Sharon Levy

Sharon Levy is the President of Dovetail Productions, founded in 1997 to develop and produce new work. Over more than two decades, she has worked in close collaboration with Chevalier and MacArthur Fellow, Lee Breuer, whose work has been lauded for expanding the boundaries of storytelling in the theatre. These works include The Gospel at Colonus, Mabou Mines DollHouse, La Divina Caricatura, and Porco Morto, among others, which have been performed at venues in New York and across the U.S., including The Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival, the Apollo Theater, St Ann’s Warehouse, the Ellen Stewart Theater/La MaMa, the Spoleto Festival USA and the Kennedy Center, and have toured worldwide including to the Edinburgh Festival, The Athens Festival, the Vienna Festival, the Israel Festival, and the Brisbane Festival, among others. Ms. Levy is editor for Getting Off: Lee Breuer on Performance, published by Theater Communications Group in 2019.

Since 2013 she has also worked as Executive Producer for Noche Flamenca, most notably on Antigona, a flamenco adaptation of the Sophocles classic, which premiered at the Meany Center in Seattle. After two sold-out runs in New York, Antigona toured to San Francisco, Los Angeles, Durham, Philadelphia, Vancouver and Abu Dhabi.

Since the early 2000s, Ms. Levy has worked with Encore Productions in Paris to produce Bagdad Café – The Musical; a 5-month Off-Broadway run and a U.S., Australian and Scandinavian tour of Baba Brinkman’s The Rap Guide to Evolution; Shalom Shanghai for the Shanghai International Arts Festival; and a 12-hour music marathon for Meet The Composer.

Earlier work includes the jazz opera Lulu Noire composed by Jon Faddis; the Tribute to King Oliver for the 1996 Olympics; Jon Faddis and his sextet presenting the musical legacy of Dizzy Gillespie; Michael West Together At Last at Theater for the New City; a tour of England, Scotland and Wales with the British Theatre of the Deaf; a collaboration with Australian Director Nigel Triffit to create Yellow Brick Roadshows and casting for Robert Altman’s HBO series Tanner 88. As Producing Director at The Theatrical Outfit in Atlanta throughout the 1980s, she produced more than 40 plays and musicals, including new works from Eric Overmeyer, William Mastrosimone and Dennis McIntyre.

Born in Adelaide, Australia, Ms. Levy has a degree in theatre from the Flinders University of South Australia. She has twice received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts.