Carole Shorenstein Hays

Carole Shorenstein Hays (born September 15, 1948 as Carole J. Shorenstein) is a Tony Award-winning American theatrical producer.

Early life and family Shorenstein Hays was one of three children born to real estate developer Walter Shorenstein and Phyllis Finley. Her father was born Jewish and her mother converted to Judaism. She had two siblings: CBS producer Joan Shorenstein (who died of cancer in 1985) and real estate investor Douglas W. Shorenstein (who died of cancer in 2015), the former chairman of the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (his term ran from 2011 to 2014). She lives in Sea Cliff, San Francisco, California with her husband Jeff Hays. They have two children, Wally and Gracie. and established herself as a respected producer of critically acclaimed and financially successful works. She owned the Curran Theatre from 2012 unitl 2025 when it was sold to the San Francisco Giants. She continues to serve as President of SHN, a theatrical production company in San Francisco that operates from the Curran Theater. Several of the plays she produced have received Tony Awards, including a revival of Fences in 2010 .

She has produced many award-winning Broadway plays. In addition to her Broadway endeavors, she was the President of SHN (Theatres), a theatrical producing company in San Francisco. She gave up her stake in SHN in 2019 and the company changed its name to BroadwaySF. She is the only Broadway producer to win the Tony Awards as producer for two different productions of the same play—August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize–winning Fences, winning Best Play for the original production in 1987 starring James Earl Jones, and Best Revival for the 2010 run starring Denzel Washington. She served as lead producer of the Broadway production of John Patrick Shanley's Doubt, which won the 2005 Tony Award for Best Play and The Pulitzer Prize. Carole also co-produced the Broadway production of Julius Caesar starring Denzel Washington. She has produced these additional Tony Award-winning plays on Broadway: Richard Greenberg's Take Me Out, Edward Albee's The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia, and Pulitzer Prize winner Proof by David Auburn. Other Broadway productions include Tony Kushner's Caroline, or Change, Suzan-Lori Parks's 2002 Pulitzer Prize-winning Topdog/Underdog, Charles Busch's The Tale of the Allergist's Wife, Patrick Marber's Closer, David Mamet's The Old Neighborhood, the Royal Court/Théâtre de Complicité production of Eugène Ionesco's The Chairs, and the RSC production of A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Productions Play Location Premiere Finale The Grand Tour Palace Theatre January 11, 1979 March 4, 1979 Woman of the Year Palace Theatre March 29, 1981 March 13, 1983 Can-Can Minskoff Theatre April 30, 1981 May 3, 1981 Oliver! Mark Hellinger Theatre April 29, 1984 May 13, 1984 Fences 46th Street Theatre March 26, 1987 June 26, 1988 A Midsummer Night's Dream Lunt-Fontanne Theatre March 31, 1996 May 26, 1996 The Old Neighborhood Booth Theatre November 19, 1997 May 10, 1998 The Chairs John Golden Theatre April 1, 1998 June 13, 1998 Not About Nightingales Circle in the Square Theatre February 25, 1999 June 13, 1999 Closer Music Box Theatre March 25, 1999 August 22, 1999 Proof Walter Kerr Theatre October 24, 2000 January 5, 2003 The Tale of the Allergist's Wife Ethel Barrymore Theatre November 2, 2000 September 15, 2002 The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? John Golden Theatre March 10, 2002 December 15, 2002 Topdog/Underdog Ambassador Theatre April 7, 2002 August 11, 2002 Take Me Out Walter Kerr Theatre February 27, 2003 January 4, 2004 Caroline, or Change Eugene O'Neill Theatre May 2, 2004 August 29, 2004 Gem of the Ocean Walter Kerr Theatre December 6, 2004 February 6, 2005 Doubt Walter Kerr Theatre March 31, 2005 July 2, 2006 Julius Caesar Belasco Theatre April 3, 2005 June 12, 2005 Well Longacre Theatre March 30, 2006 May 14, 2006