Harriet Leve

Harriet Newman Leve is an American theater and movie producer. She is best known for her work with Broadway shows, including Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2014), An American in Paris (2019), and Life of Pi (2023). She was also the executive producer of the films A Call to Spy (2019) and Radium Girls (2018). Plays that she co-produced on Broadway have received Drama Desk Awards, Drama League Awards, Olivier Awards, Outer Critics Circle Awards, and four Tony Awards.

Early life Leve is a graduate of the Indiana University Bloomington.

Career Leve began producing plays in Los Angeles in from 1984 to 1995.

Leve's other Broadway productions include Of Mice and Men starring James Franco and Chris O'Dowd, Ann based on the life of former Texas Governor, Ann Richards, written and performed by Holland Taylor, the George Gershwin musical Nice Work If You Can Get It starring Matthew Broderick and Kelli O'Hara, the hit comedy One Man, Two Guvnors starring James Corden, the Tony Award-winning production of War Horse at Lincoln Center, the Tony Award-winning productions of Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps, and the Tony Award-winning production of Alan Ayckbourn's The Norman Conquests.

With Raise the Roof, Leve co-produced The Mountaintop starring Samuel L. Jackson, Burn the Floor on Broadway and the National Tour, Tracy Letts's Superior Donuts at the Music Box Theater on Broadway, Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music starring Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury, and the three-time Tony Award-winning production of La Cage Aux Folles.

Other productions include the Tony-nominated Broadway production of Martin McDonagh's The Lieutenant of Inishmore, the Broadway and national tour productions of Eve Ensler's The Good Body, August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom; the Tony-nominated production of Arthur Miller's The Crucible, Hedda Gabler, the Tony-nominated production of The Diary of Anne Frank, Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992, and the Olivier Award-winning production of Kat and the Kings.

She co-produced the world premiere musical Beautiful: The Carole King Musical which opened on January 12, 2014. She co-produced the Broadway premiere of Hedwig and the Angry Inch at the Belasco Theatre with Raise the Roof; Hedwig opened on April 22, 2014. Leve co-produced the world premiere of An American in Paris, based on the Oscar-winning film of the same name. An American in Paris debuted at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris on December 10, 2014, before transferring to Broadway.

Leve most recently co-produced the musical Redwood, which ran on Broadway from February 13, 2025 to May 18, 2025 and the play Life of Pi, which ran on Broadway from March 30, 2023 to July 23, 2023.

Awards 1994 Drama Desk Award Unique Theater Experience – Harriet Newman Leve for Stomp

A Call to Spy (2019), executive producter

Radium Girls (2018), executive producer A Call to Spy (2019), executive producer

Selected productions

Broadway

Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 (Original Play, Solo), April 17, 1994 – June 19, 1994 The Diary of Anne Frank (Revival Play), December 4, 1997 – June 14, 1998 The Norman Conquests: Living Together (Revival Play), April 25, 2009 – July 26, 2009 Burn the Floor (Dance), August 2, 2009 – January 10, 2010 The 39 Steps (Original Play), March 25, 2010 – January 16, 2011 Stomp (Original Instrumental), February 27, 1994 – January 8, 2023 Bunny Bunny (Original Play), March 23, 1997 – May 25, 1997 Communicating Doors (Original Play, Drama), August 20, 1998 – January 3, 1999 Necessary Targets (Original Play), February 28, 2002 – April 21, 2002 Shockheaded Peter (Original, Musical, Comedy), February 22, 2005 – May 29, 2005 Family Secrets (Original Play), March 8, 2006 – April 9, 2006

The Beebo Brinker Chronicles (Original Play), February 19, 2008 – April 29, 2008 National Tours

The 39 Steps (Original Play), August 2009–June 2010 Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (Original Musical), September 2019–May 2023 Ain't Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations (Original Musical), December 2021–2024 Los Angeles

Isn't It Romantic (Original Play), October 18, 1984 – September 1, 1985 The Normal Heart (Original Play), April 21, 1985 – July 7, 1985 Curse of the Starving Class (Revival Play), July 20, 1985 – February 16, 1986 Excess Baggage (Original Play), 1988 Telegrams from Heaven (Original Play), 1992 Why We Have a Body (Original Play), 1995

Publications

"You Never Forget Your First Time" in The Commercial Theater Institute: Guide to Producing Plays and Musicals. Frederic B. Vogel and Ben Hodges, editors. New York: Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, 2006.