1. Thomas Joseph Kirdahy was born on June 18,1963 and is an American Tony and Olivier Award-winning theatrical producer, film producer, lawyer, and activist.
16 Facts About Tom Kirdahy
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Tom Kirdahy produced the New York Times Critic's Pick Here We Are, the final musical from Stephen Sondheim.
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Tom Kirdahy has received additional Tony nominations for Broadway productions of Mothers and Sons, After Midnight, Ragtime, and Master Class.
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Tom Kirdahy attended New York University and graduated as valedictorian of his class in 1985 with a BA in politics and dramatic literature.
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Tom Kirdahy then went on to NYU School of Law in the hopes of being an entertainment lawyer.
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Tom Kirdahy was the co-Chair of the East End Gay Organization which would eventually lead him to meet his future husband, playwright, Terrence McNally, as well as LGBT figures like Edith Windsor, the plaintiff in the landmark Supreme Court case that led to the legalization of same-sex marriage.
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Tom Kirdahy always maintained a strong passion and love for the theatre, even while pursuing a career as an activist and lawyer.
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Tom Kirdahy went on to produce the Tony-nominated revival of Ragtime and the revival of Master Class in the West End starring Tyne Daly.
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In 2014, Tom Kirdahy would go on to produce It's Only a Play, a satire of an opening night on Broadway.
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Tom Kirdahy followed up It's Only a Play with a production of The Visit, a musical with a book by Terrence McNally, music by John Kander, and lyrics by Fred Ebb.
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The musical was fifteen years in the making, but the production seen on Broadway was the result of a new team assembled by Tom Kirdahy, which included Chita Rivera, Roger Rees, and directed by John Doyle, who Tom Kirdahy stopped on an airplane in order to get the script read by him.
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In 2016, Tom Kirdahy produced the musical, Anastasia, on Broadway, after it set box office records in a run at Hartford Stage.
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Tom Kirdahy produced The Jungle by Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson and directed by Stephen Daldry and Justin Martin.
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Tom Kirdahy produced the first Broadway revival of August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Piano Lesson in 2022.
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In 2020, Tom Kirdahy was the recipient of the Miss Lilly Award, a prize in recognition of his advocacy for women in a male-dominated industry.
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Tom Kirdahy was married to legendary American playwright Terrence McNally following a civil ceremony in Vermont on December 20,2003, until McNally's death from COVID-19 on March 24,2020.