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Sonia Friedman (née Sonia Anne Primrose Freedman; born April 1965) is a British West End and Broadway theatre producer. On 27 January 2017, Friedman was named Producer of the Year for the third year running at The Stage Awards, becoming the first person to win the award three times. In 2018, Friedman was featured in "TIME100", Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People of 2018 and was named Broadway Briefing's Show Person of the Year. In 2019, Sonia Friedman Productions was ranked The Stage 's most influential theatre producer in The Stage 100.




Early life


Friedman is the youngest of three daughters of Clair Llewelyn (née Sims), a concert pianist, and violinist Leonard Freedman (who later changed his name to Friedman), who was leader of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra under Sir Thomas Beecham and co-founder of many national institutions including the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Scottish Baroque Ensemble. Her father was from a Russian-Jewish immigrant family, and her mother is English. Her older sister is the actress and director Maria Friedman.




Career






= Theatre producer

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After working at the National Theatre between 1988 and 1993 (fulfilling the various roles of stage management, Education Manager, Head of Education and Producer of Mobile Productions and Theatre for Young People), she co-founded the new writing theatre company Out of Joint in 1993 with Max Stafford-Clark. From 1998, Friedman worked as a producer for the Ambassador Theatre Group. She launched her own theatre company, Sonia Friedman Productions, in 2002. Friedman's productions have been nominated for and won numerous Olivier, Tony and other awards.
At the 2014 Olivier Awards, Sonia Friedman Productions made Olivier Awards history by winning the most awards for any producer and for winning prizes for Best New Play (Chimerica), Best New Musical (The Book of Mormon), Best Play Revival (Ghosts) and Best Musical Revival (Merrily We Roll Along). In 2017, Friedman won producer of the year at The Stage Awards for a third year (becoming the first person to win the award three times), and was listed as no. 1 on The Stage power list, the second solo female to hold this position in the award's history and becoming the first person to top the list that wasn't a theatre owner.
SFP productions and co-productions received an unprecedented 31 nominations in the 2017 Olivier Awards – including a record-breaking 11 for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child – the most nominated new play in Olivier history. The show went on to win 9 Olivier Awards – the most ever for one production.
In 2018, Friedman was awarded the Equity Services to Theatre Award at the 18th Annual WhatsOnStage Awards, and was featured in Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World. In July 2022, it was announced that Friedman would be developing a play with Stephen Daldry set in the same world as the TV series Stranger Things.




= TV and film producer

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In 2015, Sonia Friedman Productions co-produced two television dramas, the BAFTA Nominated The Dresser which aired on BBC Two and directly followed after SFP's partnership with Playground Entertainment on the six-part mini-series adaptation of Dame Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall, which also aired on BBC Two in January 2015 and won two BAFTA Television Awards in 2016. In 2020, Sonia Friedman Productions partnered with Angelica Films to create a re-interpretation of Ian Rickson's stage production of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya. The new film version of the production was shown in cinemas ahead of broadcast on the BBC. This made it the first UK stage production closed by the Coronavirus pandemic to have been filmed and produced for the screen. In 2021, Sonia Friedman produced J'Ouvert for BBC Four, a film version of the live theatre production at the Harold Pinter Theatre.




Honours


Friedman was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2016 Birthday Honours for services to theatre and Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2023 New Year Honours, also for services to theatre.




Personal life


She is the younger sister of director/actress/singer Maria Friedman, violinist Richard Friedman, and Dr Sarah Beecham. Friedman lives with her partner, a writer, in London.




Theatre credits






TV and film credits


Wolf Hall (2015)
The Dresser (2015)
King Lear (2018)
Uncle Vanya (2020)
J'Ouvert (2021)
Together (2021)




Awards






= Olivier Awards

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Stranger Things: The First Shadow, Best New Entertainment/Comedy Play, 2024
Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma!, Best Musical Revival, 2023
Leopoldstadt, Best New Play, 2020
Fiddler on the Roof, Best Musical Revival, 2020
The Inheritance, Best New Play, 2019
Summer and Smoke, Best Revival, 2019
The Ferryman, Best New Play, 2018
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Best New Play, 2017
Sunny Afternoon, Best New Musical, 2015
King Charles III, Best New Play, 2015
The Book of Mormon, Best New Musical, 2014
Chimerica, Best New Play, 2014
Ghosts, Best Revival, 2014
Merrily We Roll Along, Best Musical Revival, 2014
Legally Blonde, Best New Musical, 2011
The Mountaintop, Best New Play, 2010
La Cage Aux Folles, Best Musical Revival, 2009




