Tony, Emmy, BAFTA And
Olivier Award Winner
Alan Cumming
and
Olivier and BAFTA Award Winner
Shirley Henderson
Will Star in the US Premiere Of
A HISTORY OF PAPER
Book By Oliver Emanuel
Music By Gareth Williams
Lyrics By Oliver Emanuel and Gareth Williams
Directed By Andrew Panton
(New York, NY - November 5, 2026)— Producers Sonia Friedman Productions, Jerry Goehring and Pemberley Productions are pleased to announce that following its sold-out run in Scotland, the critically acclaimed musical A History of Paper, starring Tony, Emmy, BAFTA and Olivier Award winner Alan Cumming, and Olivier and BAFTA Award winner Shirley Henderson in her highly anticipated NYC debut, will make its US premiere this winter.
A co-production from Scotland’s Pitlochry Festival Theatre and Dundee Rep Theatre, A History of Paper will begin performances on Friday, February 12, 2027 Off-Broadway at the Shubert Organization’s Stage 42 (422 West 42nd Street). A History of Paper, which is directed by Dundee Rep Theatre’s award-winning Artistic Director Andrew Panton, will play a strictly limited engagement for 13 weeks only through Sunday, May 16, 2027. Tickets will go on sale on November 17, 2026 at Telecharge.com. Audiences are invited to sign up for more information at historyofpapermusical.com. Follow A History of Paper on social at @historyofpapermusical
A History of Paper started life as an original BBC Radio 4 play in 2017, written by Oliver Emanuel. Oliver, and composer Gareth Williams, subsequently adapted it as a work-in-progress at Dundee Rep Theatre in 2019 as part of Rep Stripped, the theatre’s festival championing new Scottish work and giving artists space to develop and share bold ideas with live audiences. The production went on to make its Edinburgh Festival Fringe debut at The Traverse Theatre in 2024, where it won the coveted Fringe First Award. Alan Cumming saw and fell in love with it and, with director Andrew Panton, arranged for it to be a part of his first season as Artistic Director at Pitlochry Festival Theatre.
The New York transfer marks a major international milestone for both Pitlochry Festival Theatre and Dundee Rep Theatre, with A History of Paper becoming the first production from either theatre to transfer Off-Broadway. It also reflects the growing international reach of theatre made in Scotland, following the success of No Love Songs, which originated at Dundee Rep Theatre before transferring to the US and Australia in 2025.
This funny and deeply moving two-character chamber musical charts a universal love story through the physical paper artifacts that define a relationship and a lifetime—from letters, menus and train tickets to shopping lists and postcards.
“I am so thrilled to bring A History of Paper from my home country of Scotland to my adopted home in New York City,” Alan Cumming commented. “This is one of these rare shows that transcends its own story and manages to touch an audience in a really visceral and beautiful way. And it utterly belongs in New York City. Since taking over as Artistic Director at Pitlochry Festival Theatre it has been my plan (and dream) to start a theatrical exchange channel between Manhattan and our theatre in the hills. This is the first show to do so and I couldn’t be happier to be doing it alongside Shirley, who I first worked with over forty years ago!”
“When Alan whispered backstage to me that we might be taking our show A History of Paper to New York, my heart skipped a beat,” Henderson said. “In that moment, I felt excited, a little scared but happy to be holding hands with Alan as we take this beautiful piece of writing with sweet music on the next part of its journey. I never imagined it was possible to have the opportunity to step onto the New York stage. I am glad it’s with my lovely friend Alan Cumming.”
“Creating this show with Alan, Shirley and our amazing creative team has been a dream,” said Andrew Panton. “Some stories ask us to lean a little closer. A History of Paper is one of them – the story of one relationship quietly becoming about all of us: the people who shape our lives, the memories we hold on to, and the ordinary moments we come to treasure most. The work I’ve seen in New York has long inspired me to make theatre, and to see work developed at Dundee Rep reach international audiences is a powerful reminder of why we invest in new work and the artists who create it. I couldn’t be more excited to bring our beautiful show to New York City audiences.”
