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Willette Klausner
PresidentWMK Productions, Inc
Producer, Three Mo’ Tenors; 40+ Broadway/Off Broadway and UK productions; first VP Marketing Research for Universal Studios.
Full Bio
Tony Award-winning producer Willette Murphy Klausner is the founder and president of the live, theatrical entertainment company, WMK PRODUCTIONS, INC., whose credits include 40 Broadway. Off-Broadway, US tours and London West End shows.
Her Broadway co-production credits include the Tony Award-winning plays M.J. the Musical and Hadestown; the Tony-nominated play Eclipsed, staring Lupita Nyong’o; American Buffalo revival, starring Laurence Fishburne, Sam Rockwell, and Darren Cris; Ohio State Murders, starring Audra McDonald; Hughie, starring Forest Whitaker; Romeo and Juliet, starring Orlando Bloom and Condola Rashad; The Trip to the Bountiful, starring the late Cicely Tyson; The Mountaintop, starring Angela Bassett and Samuel L. Jackson, and John Leguizamo’s Latin History for Morons. Ms. Klausner also co-presented the 75th anniversary U.S. and international tour of the opera, Porgy and Bess, in association with presenter Michael Capasso.
In addition to her Tony Awards, Ms. Klausner is the recipient of
Her Broadway co-production credits include the Tony Award-winning plays M.J. the Musical and Hadestown; the Tony-nominated play Eclipsed, staring Lupita Nyong’o; American Buffalo revival, starring Laurence Fishburne, Sam Rockwell, and Darren Cris; Ohio State Murders, starring Audra McDonald; Hughie, starring Forest Whitaker; Romeo and Juliet, starring Orlando Bloom and Condola Rashad; The Trip to the Bountiful, starring the late Cicely Tyson; The Mountaintop, starring Angela Bassett and Samuel L. Jackson, and John Leguizamo’s Latin History for Morons. Ms. Klausner also co-presented the 75th anniversary U.S. and international tour of the opera, Porgy and Bess, in association with presenter Michael Capasso.
In addition to her Tony Awards, Ms. Klausner is the recipient of
- Professional Credits
- Three Mo' Tenors, producer
Radium Girls, co-producer
Wakefield, co-producer
- Industry Awards
- The Drama League Gratitude Award 2022, Tony Awards: Hadestown, MJ the Musical,