Joneses starring Toni Collette, Michael C. Hall, Tracy Letts and Marisa Tomei; John Logan’s critically acclaimed I’ll Eat You Last starring Bette Midler; Dead Accounts starring Katie Holmes and Norbert Leo Butz; Seminar starring Alan Rickman; Kathie Lee Gifford’s Scandalous starring Carolee Carmello; the Tony Award nominated production of Green Day’s American Idiot; the Tony Award nominated revival of A View From The Bridge starring Liev Schreiber and Scarlett Johansson; David Mamet’s Oleanna starring Julia Stiles and Bill Pullman; Noël Coward’s Blithe Spirit starring Angela Lansbury, Rupert Everett and Christine Ebersole; and the Tony Award nominated revival of On Golden Pond starring James Earl Jones. London: The Elephant Man starring Bradley Cooper. Regional: The Honeymooners, a new musical comedy. National Tour highlights include The Music Of Andrew Lloyd Webber; The Who’s Tommy; Leader Of The Pack; Tell Me On A Sunday; Promises, Promises; Company; Chess; and numerous Broadway Songbooks concert tours.
As Vice President and Executive Producer of Theater at The Kennedy Center, Jeffrey’s responsibilities include commissioning, curating, producing, and presenting the organization’s theater offerings. In this role he has created Broadway Center Stage, a semi-staged concert series of the most beloved musicals featuring talent direct from Broadway. The inaugural 17/18 season included: Chess starring Raul Esparza, Karen Olivo, Ramin Karimloo and Ruthie Ann Miles, directed by Michael Mayer and featuring a new book by Danny Strong; In The Heights starring Anthony Ramos, Vanessa Hudgens, and Eden Espinosa, directed by Stephanie Klemons; How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying starring Skylar Astin, Betsy Wolfe and Michael Urie, directed by Michael Urie with choreography by Denis Jones. The 18/19 season included Little Shop of Horrors starring Megan Hilty and Josh Radnor, directed by Mark Brokaw; The Music Man, starring Norm Lewis, Jessie Mueller, and Rosie O’Donnell, directed by Marc Bruni; and The Who’s Tommy, starring Casey Cott, Christian Borle, and Mandy Gonzalez, directed by Josh Rhodes. The 19/20 season will included Footloose and Next to Normal starring Rachel Bay Jones. The upcoming season includes Guys and Dolls, Sunset Boulevard and Kiss of the Spider Woman.
Beyond The Kennedy Center, Jeffrey is notable for his relationships with some of the top regional and not-for-profit theatres around the country and the globe, including Center Theatre Group, The 5th Avenue Theatre, Paper Mill Playhouse, and many others.
As a corporate event professional under the banner “Hot On Broadway,” Jeffrey has produced customized musical entertainment across the globe for several Fortune 500 companies, including General Motors, Disney, Bayer, GE, The Ritz-Carlton, PepsiCo, Toyota, Citi, Prudential, Fidelity, H&R Block, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and many more. His business accomplishments have been featured in American Express Business Platinum Ventures Magazine, Events Magazine, Corporate & Incentive Travel, Southern California Meetings & Events, and Meetings Minnesota’s Hospitality Journal.
Jeffrey co-authored the critically acclaimed Off-Broadway play Game Show. The play continues to be produced extensively both domestically and internationally.