Alan Cumming first dazzled New York with his Tony Award-winning performance as the Emcee in Roundabout Theatre Company’s production of Cabaret in 1998 and its return engagement in 2014. His other NYC credits include Broadway productions of Design for Living, The Threepenny Opera, and his acclaimed solo Macbeth, and the Off-Broadway production of Jeremy O. Harris’ “Daddy.” In London, his stage performances include Accidental Death of an Anarchist (Olivier Award), La Bête, Hamlet, Cabaret, Bent, The Bacchae, and Endgame. Film credits include GoldenEye, Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion, the Spy Kids trilogy, X2: XMen United, The Anniversary Party and the upcoming Avengers: Doomsday, among others. On television, his credits include “The Good Wife,” “Instinct,” and “Schmigadoon!” He is the three-time Emmy Award-winning host and master of ceremonies for NBC’s reality series, “The Traitors,” which recently launched its fifth season. Cumming took up the post of Artistic Director of Pitlochry Festival Theatre in January 2025.
A History of Paper serves as the long-awaited New York stage debut of Shirley Henderson. Her extensive London theatre credits include originating the role of Elizabeth in Girl from the North Country (The Old Vic/West End) for which she won the Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical, and The Winter's Tale (National Theatre). On film, she is widely recognized for her role as Moaning Myrtle in the Harry Potter films, and Jude in the Bridget Jones films, as well as Topsy-Turvy, Trainspotting, and Stan & Ollie, among others.
Oliver Emanuel, who died in 2023, was a highly esteemed playwright and radio dramatist, whose stage works included The 306 Trilogy (National Theatre of Scotland), Flight (Vox Motus), and Dragon. His radio plays were frequently broadcast on BBC Radio 4, where A History of Paper first originated as a radio drama in 2017. He founded the MLitt in Playwriting & Screenwriting at the University of St Andrews.
A composer, songwriter, and Chancellor’s Fellow at Edinburgh College of Art, Gareth Williams’ compositions span opera, music theatre, and song, regularly exploring overlooked community narratives and vocal vulnerability. He has created award-winning music for Scottish Opera, Tapestry Opera, National Theatre of Scotland, and the BBC Scottish Symphony.
Andrew Panton is the multi-award-winning Artistic Director of Dundee Rep Theatre. In addition to winning the Scottish Critics’ Best Director Award for A History of Paper, his recent credits include Alan Cumming and Forbes Masson’s The High Life, (co-produced with National Theatre of Scotland) and James Graham’s Make it Happen (co-produced with Edinburgh International Festival, National Theatre of Scotland, Neal Street and Playful Productions) and No Love Songs (co-produced with Goodspeed Musicals) He has directed multiple Scottish premieres at Dundee Rep including a critically acclaimed production of Tracy Letts’ Pulitzer Prize-Winning August: Osage County.
Pitlochry Festival Theatre, celebrated as Scotland's “Theatre in the Hills,” is the nation's only major rural producing theater. Set on the banks of the River Tummel in the spectacular landscape of Highland Perthshire, PFT is an internationally recognised cultural destination that welcomes over 100,000 visitors each year. The Theatre brings together outstanding Scottish talent, world-class artists and ambitious new work. Alan Cumming’s arrival as Artistic Director has already marked a bold new chapter for PFT. Highlights so far and still to come include Once, A History of Paper, starring Cumming and Shirley Henderson, My Fair Lady, the world premiere of Supernova, bringing together Cumming and Ewan McGregor, and the launch of Out in the Hills, a new festival celebrating LGBTQIA+ voices.
Dundee Rep & Scottish Dance Theatre - Rooted in Dundee. Reaching the World.
For nearly 90 years, DRSDT has brought people together through groundbreaking theatre, contemporary dance and creative experiences. The organisation is Scotland's leading producing theatre and Scotland's flagship contemporary dance company, creating ambitious, award-winning work that connects people in Dundee, across Scotland and around the world. From its home in Dundee, DRSDT creates and shares work that inspires people, develops artists and expands creative opportunity. Through performance, participation and learning, we believe the arts are essential to life. They bring people together, strengthen communities and help us imagine, learn and thrive.
The production features design by Ana Inés Jabares-Pita, lighting design by Bruno Poet, and sound design by Alexandra Faye Braithwaite. Musical Supervisor / Musical Director and Pianist is Gavin Whitworth.
Marketing for A History of Paper is by Situation Interactive. Social Media is by Sara Robillard. US Casting is by Stephanie Yankwitt & Company Casting. General management is by Pemberley Productions.
