Jeffrey Seller

Jeffrey Seller is an American theatrical producer. He is the winner of three Tony Awards for Best Musical: Rent (1996), which also won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama; Avenue Q (2004); and In the Heights (2008). Jeffrey has also produced and/or developed De La Guarda (1998), Andrew Lippa’s The Wild Party (2000), Baz Luhrmann's production of Puccini’s La Bohème (2002) and High Fidelity (2006), title of show (2008), and West Side Story (2009). He was also an executive producer of Rent (2005). Jeffrey is a graduate of the University of Michigan.^[1] He also produced The Last Ship, which was on Broadway briefly 2013-2014, and is producing Hamilton, which will move to Broadway in July 2015.

Biography

After graduating from the University of Michigan in 1986, Jeffrey moved to New York City where he worked, over the next ten years, as a publicist, booking agent and producer. With business partner Kevin McCollum he produced Rent (1996), for which he won the Tony Award for Best Musical; De La Guarda (1998); Baz Luhrmann's production of Puccini's La Bohème (2002); and most recently Avenue Q, for which he again won the Tony Award for Best Musical.^[2]

References

1. ↑ http://www.playbill.com/celebritybuzz/whoswho/biography/12722
2. ↑ http://americantheatrewing.org/biography/detail/jeffrey_seller