Gender
Female
Born
Jun 21, 1939
Producer
Also Known As
Willette M. Klausner
Willette Murphy Klausner
Relations
Wife of
Manny Klausner (c. 1969 - 2025) his death
See Also
860 (Oct 21, 2026 - Jan 03, 2027)
Play, Original
Paranormal Activity (Aug 25, 2026 - Feb 28, 2027)
Play, Original
Celebrity Autobiography (May 18, 2026 - Jun 21, 2026)
Special, Return Engagement
The Lost Boys (Apr 26, 2026 - Present)
Musical, Original
Joe Turner's Come and Gone (Apr 25, 2026 - Jul 26, 2026)
Play, Revival
Schmigadoon! (Apr 20, 2026 - Apr 04, 2027)
Musical, Original
Titaníque (Apr 12, 2026 - Sep 20, 2026)
Musical, Original
CATS: The Jellicle Ball (Apr 07, 2026 - Aug 08, 2026)
Musical, Revival
Dog Day Afternoon (Mar 30, 2026 - Jul 12, 2026)
Play, Original
Giant (Mar 23, 2026 - Jun 28, 2026)
Play, Original
Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) (Nov 20, 2025 - Nov 29, 2026)
Musical, Original
Chess (Nov 16, 2025 - Jun 21, 2026)
Musical, Revival
Rob Lake Magic with Special Guests The Muppets (Nov 14, 2025 - Nov 16, 2025)
Special, Original
Oedipus (Nov 13, 2025 - Feb 08, 2026)
Play, Revival
The Queen of Versailles (Nov 09, 2025 - Dec 21, 2025)
Musical, Original
Liberation (Oct 28, 2025 - Feb 01, 2026)
Play, Original
Art (Sep 16, 2025 - Dec 21, 2025)
Play, Revival
Dead Outlaw (Apr 27, 2025 - Jun 29, 2025)
Musical, Original
Just In Time (Apr 26, 2025 - Present)
Musical, Original
John Proctor is the Villain (Apr 14, 2025 - Sep 07, 2025)
Play, Original
SMASH (Apr 10, 2025 - Jun 22, 2025)
Musical, Original
Good Night, and Good Luck (Apr 03, 2025 - Jun 08, 2025)
Play, Original
Glengarry Glen Ross (Mar 31, 2025 - Jun 28, 2025)
Play, Revival
Othello (Mar 23, 2025 - Jun 08, 2025)
Play, Revival
Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical (Mar 20, 2025 - Present)
Musical, Original
Buena Vista Social Club (Mar 19, 2025 - Present)
Musical, Original
Gypsy (Dec 19, 2024 - Aug 17, 2025)
Musical, Revival
Swept Away (Nov 19, 2024 - Dec 29, 2024)
Musical, Original
Maybe Happy Ending (Nov 12, 2024 - Present)
Musical, Original
  • Co-Produced by Willette & Manny Klausner
  • Co-Produced by Willette Klausner
    • Replacement
    See Full Producer List
Romeo + Juliet (Oct 24, 2024 - Feb 16, 2025)
Play, Revival
Left on Tenth (Oct 23, 2024 - Feb 02, 2025)
Play, Original
Sunset Boulevard (Oct 20, 2024 - Jul 20, 2025)
Musical, Revival
Our Town (Oct 10, 2024 - Jan 19, 2025)
Play, Revival
The Roommate (Sep 12, 2024 - Dec 15, 2024)
Play, Original
JOB (Jul 30, 2024 - Oct 27, 2024)
Play, Original
Cabaret (Apr 21, 2024 - Sep 21, 2025)
Musical, Revival
Stereophonic (Apr 19, 2024 - Jan 12, 2025)
Play, Original
The Wiz (Apr 17, 2024 - Aug 18, 2024)
Musical, Revival
Water for Elephants (Mar 21, 2024 - Dec 08, 2024)
Musical, Original
Days of Wine and Roses (Jan 28, 2024 - Mar 31, 2024)
Musical, Original
How to Dance in Ohio (Dec 10, 2023 - Feb 11, 2024)
Musical, Original
Harmony (Nov 13, 2023 - Feb 04, 2024)
Musical, Original
Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch (Sep 27, 2023 - Feb 04, 2024)
Play, Revival
Grey House (Jun 06, 2023 - Jul 30, 2023)
Play, Original
The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window (Apr 27, 2023 - Jul 02, 2023)
Play, Revival
Ohio State Murders (Dec 08, 2022 - Jan 15, 2023)
Play, Original
Take Me Out (Nov 11, 2022 - Feb 05, 2023)
Play, Return Engagement
Almost Famous (Nov 03, 2022 - Jan 08, 2023)
Musical, Original
Walking with Ghosts (Oct 27, 2022 - Nov 20, 2022)
Play, Original
for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf (Apr 20, 2022 - Jun 05, 2022)
Play, Revival
American Buffalo (Apr 14, 2022 - Jul 10, 2022)
Play, Revival
MJ (Feb 01, 2022 - Present)
Musical, Original
Caroline, or Change (Oct 27, 2021 - Jan 09, 2022)
Musical, Revival
Hadestown (Apr 17, 2019 - Present)
Musical, Original
Ain't Too Proud (Mar 21, 2019 - Jan 16, 2022)
Musical, Original
American Son (Nov 04, 2018 - Jan 27, 2019)
Play, Original
Latin History for Morons (Nov 15, 2017 - Feb 25, 2018)
Play, Original
The Encounter (Sep 29, 2016 - Jan 08, 2017)
Play, Original
Eclipsed (Mar 06, 2016 - Jun 19, 2016)
Play, Original
Romeo and Juliet (Sep 19, 2013 - Dec 08, 2013)
Play, Revival
The Trip to Bountiful (Apr 23, 2013 - Oct 09, 2013)
Play, Revival
Kat and the Kings (Aug 19, 1999 - Jan 02, 2000)
Musical, Original
Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical (Sep 20, 2026 - Jul 25, 2027)
Musical, Original
Maybe Happy Ending (Sep 13, 2026 - Present)
Musical, Original
Buena Vista Social Club (Sep 12, 2026 - Present)
Musical, Original
Stereophonic (Oct 07, 2025 - May 10, 2026)
Play, Original
The Wiz (Feb 22, 2025 - May 31, 2026)
Musical, Revival
The Wiz - pre (Sep 23, 2023 - Mar 03, 2024)
Musical, Revival
MJ (Aug 01, 2023 - May 24, 2026)
Musical, Original
Ain't Too Proud (Dec 07, 2021 - Mar 03, 2024)
Musical, Original
Hadestown (Oct 05, 2021 - May 26, 2024)
Musical, Original

