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Tony Award The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Broadway Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Award, recognizes excellence in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ce ...
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Olivier Award The Laurence Olivier Awards, or simply the Olivier Awards, are presented annually by the Society of London Theatre to recognise excellence in professional theatre in London at an annual ceremony in the capital. The awards were originally known a ...
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Biography

She began producing Broadway plays and musicals in 2013. Her first production credit was on '' Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike'', which won the Tony Award for Best Play in
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. That year, she also began producing ''
A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder ''A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder'' is a musical comedy, with the book and lyrics by Robert L. Freedman and the music and lyrics by Steven Lutvak. It is based on the 1907 novel '' Israel Rank: The Autobiography of a Criminal'' by Roy Horn ...
'' and remained on as producer during its first national tour. The original production won the
Tony Award for Best Musical The Tony Award for Best Musical is given annually to the best new Broadway musical, as determined by Tony Award voters. The award is one of the ceremony's longest-standing awards, having been presented each year since 1949. The award goes to the ...
in 2014. Also that year, she was a producer on the revival of '' The Elephant Man'' which starred
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and
Patricia Clarkson Patricia Davies Clarkson (born December 29, 1959) is an American actress. She has starred in numerous leading and supporting roles in a variety of films ranging from independent film features to major film studio productions. Her accolades inc ...
and had productions on both Broadway and the
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. ''The Elephant Man'' was one of three Adler-produced revivals to be nominated for a Tony in
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alongside ''
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'' and ''
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'', the latter of which ultimately won the award. Throughout 2016 and 2017, she produced several
Off-Broadway An off-Broadway theatre is any professional theatre venue in New York City with a seating capacity between 100 and 499, inclusive. These theatres are smaller than Broadway theatres, but larger than off-off-Broadway theatres, which seat fewer th ...
plays including, ''
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'', ''Small Mouth Sounds'', and ''
Baghdaddy ''Baghdaddy,'' now titled ''Who's Your Baghdaddy, or How I Started the Iraq War,'' is a satirical musical comedy stage play with music and book by Marshall Paillet, lyrics and book by A. D. Penedo, based on an unproduced screenplay by J. T. Allen, ...
''. She returned to Broadway later in 2017, producing
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's ''
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'' (among others). In 2018, she produced the Broadway revival of ''
Angels in America ''Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes'' is a two-part play by American playwright Tony Kushner. The work won numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Tony Award for Best Play, and the Drama Desk Award f ...
'' which would go on to win the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play that year. As part of CatWenJam Productions, she produced ''
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'', which starred
Bryan Cranston Bryan Lee Cranston (born March 7, 1956) is an American actor and director who is best known for portraying Walter White in the AMC crime drama series ''Breaking Bad'' (2008–2013) and Hal in the Fox sitcom ''Malcolm in the Middle'' (2000–2 ...
. In addition to the aforementioned ''The Ferryman'', Adler produced the Broadway runs for both ''
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'' and '' Be More Chill'' in 2019. In 2019 Adler won the
Tony Award for Best Play The Tony Award for Best Play (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award given to the best new (non-musical) play on Broadway, as determined by Tony Award voters. There was no award in the Tonys' first ye ...
for producing '' The Ferryman'' and the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Musical Revival for producing Marianne Elliott's West End production of ''Company''. In 2020 Adler produced the
Tony Award for Best Musical The Tony Award for Best Musical is given annually to the best new Broadway musical, as determined by Tony Award voters. The award is one of the ceremony's longest-standing awards, having been presented each year since 1949. The award goes to the ...
nominee ''Tina: The Tina Turner Musical'' as well as Marianne Elliott's Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim's '' Company''.


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Catherine Adler Productions
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