Stewart Lane
2018 Manhattan Jewish Hall of Fame Inductee
BIOGRAPHY
STEWART F. LANE is the founder of BroadwayHD (broadwayhd.com), a stage to screen production and distribution company expanding the reach of Broadway shows by making them available in cinemas, PPV and streaming on-line. BroadwayHD offers over 175 productions from Broadway, BBC, WNET and many others including Holiday Inn (Bryce Pinkham, Corbin Bleu, Lora Lee Gayer), She Loves Me (Zachary Levi, Laura Benanti, Jane Krakowski), Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill (Audra McDonald), Romeo and Juliet (Orlando Bloom), and the award winning production of Gypsy starring Imelda Staunton.
BroadwayHD is in the Guinness book of World Records for the first ever live stream of the Broadway show She Loves Me. Mr. Lane is a six-time Tony award winning producer for A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, War Horse, Jay Johnson: The Two & Only, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Will Rogers Follies and La Cage Aux Folles, as well as an additional eight-time nominee. He received four Drama Desks, a Drama Critics Circle, Outer Critics Circle, Actors Fund Award, Paul Newman Award, and Drama-League awards.
In 2013 he won his first Olivier Award for Irving Berlin's Top Hat in the West End. Currently, he is producing the Gloria and Emilio Estefan musical biography On Your Feet and Sunset Boulevard starring Glenn Close. Mr. Lane is co-owner and operator of the legendary Palace Theatre on Broadway. Mr. Lane has written the critically acclaimed "Black Broadway: African Americans on the Great White Way" (Square One Publishers), "Jews on Broadway" (McFarland Publishers), "Put on a Show",(Working Arts Library) which is also on DVD, and the plays In The Wings (published in the spring 2008 by Hal Leonard), If It Was Easy (published by Performing Books and nominated for Best New Play by the American Theatre Critics Association), and Back Home Again formally A Moment In Time (with music and lyrics by John Denver) which he was awarded The 2011 John Denver Spirit Award for his work. Mr. Lane is a graduate of the Boston University College of Fine Arts where he has created a Musical Theater Program and also serves on the Board of Overseers. Mr. Lane is a member of the Broadway League and served on the Board of Governors for 11 years. He also serves on the Board of Trustees for the Actors Fund of America and the Board of Advisors for the American Theatre Wing.
