Douglas Denoff
Douglas Denoff (born July 14, 1957) is an American theatre producer who specializes in Broadway musicals. He won the Tony Award for Best Play in 2024 for Stereophonic and received a Drama Desk Award in 2008 for The 39 Steps.
Beyond theater, Denoff started and ran Dencom Systems, Inc. and Fibernet, Inc., businesses that provided telephone interconnect and long-distance services. He began in entertainment in 1977 as an assistant to the producers of Hawaii Five-O, later becoming associate producer overseeing post-production, and in 1980 was the line producer for the ABC TV film A Time for Miracles. In 2003 he downsized his companies and moved back to New York City.
Denoff has been nominated for many Tony Awards over the years, including The 39 Steps (2008), Nice Work If You Can Get It (2012), Fiddler on the Roof (2016), John Leguizamo’s Latin History for Morons (2017–2018), Pretty Woman (2018), Torch Song (2019), American Son (2019), Slave Play (2019), Take Me Out (2022), and Stereophonic (2024), which won Best Play. He has also co-produced other works such as John Proctor is the Villain and Real Women Have Curves: The Musical.
Denoff is a member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, The Broadway League, the Broadway Producers Alliance, and The Recording Academy. He is the son of television writer-producer Sam Denoff and Bernice Levey Denoff. He had a sister who died in 2022, and two half-siblings from his father’s second marriage to dancer Sharon Shore. He lives in New York City and Bridgehampton.
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