Tony Award®

 

Best Musical

2026 | Nominee  | The Lost Boys
Co-Produced by Willette Klausner / Waikit Lau
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Best Musical

2026 | Winner  | Schmigadoon!
Co-Produced by Willette Klausner / Kolson-Prisand
See Full Producer List
 

Best Musical

2026 | Nominee  | Titaníque
Co-Produced by D'Angora Padgett Productions / Willette Klausner
See Full Producer List
 

Best Musical

2026 | Nominee  | Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)
Co-Produced by Nicole Eisenberg / Willette & Manny Klausner
See Full Producer List
 

Best Play

2026 | Nominee  | Giant
Co-Produced by Willette Klausner & Tom D'Angora
See Full Producer List

Best Play

2026 | Winner  | Liberation
Co-Produced by Willette Klausner
See Full Producer List
 

Best Revival of a Musical

2026 | Nominee  | CATS: The Jellicle Ball
Co-Produced by Willette Klausner
See Full Producer List
 

Best Revival of a Play

2026 | Nominee  | Oedipus
Co-Produced by Willette & Manny Klausner
See Full Producer List
 

Best Musical

2025 | Nominee  | Buena Vista Social Club
Co-Produced by William Berlind / W.M. Klausner
See Full Producer List
 

Best Musical

2025 | Nominee  | Dead Outlaw
Co-Produced by Jane Bergère / Willette and Manny Klausner
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Best Musical

2025 | Winner  | Maybe Happy Ending
Co-Produced by Willette & Manny Klausner
See Full Producer List
 

Best Musical

2025 | Nominee  | Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical
Co-Produced by Willette & Manny Klausner / Elizabeth Faulkner Salem
See Full Producer List
 

Best Play

2025 | Nominee  | John Proctor is the Villain
Co-Produced by Klausner & Zell
See Full Producer List
 

Best Revival of a Musical

2025 | Nominee  | Gypsy
Co-Produced by Willette and Manny Klausner
See Full Producer List

