The Corporation of Brown University
Jill Furman
Trustee (2019-25)
Biography
| Jill Furman is an award-winning producer who seeks to produce groundbreaking commercial work that surprises audiences. On Broadway, she is currently represented by Suffs (Tony nomination) and Hamilton (Tony Award). Past Broadway credits include In the Heights (Tony Award), Freestyle Love Supreme (Special Tony Award), Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella, The Heiress, Seminar, West Side Story, The Drowsy Chaperone, Sly Fox, and Fortune’s Fool. On TV and Film, she executive produced Hamilton for Disney+ (Emmy Award) and In the Heights. She also produced Hulu’s We Are Freestyle Supreme, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2020. In 2011, she received the Robert Whitehead Award for Outstanding Achievement in Commercial Theatre Producing. Jill is a native New Yorker. She received a BA from Brown University and an MBA from Columbia. She is on the President’s Advisory Council for the Arts at Brown, and the Board of the Lung Cancer Research Foundation. |