GREG SCHAFFERT
is a Tony Award-winning producer with 30 plus years of experience working in every facet of the theatre. He led the production of Rick Elice’s Peter and the Starcatcher, based on the Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson best-selling novel, with writer Rick Elice and co-directors Roger Rees and Alex Timbers. The play received nine Tony Award nominations, the most ever for an American play. It won five Tony Awards, making it the only play ever to win Tony Awards for the complete design team. He was an original producer of the Broadway productions All Shook Up and Burn the Floor and the National Tour of The Lightning Thief. He also supported the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Next to Normal. He was on the producing teams of the off-Broadway, award-winning musicals, Bat Boy and Striking 12 and the longest-running American play in history Shear Madness. Greg has developed over 50 musicals and plays, and has Executive and Line Produced a number of developing musicals and plays in Festivals and Regional Theatres around the country.
