Larry Hirschhorn
A six-time Tony Award®–winning theatre producer with multiple credits on Broadway, Off‑Broadway, national tours, and London.
Larry was one of the lead producers of the multi-award-winning Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike by Christopher Durang. It starred Sigourney Weaver and David Hyde Pierce, and went on to win every major theatre award for Best Play in the 2013 season, including the Tony Award® and the Drama Desk Award. It was the most-produced play in America in 2014 and 2015.
More recently, he was a co-producer on Broadway of Liberation by Bess Wohl (winner of the 2026 Pulitzer Prize and the 2026 Tony Award® for Best Play). Other recent credits include Dead Outlaw (seven Tony Award® nominations, including Best Musical); The Last Five Years (starring Nick Jonas and Adrienne Warren); the award-winning international hit Operation Mincemeat; David Adjmi’s Stereophonic (2024 Tony Award® for Best Play and Drama Desk Award; also in London and on national tour); The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window (starring Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan); the long-running international hit Hadestown (2019 Tony Award® for Best Musical and Drama Desk Award; also in London); Harvey Fierstein’s Torch Song (Tony Award® nomination for Best Revival of a Play); Paula Vogel’s Indecent (Tony Award® nominee for Best Play); On Your Feet! (the Gloria Estefan musical); The Elephant Man, starring Bradley Cooper (which won the Drama Desk Award for Best Revival, 2015); and A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder (2014 Tony Award® and Drama Desk Award for Best Musical).
Other Broadway credits include Peter and the Starcatcher (five 2012 Tony Awards®, including Best Featured Actor in a Play); Gore Vidal’s The Best Man; Driving Miss Daisy (Broadway and London, with James Earl Jones and Vanessa Redgrave); The Addams Family (with Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth); Hair (Broadway, London, and national tour; winner of the 2009 Tony Award® for Best Revival of a Musical and the Drama Desk Award); The Seagull (with Kristin Scott Thomas); Passing Strange (Drama Desk Award for Best Musical); Butley (starring Nathan Lane); and Lisa Kron’s Well.
Earlier in his career he was the founder and artistic director of Off-Broadway’s Melting Pot Theatre. Highlights there include Cobb, which won the Drama Desk Award for Best Ensemble, and the New York premieres of Miss Evers’ Boys and Woody Sez, which has had eighty productions all around the world, most recently at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and in London.
Upcoming projects in development include a musical version of the 1993 MGM film Benny & Joon, which had its world premiere in fall 2017 at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego and its East Coast premiere at the Paper Mill Playhouse in May 2019. He is also working on Once Every Hundred Years, William Finn’s final musical, and The Goddess in My Building, a new original musical written by his old college friend Carol McCann. Larry was also a producer and executive producer of the animated short film A Cow in the Sky, which had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2023. It is currently being developed as a full-length feature film.
Larry graduated from Ithaca College in 1980 with a BFA in Acting and Directing, and was the commencement speaker at its 2023 graduation. He also has an MA in Educational Theatre from NYU. He lives in Manhattan with his wife, Melissa, with whom he has three children, Jessica, Joshua, and Benjamin, as well as their five-year-old yellow Lab, Luna.
