Create
With Abandon
We commission, develop, and produce bold new work for the stage and screen. We begin with writers. We develop with rigor. We create with integrity and impact.
Our work Is Elevated. Fearless. Resonant.
What We Do
We start with writers.
Unafraid to take creative risk with generative artists working at the height of their powers, we marry a writer-driven process to a bold aesthetic in pursuit of the most resonant and provocative ideas and questions of our time.
Artistic Integrity
And Broad Appeal
We create for global audiences.
Building upon our founder’s twenty-year track record,
our collaborations challenge and engage audiences
across media, worldwide.
Work
Currently In Production
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Work
Currently In Development
The Last Return
A new play
By Sonya Kelly
Director Rebecca Taichman
Treasure
A new musical
Book by Rick Elice
Music & Lyrics by Benjamin Scheuer
Director Rebecca Taichman
The Ghost Writer
A new musical under commission
Book by Daniel Goldfarb
Music & Lyrics by Tom Kitt
Adapted from the novel by Philip Roth
An Untitled New Musical
Under commission
Book by Julia Jordan
Music & Lyrics by Emeli Sandé
Music Supervisor Tom Kitt
An Untitled New Play
Under commission
By Sarah Treem
in collaboration with ACT San Francisco
Inside the World of Somewhere Else
A new play under commission
By Calamity West
An Untitled New Play
Under comission
By Kendell Pinkney
Current Partner Projects
REDWOOD
Book by Tina Landau
Music by Kate Diaz
Lyrics by Landau and Diaz
Starring and with additional material by Idina Menzel
PHOTOGRAPH 51
a feature film
By Anna Ziegler
Adapted from her play
Produced in partnership with Leviathan Productions
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REDWOODBook by Tina LandauMusic by Kate DiazLyrics by Diaz and LandauStarring and with additional material by Idina Menzel |
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PHOTOGRAPH 51a feature filmBy Anna ZieglerProduced in partnership with Leviathan Productions |
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Select Past Productions
Jaja's African Hair Braiding
Produced by MTC, commissioned and developed by Mandy Greenfield for Williamstown Theater Festival
“A buffet of delights…crafted so smartly.”
2024 Tony Award Nomination for Best Play
Cost of Living
For Williamstown Theater Festival
“Worth its weight in gold.”
2023 Tony Award Nomination for Best Play, 4 additional Tony Award Nominations
2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
A Raisin in the Sun
By Lorraine Hansberry
Directed by Robert O'Hara
For Williamstown Theater Festival
“A production that burns with new fire and makes a 60-year old play feel devastatingly of the present."
The Sound Inside
For Williamstown Theater Festival
“A gripping small-scale mystery.” and “A flawless production.”
2021 Tony Award for Best Actress:
Mary-Louise Parker
2021 Tony Award Nomination for Best Play
Selling Kabul
By Sylvia Khoury
Directed by Tyne Rafaeli
For Williamstown Theater Festival
“Nimble entertainment and a first-rate workout for your sympathetic nervous system!”
2022 Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Paradise Blue
By Dominique Morisseau
Directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson
For Williamstown Theater Festival
“A work that merits deep and long consideration."
Grand Horizons
For Williamstown Theater Festival
“A clever truth bomb of a play."
2021 Tony Award Nomination for Best Play
Murder Ballad
Book & lyrics by Julia Jordan
Music & lyrics by Juliana Nash
Directed by Trip Cullman
For Manhattan Theatre Club
“A love triangle with a razor’s edges…a show that knows exactly what it wants to do, that then does it, with no apologizing or backtracking.”
2013 Outer Critics Circle Award, Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical
The Lion
Written and performed by Benjamin Scheuer
Directed by Sean Daniels
For Manhattan Theatre Club
“Shocks and twists of emotional appeal that only the hardest-hearted could resist.”
2015 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Performance
Lempicka
For Williamstown Theater Festival
“A woke throwback - think of Evita or Les Misérables, the blockbusters that ruled Broadway…musical theatre fans who’ve been wondering why they don’t write dominating parts for women anymore have reason to cheer.”
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Writers
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Actors
Directors
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About
Founder and Principal
Meet Mandy
Mandy Greenfield is the Founder and Principal of Red Yes Studio. The plays and musicals she has commissioned, developed, and produced have garnered every major theatrical honor including Tony Awards, the Pulitzer Prize in Drama, Lucille Lortel Awards, Drama Desk Awards, Obie Awards, and the Kleban Prize in Musical Theatre.
