Nine-time Tony Award winning producers Sue Wagner and John Johnson co-founded Wagner Johnson Productions (WJP) in 2019. WJP specializes in Producing and General Managing Broadway, Off-Broadway, touring, and international theatrical productions, as well as concerts, live experiences and special events. With an esteemed staff of seasoned industry professionals hailing from all areas of the live and digital entertainment space, WJP brings unrivaled passion, perspective, and experience to every project.
Wagner and Johnson began their multi-decade collaboration on the Tony Award–winning 2005 revival of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? They’ve gone on to produce nine Tony-winning productions, including Stereophonic (the most Tony nominated play of all time); The Lehman Trilogy; A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder; Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike; A Raisin in the Sun; Arthur Miller’s A View From the Bridge; Skylight; The Humans; and Hello, Dolly!
In total, they have amassed more than 50 Broadway and Off-Broadway credits, which also include Passing Strange, Equus, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Hair, End of the Rainbow, Betrayal, A Delicate Balance, The Merchant of Venice, Larry David's Fish in the Dark, Bright Star, Shuffle Along, The Front Page, A Doll's House Part 2, Meteor Shower, Three Tall Women, Carousel, The Waverly Gallery, Hillary and Clinton, Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus, The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window, Mike Birbiglia: The Old Man and the Pool, Almost Famous, Ain’t No Mo’, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Bad Cinderella, Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, Lempicka, and Stephen Sondheim’s final musical Here We Are.
Beyond Broadway, Wagner and Johnson produced The Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall from 2001 to 2008, the Off-Broadway immersive production of David Byrne’s Here Lies Love, the roller disco experience The DiscOasis in Central Park, Dylan Mulvaney’s Day 365 Live! at the Rainbow Room, the TodayTix Originals concert series at Showfields and Tavern on the Green, the live tour of podcast phenomenon Men In Blazers, and the history-making performance of To Kill a Mockingbird for an audience of 18,000 New York City public school students at Madison Square Garden.