BIOGRAPHIES
Alan Cumming (He) began his professional career playing Malcolm in Michael Boyd’s production of Macbeth at the Tron, Glasgow in 1985. He worked extensively in Scottish theatre until 1988 when he made his London debut at the Royal Court in Conquest of the South Pole, for which he was nominated for his first Olivier Award. He won in 1991 for Accidental Death of an Anarchist at the Royal National Theatre. At the Donmar Warehouse in 1993 he played Hamlet back to back with the Emcee in Cabaret, which in 1998 transferred to Broadway and earned him his first Tony Award as well as every other theatre award that season, including being inducted into the Vanity Fair Hall of Fame. Since then, he has continued to work both in New York theatre and also extensively with the National Theatre of Scotland, most recently in The High Life musical, Burn - a dance theatre piece about our national bard, as Dionysus in The Bacchae and as nearly all the roles in Macbeth (which also transferred to Broadway). His last London appearance was opposite Daniel Radcliffe in Beckett’s Endgame. As a concert artist, he has performed in venues such at the Sydney Opera House, Carnegie Hall, the Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, the London Palladium and the SEC Armadillo in Glasgow (with Alan Cumming Is Not Acting His Age). His film work ranges from appearances in blockbuster franchises like James Bond, Spy Kids, X Men, Toy Story and the upcoming Avengers: Doomsday to Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut, The Anniversary Party (which he also wrote and directed), Titus opposite Anthony Hopkins and Jessica Lange, Battle of the Sexes with Emma Stone and most recently Glenrothan with Brian Cox and Shirley Henderson (whom he first worked with in the 1986 Scottish TV series Shadow of the Stone!). On television he got his start in Scotland in “Taggart” and “Take The High Road,” took to the skies in “The High Life” for BBC 2 (which he wrote with Forbes Masson) and in the US starred in “The Good Wife” (for which he was nominated for three Emmys and two Golden Globes) and appearances in “Sex and the City,” “Frasier,” “The Simpsons,” “The L Word” and “Schmigadoon.” Most recently he starred in Russell T Davies’ “Tip Toe” and is also the host of “The Traitors US,” for which he has won four Emmy Awards. He has written seven books including the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir, Not My Father’s Son, owns Club Cumming, a New York cabaret bar, and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He recently completed his first season of programmed work as Artistic Director of Pitlochry Festival Theatre. For more information visit alancumming.com and follow his adventures on Instagram: @alancummingreally.
Shirley Henderson (She). With a distinguished film career spanning more than two decades, Shirley is perhaps best known for her iconic performances as Moaning Myrtle in the Harry Potter franchise and as Bridget Jones’ chardonnay-loving confidante, Jude in the Bridget Jones films alongside Renée Zellweger. Her acclaimed turn opposite James McAvoy in Filth earned her a BIFA nomination for best supporting actress, and she received multiple awards for her performance in Juliet McKoen’s Frozen. In 2023, Shirley was honoured with a BAFTA Scotland Award for outstanding contribution to film and television. Shirley’s extensive film credits include collaborations with many celebrated filmmakers, such as Danny Boyle’s Trainspotting, Michael Winterbottom’s Wonderland and 24 Hour Party People, Mike Leigh’s Topsy-Turvy, Shane Meadows’ Once Upon a Time in the Midlands, Lone Scherfig’s Wilbur (Wants to Kill Himself), and Jon S. Baird’s Stan & Ollie. She delighted audiences worldwide as the fan-favourite character Babu Frik in Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker, and reunited for her eighth collaboration with Michael Winterbottom opposite Steve Coogan in Greed. On television, Shirley has starred in Sally Wainwright’s “Happy Valley” (BBC), won the Scottish BAFTA for best actress for her performance in Channel 4’s “Southcliffe,” and led “The Taming of the Shrew” opposite Rufus Sewell (BBC). She also headlined “The House Across the Street” (Channel 5), starred alongside Martin Compston in BBC’s “The Nest,” and appeared in Mackenzie Crook’s acclaimed remake of “Worzel Gummidge.” In 2023, she lent her voice to the Anzellans in Jon Favreau’s The Mandalorian (Disney+). In 2018, Shirley made a celebrated return to the stage, winning the Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her critically acclaimed performance in Conor McPherson’s Girl from the North Country. Shirley Henderson can currently be seen starring in Scott Frank’s Dept. Q for Netflix as well as in Kirk Jones’ feature film I Swear. She also recently reprised her role as Jude in Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy.
Oliver Emanuel (Book and Lyrics) was an internationally award-winning Scottish playwright. His body of work encompasses over 30 plays for both stage and radio. Theatre credits include The 306: Trilogy – Dawn, Day & Dusk (Perth Theatre/National Theatre of Scotland); Dragon (Vox Motus/ National Theatre of Scotland); The Monstrous Heart (Traverse Theatre/Stephen Joseph Theatre); Flight (Vox Motus); I Am Tiger (Imaginate/Perth Theatre); Storytelling (Oran Mor/Lemon Tree/Ayr Gaiety); Prom (Oran Mor/Traverse Theatre/Lemon Tree). Radio credits include: One Hundred and Fifty Days, Pale Fire, Lanny, The Tenderness of Boys, When The Pips Stop, The Truth About Hawaii, A History of Paper, Emile Zola: Blood Sex & Money, Close Approximation of You (BBC Radio 4). Awards include: Tinniswood Award 2026; Best Original Single Drama at the BBC Audio Drama Awards 2026; Outstanding Contribution Award at the BBC Radio Drama Awards 2024; Best Production for Children and Young People at the 2022 Critics’ Awards for Theatre in Scotland (CATS); Tinniswood Award 2019; Best Series at the BBC Audio Drama Awards 2019; Herald Angel 2017; Best Adaptation at the BBC Audio Drama Awards 2016; The People’s Choice Victor Award at IPAY 2015; Best Show for Children at the UK Theatre Awards in 2014. Oliver was Reader of Playwriting at the University of St Andrews where he created the MLitt in Playwriting & Screenwriting with Zinnie Harris. His plays are published by Oberon Books.
Gareth Williams (Music and Lyrics) is a composer based in Scotland and Reader in Music at the University of Edinburgh. His work has been performed by companies and ensembles including Scottish Opera, Tapestry Opera, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, National Theatre of Scotland, Bridge Theatre, Young People’s Theatre in Canada, Ulster Orchestra, Celtic Connections, and Chamber Music Scotland, and he has co-created opera with artists and writers including Admiral Fallow, Chris Stout, Bernard MacLaverty and Johnny McKnight. He is Creative Director of Breath Cycle at Scottish Opera, working with participants living with a range of respiratory conditions from Cystic Fibrosis to Long Covid. The project won a global Innovation Award at Classical Next in Berlin in 2025. His chamber opera Rocking Horse Winner premiered in Toronto in 2016, winning five Dora Mavor Moore Awards, and has since been widely remounted and produced across North America. He collaborated closely with Oliver Emanuel over twelve years, creating musical theatre with Red Note Ensemble (2012), The 306 Trilogy (2015–2018) for National Theatre of Scotland, and the multi-award-winning A History of Paper, which premiered at the Traverse Theatre in 2024, winning a Fringe First Award and Best Musical from Music Theatre Review. He regularly performs his ‘literary chamber pop’ collection Songs From The Last Page as singer and pianist, and released an album of the project in 2023. A new chamber opera, Those Who Loved, commissioned by Tapestry Opera, will premiere in Toronto in 2027.
Andrew Panton (Director) is the mutli-award-winning Artistic Director of Dundee Rep Theatre, working across theatre, music and television. His recent work includes A History of Paper, which won him the Critics’ Awards for Theatre in Scotland Award for Best Director, a Fringe First and Music Theatre Review’s Best Musical Award. His recent directing credits include James Graham’s Make It Happen (Dundee Rep, National Theatre of Scotland and Edinburgh International Festival), The High Life (Dundee Rep Theatre, National Theatre of Scotland, Capital Theatres and Aberdeen Performing Arts), No Love Songs (UK/US/Australian productions) and The Glass Menagerie (Dundee Rep/Royal Lyceum Edinburgh/Glasgow Citizens Theatre). At Dundee Rep, Andrew has directed the Scottish premieres of August: Osage County and The Children, alongside new commissions including Peter Arnott’s Tay Bridge and Noisemaker’s Oor Wullie: The Musical. His work elsewhere includes productions for the National Theatre of Scotland, Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh, Glasgow Citizens Theatre, Stephen Joseph Theatre, Royal & Derngate and Goodspeed Musicals. Andrew has also worked extensively in television, including The Voice and Children in Need for the BBC. He was a Creative Director for the opening ceremony of the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games and has collaborated with Susan Boyle on albums, television appearances and international tours. A former Artistic Director of Musical Theatre at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Andrew is now a Visiting Professor and Fellow. He lives in Dundee with his husband and their son.
Gavin Whitworth (Musical Supervisor, Music Director and Pianist) is a graduate of York University, and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Musical directing credits include: The Snow Queen, Hi, My Name Is Ben (Dundee Rep/Goodspeed); My Left /Right Foot (National Theatre of Scotland/Birds of Paradise); Oor Wullie, No Love Songs (Dundee Rep/Selladoor); But First This, The Witches of Eastwick (Watermill Theatre, Newbury); Beauty and the Beast, Hansel and Gretel (Citizens Theatre); Wasted Love, The Improvised Musical (Edinburgh Fringe); Room (Stratford East/National Theatre of Scotland); Glasgow Girls (RAW Materials).