= Tony Awards

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Merrily We Roll Along, Best Revival of a Musical, 2024
Stereophonic, Best Play, 2024
Leopoldstadt, Best Play, 2023
The Inheritance, Best Play, 2020-21
The Ferryman, Best Play, 2019
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Best Play, 2018
A View from the Bridge, Best Revival of a Play, 2016
The Humans, Best Play, 2016
A Raisin in the Sun, Best Revival of a Play, 2014
Death of a Salesman, Best Revival of a Play, 2012
The Book Of Mormon, Best Musical, 2011
La Cage Aux Folles, Best Revival of a Musical, 2010
The Norman Conquests, Best Revival of a Play, 2009
Boeing-Boeing, Best Revival of a Play, 2008




= Bafta Television Awards

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Drama Series, Together, 2022
Drama Series, Wolf Hall, 2016




= The Stage Awards

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Producer of the year, Sonia Friedman, 2019
Producer of the year, Sonia Friedman, 2017
Producer of the year, Sonia Friedman, 2016
Producer of the year, Sonia Friedman, 2015




= Evening Standard Awards

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Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma!, Best Musical, 2022
The Inheritance, Best Play, 2018
The Ferryman, Best Play, 2017
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Best Play, 2016
Jerusalem, Best Play, 2009
Home Place, Brian Friel, Best Play, 2005




= Drama Desk Awards

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The Inheritance, Outstanding Play, 2020
The Ferryman, Outstanding Play, 2019
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Outstanding New Broadway Play, 2018
Death of a Salesman, Outstanding Revival of a Play, 2012
The Book of Mormon, Outstanding Musical, 2011
La Cage aux Folles, Outstanding Revival of a Musical, 2010
A View From the Bridge, Outstanding Revival of a Play, 2010
The Norman Conquests, Outstanding Revival of a Play, 2009
Boeing-Boeing, Outstanding Revival of a Play, 2008




= Critics' Circle Awards

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Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma!, Best Musical, 2023
Patriots, Best New Play, 2023
The Inheritance, Best New Play, 2018
The Ferryman, Best New Play, 2017
Bend It Like Beckham, Best Musical, 2015
King Charles III, Best New Play, 2014
Chimerica, Best New Play, 2013
Merrily We Roll Along, Best Musical, 2012
Clybourne Park, Best New Play, 2011
Jerusalem, Best New Play, 2010
La Cage Aux Folles, Best Musical, 2009




= WhatsOnStage Awards

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Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma!, Best Musical Revival, 2023
The Inheritance, Best New Play, 2019
Sonia Friedman, Equity Services to Theatre Award, 2018
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Best West End Show, 2018
The Ferryman, Best New Play, 2018
Hamlet, Best Play Revival, 2018
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Best New Play, 2017
Funny Girl, Best Musical Revival, 2017
Hamlet, Best Play Revival, 2016
Shakespeare in Love, Best New Play, 2015
The Book of Mormon, Best New Musical, 2014
Twelfth Night, Best Shakespearean Production, 2013
Much Ado About Nothing, David Tennant and Catherine Tate reuniting on stage, Theatre Event of the Year, 2012
Much Ado About Nothing, Best Shakespearean Production, 2012
Legally Blonde, by Nell Benjamin, Lawrence O’Keefe & Heather Hach, Best New Musical, 2011
Jerusalem, by Jez Butterworth, Best New Play, 2010
Under The Blue Sky, by David Eldridge, Best New Play, 2009
Rock ‘n’ Roll, by Tom Stoppard, Best New Play, 2007
Up For Grabs, Madonna's West End debut, Theatre Event of the Year, 2003
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, Best Play Revival, 2002




= South Bank Sky Arts Awards

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Uncle Vanya, 2021
The Inheritance, 2019
The Jungle, 2018
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, 2017
King Charles III, 2015




= Outer Critics Circle Awards

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Stereophonic, Best Play, David Adjmi, 2024
Stereophonic, Outstanding New Broadway Play, David Adjmi, 2024
Leopoldstadt, Outstanding New Broadway Play, 2023
The Inheritance, Outstanding New Broadway Play, 2020
The Ferryman, Outstanding New Broadway Play, 2019
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Outstanding New Broadway Play, 2018




= New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards

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Stereophonic, Best Play, 2024
Merrily We Roll Along, Special Citation, 2024
The Ferryman, Best Play, 2019




= Drama League Awards

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The Inheritance, Outstanding Production of a Play, 2020
The Ferryman, Outstanding Production of a Broadway or Off-Broadway Play, 2019
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Outstanding Production of a Broadway or Off-Broadway Play, 2018




References






External links


Sonia Friedman Productions
Out of Joint Theatre
Gardner, Lyn (19 May 2006). "The Guardian profile: Sonia Friedman". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 April 2009.
Sonia Friedman at IMDb
"Sonia Friedman in London". The Guardian. 24 June 2006. Retrieved 15 April 2009.
Shoard, Catherine (31 August 2004). "Backstage controller". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 15 April 2009.
Olivier Awards

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