Robert Whitehead Award

In the last two seasons on Broadway, Stuart Thompson has been producer of A View from the Bridge, Exit the King, and God of Carnage, which won the 2009 Tony Award for Best Play.

Thompson began his producing career on Broadway with David Mamet's The Old Neighborhood in 1997 and went on to co-produce The Chairs, which received a nomination for the 1998 Tony Award and Drama Desk Award for Best Revival of a Play and Not About Nightingales, which was nominated for the 1999 Tony Award and Drama Desk Award for Best Play. He subsequently produced The Tale of the Allergist's Wife, The Play What I Wrote, The Retreat from Moscow, Proof, On Golden Pond and Deuce. Off-Broadway, he has produced Neil LaBute's The Shape of Things and Adam Rapp's Red Light Winter.

Stuart Thompson is an expatriate Australian who moved to New York in the early 1980’s, initially as a graduate student at NYU. Robert Whitehead was his mentor, as was Lewis Allen. They hired him as general manager for their production in 1989 of A Few Good Men by Aaron Sorkin. Since then, Stuart Thompson’s general management company has been responsible for over fifty Broadway, Off-Broadway and National Touring productions, including Tru, Blood Brothers, A Doll’s House, Take Me Out, Art, An Ideal Husband, Faith Healer, Caroline, or Change, Three Days of Rain, Boeing-Boeing, Shrek The Musical, You’re Welcome America, The Seagull. In addition, Thompson also general managed five of the ten longest running Broadway plays of the last 20 years including: Doubt, Proof, Art, Master Class and The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife. He was the general manager for five plays by David Hare: The Blue Room, Amy’s View, The Judas Kiss, Skylight, The Vertical Hour and also The Year of Magical Thinking, directed by David Hare. This season, he is represented as general manager for All About Me, Next Fall, Lend Me a Tenor and Fences.