The Corporation of Brown University

Jill Furman

Trustee (2019-25)

Biography

Jill Furman is a Tony and Emmy Award winning Producer, and the founder of Jill Furman Productions. On Broadway, she has produced Freestyle Love Supreme (Special Tony Award), Hamilton (Tony Award), In the Heights (Tony Award), Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella, The Heiress, Seminar, West Side Story, The Drowsy Chaperone, Sly Fox, and Fortune's Fool. Jill is an Executive Producer of the film version of In the Heights and the Hamilton movie on Disney+ (Emmy Award) as well as a producer of the Hulu documentary We are Freestyle Love Supreme. In 2011, Furman received the Robert Whitehead Award for Outstanding Achievement in Commercial Theatre Producing. Furman is on the Board of the Lung Cancer Research Foundation, the advisory board of FLS+ and the Arts Advisory Council at Brown. She received a bachelor's degree in art history from Brown in 1990 and an MBA from Columbia University in 1997.