Tom Kirdahy

He recently produced the musical, Hadestown, which opened on Broadway in 2019 and subsequently won 8 Tony Awards, including the Tony Award for Best Musical. He is the producer of the Olivier Award-winning play, The Inheritance, on Broadway and a new off-Broadway revival of Little Shop of Horrors, both set to open in the fall of 2019. He also recently produced the Broadway revival of Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, starring Audra McDonald and Michael Shannon.

In the West End, he produced The Inheritance at the Noël Coward Theatre which opened in 2018 and ran until January 19, 2019. The two-part play by Matthew Lopez had a sold-out run at the Young Vic and Dominic Cavendish of The Telegraph called it "the most important American play of the century". The play was directed by Stephen Daldry and featured John Benjamin Hickey and Vanessa Redgrave. The production won 4 Olivier Awards for Best New Play, Best Direction, Best Actor, and Best Lighting Design. He also produced, alongside Sonia Friedman and Hunter Arnold, The Jungle by Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson and directed by Stephen Daldry and Justin Martin. After a sold-out run at the Young Vic, the production began previews on June 16, 2018 at the Playhouse Theatre in the West End and ran until November 3, 2018. His other productions in the West End includes the 2012 revival of Terrence McNally's Master Class, starring Tyne Daly as Maria Callas, and Edward Albee's The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? starring Damian Lewis and Sophie Okonedo and directed by Ian Rickson in 2017.

In 2019, his newest musical, Hadestown, opened on Broadway at the Walter Kerr Theatre where the New York Times described it as "Sumptuous. Hypnotic. Gorgeous," and the Wall Street Journal called it "the best new musical of the season." The musical was nominated for 14 Tony Nominations for the Tony Awards on June 9, 2019, the most nominations for any production, including Best Musical. The production is directed by Rachel Chavkin with music, lyrics, and book by Anaïs Mitchell.

He is also producing the newest revival of Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune by Terrence McNally starring six-time Tony winning actress Audra McDonald and two-time Oscar nominated actor Michael Shannon. Opening on May 30, 2019 at the Broadhurst Theatre, the new production is directed by Arin Arbus and is a celebration of McNally's 80th birthday, who McDonald called "one of our great American playwrights." The production has a limited run until August 25, 2019.

In 2016, Kirdahy produced the musical, Anastasia, on Broadway, after it set box office records in a run at Hartford Stage. The creative team included Terrence McNally (Book), Stephen Flaherty (Music), Lynn Ahrens (Music), and is directed by Tony Award-winner Darko Tresnjak. The musical ran at the Broadhurst Theatre on Broadway from March 23, 2017 to March 31, 2019. The U.S. national tour launched in the fall of 2018. There are also plans for productions in Europe, Asia, the United Kingdom, Australia and South America. There are currently productions in Stuttgart, Germany, and Madrid, Spain, with other openings being planned for the Netherlands, Spain, Russia, Korea, Japan, Mexico, and China.

Kirdahy produced the off-Broadway show White Rabbit Red Rabbit by Nassim Soleimanpour in 2016, which ran for 42 weeks at the Westside Theatre – "a notable achievement on an economically challenging Off-Broadway landscape", according to Variety. Each performance, the actor was handed the script in front of the audience. They did not have access to the text until that moment and then performed it live with a script in hand. A portion of the play's profits were donated to PEN International, an association of writers working to promote literature and defend freedom of expression around the world. The idea of a new weekly guest star attracted a rotating cast of performers including Whoopi Goldberg, Nathan Lane, Martin Short, Darren Criss, Alan Cumming, Bobby Cannavale, Billy Porter, Cynthia Nixon, Tony Danza, Brian Stokes Mitchell, and many more.

In 2014, he would go on to produce It's Only a Play, a satire of an opening night on Broadway. The cast included Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick, Megan Mullally, Rupert Grint, Stockard Channing, F. Murray Abraham, and Micah Stock. It was directed by three-time Tony Award winner Jack O'Brien. The production broke box office records at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre where it was initially scheduled for an 18-week run. The production transferred to the Bernard Jacobs Theatre and was extended to June 7, 2015. The production would eventually star actors Martin Short, Katie Finneran, Maulik Pancholy, and T. R. Knight.

He serves as Chair of The Broadway League Government Relations Committee and is a founding director of Berwin Lee London New York Playwrights, Inc. He was named the Broadway Global Producer of the Year in 2014, and received the Commercial Theater Institute's Robert Whitehead Award for Outstanding Achievement in Commercial Theater Producing in 2019.

In 2014, he produced Terrence McNally's play Mothers and Sons starring Tyne Daly, which was McNally's 20th Broadway production. The New York Times described the Tony nominated play as "an ambitious attempt to dramatize the head-spinning changes in Gay America", and "a resonant elegy for a ravaged generation". It marked the first time a legally wed gay couple was seen on a Broadway stage.

In 2007 he produced Deuce by Terrence McNally on Broadway starring Marian Seldes and Angela Lansbury. It was Lansbury's return to Broadway after more than twenty years. Kirdahy went on to produce the Tony-nominated revivals of Ragtime (2009) and the revival of Master Class in the West End starring Tyne Daly (2011).

Kirdahy was married to Terrence McNally, an Emmy and four-time Tony Award-winner, following a civil ceremony in Vermont on December 20, 2003 until McNally's death from COVID-19 on March 24, 2020. They subsequently married in Washington, D.C. on April 6, 2010. In celebration of the Supreme Court's decision to legalize same-sex marriage in all 50 states, they renewed their vows at New York City Hall with Mayor Bill de Blasio, Kirdahy's college roommate, officiating on June 26, 2015.

Thomas Joseph Kirdahy (born June 18, 1963) is a Tony and Olivier Award-winning theatre producer on Broadway and in the West End as well as a lawyer.

Kirdahy was born in Hauppauge, New York, in 1963 and is the son of Paul E. Kirdahy and Joan Kirdahy (née McGunnigle). Two-time Tony Award-winner Donna Murphy grew up across the street from him. He attended New York University and graduated as valedictorian of his class in 1985 with a BA in politics and dramatic literature. "He served as a student senator and one of the first openly gay chairs of the University Committee on Student Life (UCSL) and the Student Senators Council (SSC)." He then went on to NYU School of Law in the hopes of being an entertainment lawyer.