Broadway-bound shows include the revival of For Colored Girls, Thoughts of a Colored Man and Blue (w/ Leslie Uggams and Lynn Whitfield directed by Phylicia Rashad with composition by Nona Hendrix and John Legend producing). He also produced Hughie (w/ Forest Whitaker), The Gin Game (w/ Cecily Tyson and James Earl Jones) and the all-black Broadway production of A Streetcar Named Desire (winner of AEAвЂ™s Extraordinary Excellence in Diversity on Broadway Award).

Simons won his fourth Tony Award for August WilsonвЂ™s Jitney. He also produced the Broadway productions of A GentlemanвЂ™s Guide to Love and Murder (Tony Award for Best Musical), The GershwinвЂ™sвЂ™ Porgy & Bess (Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical), Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Tony Award for Best Play, Drama Desk, New Drama Critics and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best Play, Drama League Award for Outstanding Production of a Broadway or Off-Broadway Play). His first documentary 25 to Life premiered at the American Black Film Festival where it won Best Documentary. Simons leads the strategic planning and development of theatre, film and television projects including the critically acclaimed Sundance films Night Catches Us (w/ Kerry Washington, Anthony Mackie and Wendell Pierce), Gun Hill Road (w/ Esai Morales and Judy Reyes), Blue Caprice (w/ Isaiah Washington and Tequan Richmond) and Mother of George (w/ Danai Gurira) вЂ“ three of which premiered in competition. Simons is the highest African-American Tony Award winning producer of all time, cementing him as the leading Broadway producer working today bringing diversity to the stage.ДЄs CEO of SimonSays Entertainment, Mr. Simons was recently nominated for his 5th Tony Award for the runaway hit AinвЂ™t Too Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations at the Imperial Theater on Broadway. He is the Founder and CEO of SimonSays Entertainment, whose mission is to tell the stories of underrepresented communities (the trademark of the company is Tell Every StoryВ®). Ron Simons is a five-time Tony Award-nominated and four-time Tony Award-winning producer and a four-time Sundance Film Festival selected producer.

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