Ana Inés Jabares-Pita (Designer) is an award-winning Spanish designer based in London working internationally across opera, performance and installation. She trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Theatre credits include: Kohlhaas (Brighton Festival/Spoleto Festival); The Great Gatsby (Uppsala Stadsteater); Rhinoceros (Almeida Theatre); The Fair Maid of the West and As You Like It (Royal Shakespeare Company); Olivier Award winner Pride & Prejudice (*sort of) (West End/Royal Lyceum/UK & World Tour); Burn (Set Design - National Theatre Scotland/The Joyce, NYC); The Grand Old Opera House Hotel (Traverse Theatre); The Lovely Bones (Birmingham Rep/UK Tour); Faustus, That Damned Woman (Headlong/Lyric Hammersmith); The Driver’s Seat (National Theatre Scotland); Wish List (Royal Exchange/Royal Court); LeLa & Co (Royal Court Theatre); The Echo Chamber (Young Vic Theatre); Idomeneus (Gate Theatre) which was selected to become part of the V&A archive. Opera and dance credits include: Uprising and The Wreckers (Glyndebourne); Tales of Love and Loss (Linbury, Royal Opera House); 1000 Airplanes on the Roof (Neuköllner Oper); Breaking The Waves (Theater St Gallen, Switzerland); In Flagrante (Scottish Opera); The Flying Dutchman (Opera Up Close/UK Tour); West Side Story Symphonic Dances (Phoenix Dance Theatre/Opera North); To See The Invisible (World premiere, Aldeburgh Festival).
Bruno Poet (Lighting Design). Theatre includes: Sinatra (Aldwych Theatre); One Day: The Musical (Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh); The Devil Wears Prada (West End/Plymouth); Miss Saigon (West End/Broadway/ UK Tour/International Tour); TINA: The Tina Turner Musical (Tony Award Nomination, West End/Broadway/International Tours); The Seagull (Barbican); Macbeth (West End/Donmar Warehouse), Waiting for Godot (West End); The Witches, Frankenstein, London Road (National Theatre); Richard II, Julius Caesar, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Bridge Theatre); Uncle Vanya (West End); From Here to Eternity (West End); Bad Cinderella (Broadway). Opera includes: The Hours (Met Opera); Salome (Houston Grand Opera); Don Giovanni (Royal Opera House/LA Opera/Houston Opera); Akhnaten (ENO/LA Opera/Met Opera); Trovatore (Monte Carlo/Madrid/Copenhagen/LA Opera); Oklahoma! (Grange Park Opera); Otello (Royal Opera House); Carmen (Bregenz); Alcina (Glyndebourne). Other credits include: 2026 Commonwealth Games Opening & Closing Ceremonies; 2026 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony; 49th, 50th, 51st, 52nd, 53rd and 54th UAE National Day;Alicia Keys: Keys to the Summer (US Arena Tour); Pet Shop Boys Dreamworld Tour; Sigur Rós (all world tours since 2012); Björk Cornucopia (International Tour); and Billie Eilish Live (Steve Jobs Theatre).
