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Richard Winkler

Richard Winkler (Producer) is a seven-time Tony Award-winning and five-time Olivier Award-winning Broadway and West End producer, following a global 35-year career as a lighting designer for theatre and opera.

He is currently represented on Broadway by the international success Come From Away (2017 Tony nom., 2019 Olivier Award). Previous Broadway productions include: The Lehman Trilogy (2021 Tony Award, 2019 Olivier nom.) Ain’t Too Proud (2019 Tony nom.), Thoughts of a Colored Man (2020 Tony nom.), Diana: A True Musical Story, The Inheritance (2019 Olivier Award, 2020 Tony Award), Betrayal (Tom Hiddleston), The Ferryman (2019 Tony Award), Be More Chill, 1984, Sunday in the Park With George (Jake Gyllenhaal), Sweat (2017 Pulitzer Prize, 2017 Tony nom.), King Charles III (2016 Tony nom.), Something Rotten! (2015 Tony nom.), Hand to God (2015 Tony nom.), Disgraced (2013 Pulitzer Prize, 2013 Tony nom.), Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike (2013 Tony Award), Memphis: The Musical (2010 Tony Award), La Cage Aux Folles (2010 Tony Award), La Bête (Mark Rylance), A Little Night Music (2009 Tony nom.),  and The Norman Conquests (2009 Tony Award).

Currently represented on the West End with Come From Away (2019 Olivier Award, 2017 Tony nom.) and Magic Mike; Live. Previous West End productions include Tom Stoppard’s Leopoldstadt (2020 Olivier Award), Cinderella, The Inheritance (2019 Olivier Award, 2020 Tony Award), Home I’m Darling (2019 Olivier Award), The Lehman Trilogy (2021 Tony Award, 2019 Olivier nom.), Nine Night, Dreamgirls (2017 Olivier nom.), Memphis (2015 Olivier nom.), Long Day’s Journey Into Night (2012 Olivier Award), The Children's Hour (Keira Knightley), and Betrayal (Kristen Scott-Thomas).

​Off-Broadway in 2016, 
Richard produced the two-person gem of a play I & You by Lauren Gunderson, and the critically acclaimed Turn Me Loose (starring Joe Morton), about the life of comic genius Dick Gregory. His National Tours include: Come From Away, Fiddler on the Roof, Hamilton, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder, Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella, The 39 Steps, and Memphis: The Musical. 

Richard has also worked at Dartmouth College as an adviser to the theatre department assisting with faculty development and conducting graduate student classes and mentorships. He has also made presentations on “the ins and outs” of Broadway Theatre to various investor groups. 
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