Best Revival of a Musical

2025 | Winner  | Sunset Boulevard
Co-Produced by WMKlausner
See Full Producer List
 

Best Revival of a Play

2025 | Nominee  | Romeo + Juliet
Co-Produced by WMKlausner
See Full Producer List
 

Best Revival of a Play

2025 | Nominee  | Our Town
Produced by Willette & Manny Klausner
See Full Producer List
 

Best Musical

2024 | Nominee  | Water for Elephants
Produced by Willette & Manny Klausner
See Full Producer List

Best Play

2024 | Winner  | Stereophonic
Co-Produced by Willette & Manny Klausner
See Full Producer List
 

Best Revival of a Musical

2024 | Nominee  | Cabaret
Co-Produced by Marguerite Steed Hoffman / Willette & Manny Klausner
See Full Producer List
 

Best Revival of a Play

2024 | Nominee  | Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch
Produced by Willette and Manny Klausner
See Full Producer List
 

Best Revival of a Play

2023 | Nominee  | The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window
Produced by Willette and Manny Klausner
See Full Producer List
 

Best Musical

2022 | Nominee  | MJ
Produced by Willette & Manny Klausner
See Full Producer List
 

Best Revival of a Musical

2022 | Nominee  | Caroline, or Change
Produced in association with Caiola Productions/Willette & Manny Klausner
See Full Producer List
 

Best Revival of a Play

2022 | Nominee  | for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf
Produced by Willette & Manny Klausner
See Full Producer List
 

Best Revival of a Play

2022 | Nominee  | American Buffalo
Produced by Willette Klausner
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Best Musical

2019 | Nominee  | Ain't Too Proud
Produced by Willette & Manny Klausner
See Full Producer List

Best Musical

2019 | Winner  | Hadestown
Produced by Willette & Manny Klausner
See Full Producer List
 

Best Play

2018 | Nominee  | Latin History for Morons
Produced in association with Willette M. Klausner
See Full Producer List
 

Best Play

2016 | Nominee  | Eclipsed
Produced by Willette Klausner
See Full Producer List
 

Best Revival of a Play

2013 | Nominee  | The Trip to Bountiful
Produced in association with Willette Murphy Klausner / Reginald M. Browne
See Full Producer List

Drama Desk Award

Outstanding Musical

2026 | Winner  | Schmigadoon!
Co-Produced by Willette Klausner / Kolson-Prisand
See Full Producer List
 

Outstanding Musical

2026 | Nominee  | Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)
Co-Produced by Nicole Eisenberg / Willette & Manny Klausner
See Full Producer List
 

Outstanding Revival of a Musical

2026 | Nominee  | Chess
Co-Produced by Willette & Manny Klausner
See Full Producer List
 

Outstanding Musical

2025 | Nominee  | Just In Time
Co-Produced by Willette and Manny Klausner
See Full Producer List

Outstanding Musical

2025 | Winner  | Maybe Happy Ending
Co-Produced by Willette & Manny Klausner
See Full Producer List
 

Outstanding Play

2025 | Nominee  | John Proctor is the Villain
Co-Produced by Klausner & Zell
See Full Producer List
 

Outstanding Revival of a Musical

2025 | Nominee  | Sunset Boulevard
Co-Produced by WMKlausner
See Full Producer List

Outstanding Revival of a Musical

2025 | Winner  | Gypsy
Co-Produced by Willette and Manny Klausner
See Full Producer List
 

Outstanding Revival of a Musical

2024 | Nominee  | Cabaret
Co-Produced by Marguerite Steed Hoffman / Willette & Manny Klausner
See Full Producer List
 

Outstanding Revival of a Play

2024 | Nominee  | Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch
Produced by Willette and Manny Klausner
See Full Producer List
 

Outstanding Revival of a Play

2023 | Nominee  | Ohio State Murders
Produced by Willette and Manny S. Klausner
See Full Producer List
 

Outstanding Revival of a Musical

2022 | Nominee  | Caroline, or Change
Produced in association with Caiola Productions/Willette & Manny Klausner
See Full Producer List
 

Outstanding Revival of a Play

2022 | Nominee  | for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf
Produced by Willette & Manny Klausner
See Full Producer List
 

Outstanding Revival of a Play

2013 | Nominee  | The Trip to Bountiful
Produced in association with Willette Murphy Klausner / Reginald M. Browne
See Full Producer List

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