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Jeffrey Seller<br />
Producer<br />
Jeffrey Seller is the winner<br />
of four Tony Awards for Best<br />
Musical: <strong>Hamilton</strong> (2016),<br />
Rent (1996), both of which<br />
won the Pulitzer Prize for<br />
Drama; Avenue Q (2004); and<br />
In the Heights (2008). Jeffrey also produced De La<br />
Guarda (1998), Andrew Lippa’s The Wild Party<br />
(2000), Baz Luhrmann’s direction of Puccini’s<br />
La Bohème (2002), High Fidelity (2006), the 2009<br />
Revival of West Side Story and The Last Ship<br />
(2014). Jeffrey is currently executive producer of<br />
the new NBC Drama Rise, which premieres in<br />
March, 2018. Jeffrey graduated from The<br />
University of Michigan in 1986.<br />
Sander Jacobs<br />
Producer<br />
Sander Jacobs received the<br />
Tony Award for Best Musical<br />
for <strong>Hamilton</strong> (Pulitzer Prize<br />
winner) and In the Heights.<br />
Mr Jacobs has served as a<br />
co-producer/investor for<br />
numerous Broadway, national and international<br />
productions. Les Misérables, The Phantom of the<br />
Opera, Grand Hotel, Follies, West Side Story, Bengal<br />
Tiger and The Last Ship are among his many<br />
investments. His career began with a multiproduct<br />
fashion manufacturing and distributing<br />
company, which expanded into ventures in the<br />
cosmetics and real estate industries.<br />
Jill Furman<br />
Producer<br />
Jill Furman received the<br />
Tony Award for Best Musical<br />
for <strong>Hamilton</strong> (2016) and In<br />
the Heights (2008). Other<br />
Broadway: Rodgers +<br />
Hammerstein’s Cinderella,<br />
The Heiress, Seminar, West Side Story, The Drowsy<br />
Chaperone, Sly Fox and Fortune’s Fool.<br />
Off-Broadway: On the Line and Adult<br />
Entertainment. Jill executive produced the Pivot<br />
television series Freestyle Love Supreme and also<br />
produces the live version of the show. In 2011, Jill<br />
received the Robert Whitehead Award for<br />
Outstanding Achievement in Commercial Theatre<br />
Producing. Jill is on the Board of Directors of the<br />
Lung Cancer Research Foundation, and is a<br />
member of the President’s Advisory Council for<br />
the Arts at Brown University, the Spence School<br />
Alumnae Board and The National Board of Review<br />
of Motion Pictures.<br />
The P ublic Theater<br />
Producer<br />
The world-renowned Public Theater in New York<br />
produces theatre of, by, and for the people. It first<br />
opened its doors in 1967 with the groundbreaking<br />
musical Hair, followed by A Chorus Line eight<br />
years later. <strong>Hamilton</strong> premiered on the same stage<br />
in January 2015 and played a sold-out run prior to<br />
transferring to Broadway and winning the Tony<br />
Award for Best Musical. The Public has a proud<br />
legacy of game-changing plays and musicals that<br />
include Fun Home, Pirates of Penzance, Sticks and<br />
Bones, Runaways, For Colored Girls, The Normal Heart,<br />
Eclipsed and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Sweat.<br />
Founded by Joseph Papp, The Public is a civicallyengaged<br />
theatre that believes theatre is a force for<br />
change, creating dialogue about some of the most<br />
important social issues of our time. The wide range<br />
of programming includes new work at its flagship<br />
home in the East Village as well as on Broadway,<br />
national and international productions, and the<br />
iconic free Shakespeare in the Park at the Delacorte<br />
Theater in Central Park. Recipient of 59 Tonys, 169<br />
Obies, 53 Drama Desk Awards, 54 Lortel Awards,<br />
32 OCC Awards and six Pulitzer Prizes.<br />
publictheater.org<br />
Cameron Mackintosh<br />
Producer<br />
Cameron has produced the<br />
three longest-running musicals<br />
of all time: Les Misérables, The<br />
Phantom of the Opera and Cats.<br />
His co-production with Disney<br />
of Mary Poppins continues to<br />
break records and disperse her magic globally. His<br />
acclaimed new production of Miss Saigon is now<br />
playing a UK national tour as well as on Broadway<br />
and in North America.<br />
Cameron also enjoys producing new versions of<br />
such classics as Oliver!, My Fair Lady, Oklahoma!,<br />
Carousel, Follies and most recently the reinvented<br />
Half A Sixpence. Original musicals he has produced<br />
include Little Shop of Horrors, Side By Side By<br />
Sondheim, Tomfoolery, Martin Guerre, Betty Blue<br />
Eyes and The Witches of Eastwick.<br />
In 2013, in conjunction with Working Title Films<br />
and Universal, Cameron produced the Oscar,<br />
Golden Globe and BAFTA award-winning film<br />
of Les Misérables.<br />
Cameron owns eight historic theatres in London’s<br />
West End, all of which have undergone spectacular<br />
refurbishment. Music Theatre International, the<br />
world’s largest representative of secondary rights of<br />
many of the greatest musicals ever written, is now<br />
one of Cameron’s companies.<br />
He was knighted in the 1996 New Year’s Honours<br />
for his services to British theatre and is the first<br />
British producer to be elected to Broadway’s<br />
Theatre Hall of Fame.