Alexandra Faye Braithwaite (Sound Design). Recent credits include: Summerfolk, Underdog: The Other Other Brontë (National Theatre); Punch (Broadway/Apollo Theatre/ Young Vic/Nottingham Playhouse); Hamlet (National Theatre/ BAM); Giant (Harold Pinter Theatre/Royal Court); Christmas Carol Goes Wrong (Apollo Theatre/Mischief Theatre/UK Tour); Abigail’s Party (Harold Pinter Theatre/UK Tour/Theatre Royal Stratford East); The Market Deeping Model Railway Club (Nottingham Playhouse); The Real Thing (Old Vic); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Atonement, Choir, Never Have I Ever, The Narcissist (Chichester Festival Theatre); Liberation, A Taste of Honey, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Wuthering Heights, Light Falls (Royal Exchange Theatre); A Streetcar Named Desire, Chariots of Fire, Anna Karenina, Operation Crucible, Chicken Soup (Sheffield Theatres); Sound of the Underground, Purple Snowflakes and Titty Wanks (Royal Court); Falkland Sound (Royal Shakespeare Company); The Good Person of Szechwan (Lyric Hammersmith/Sheffield Theatres); Bloody Elle (Lyric Theatre/Traverse Theatre/Royal Exchange); The Creakers (Southbank Centre/Theatre Royal Plymouth); Shining City, How Not To Drown, The Wonderful World of Dissocia (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Things of Dry Hours (Young Vic); Lost and Found (Factory International); The Da Vinci Code (Salisbury Playhouse/ Mercury Theatre); Groan Ups (Vaudeville Theatre/Mischief Theatre/UK Tour); The Cavalcaders (Druid); Good Luck, Studio (Mercury Theatre/ Mischief Theatre); Kes (Bolton Octagon); The Climbers, Tom’s Midnight Garden (Theatre By The Lake); A Pretty Shitty Love, A Christmas Carol (Theatre Clwyd); My Name Is Rachel Corrie (Al Madina Theatre, Beirut); Cougar, The Rolling Stone, Dealing with Clair (Orange Tree Theatre); Dublin Carol (Sherman Theatre); Hamlet, Talking Heads, Rudolph (Leeds Playhouse); The Audience, Juicy and Delicious (Nuffield Theatre); The Remains of Maisie Duggan (Abbey Theatre); Toast, Enough (Traverse Theatre); When I Am Queen (Almeida).
Sonia Friedman Productions (SFP) (Producer) is an international production company responsible for some of the most successful theatre productions around the world. Since it was established in 2002, SFP has developed, initiated and produced over 300 productions and has won 74 Laurence Olivier Awards, 62 Tony Awards, 3 BAFTAs and 382 major theatre awards worldwide, with its founder, Sonia Friedman CBE, being described by The New York Times in 2025 as “the most powerful producer working in theater” today and recognized as a Variety500 Honoree for seven consecutive years. At any one time, the company is actively developing, commissioning, and enabling more than 30 new theatrical projects worldwide. In 2018, Friedman was named on the TIME 100 list of the world’s most influential people. In 2019, she was awarded Producer of the Year at The Stage Awards for a record-breaking fourth time; in 2024 she was included in The Standard 100, celebrating London’s key power players; and in 2025 she was named one of Vogue’s 25 most influential women working today. Current productions include The Book of Mormon (West End); Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (West End, Broadway, The Netherlands, Tokyo and North American tour); Stranger Things: The First Shadow, a co-production with Netflix (West End, Broadway); PADDINGTON The Musical (West End); Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (West End); Rent (West End); The Cherry Orchard (West End); The Lives of Others (West End). Forthcoming productions include: My Fair Lady (Pitlochry Festival Theatre); John Proctor is the Villain (West End); The Popinjay Cavalier (West End) and PADDINGTON The Musical (Broadway, Sydney). In 2025, Sonia Friedman and Hugh Jackman, alongside director Ian Rickson, launched TOGETHER, a new company dedicated to creating live theatre that is intimate and accessible.
Jerry Goehring (Producer) is a Tony-nominated lead producer who has produced shows on Broadway, Off-Broadway, West End, Tokyo and more than 20 national tours and sit-downs in many cities, including Chicago, LA, Boston and Seattle. Credits include executive director/CEO of the Tony Award-winning National Theatre of the Deaf, and establishing the Actor’s Academy, a theatrical training school for professional deaf and hearing artists at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C. Jerry founded the Stuart Street Playhouse in Boston and co-founded, with his wife actor/writer Patty Carver, Connecticut Children’s Theatre, the acclaimed national touring company which has performed for over one million children from at-risk communities across the country. Mr. Goehring was executive director for Weston Woods Institute, the non-profit derivation of the world’s leading adaptor of award-winning children’s literature to film, Weston Woods Studios, a division of Scholastic, Inc. Jerry proudly runs the nationally ranked theatre program at Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT. sacredheart.edu. jerrygoehringproductions.com
Pemberley Productions (Producer and General Manager). Theatrical producers, GMs, tour enthusiasts – bringing international theatre to the US. Transparent, thoughtful, dynamic. People first. Highlights: Heathers (Off-Broadway, North American tour), The Woman in Black (McKittrick Hotel Off-Broadway, across the US); Emma Rice’s Wuthering Heights (US Tour); The Secret Garden (CTG); National Theatre’s An Inspector Calls (US Tour); The Last Ship (starring Sting, US Tour); Elizabeth McGovern’s Ava: The Secret Conversations (Off-Broadway, US & Canada); Baxter Theatre/Handspring Puppet’s Life & Times of Michael K (US Tour). More at www.pemberleyproductions.com.