Biography
Paul Blake (born 1941) is a Tony Award-nominated theatre producer, writer and director. He served as lead producer of Beautiful: The Carole King Musical alongside co-producers Sony/ATV and Mike Bosner, which premiered on Broadway in 2014 garnering seven Tony Award Nominations including Best Musical and winning in 2 categories (Best Lead Actress in a Musical and Best Sound Design of a Musical). At the time of its final performance (October 27, 2019) it was the 27th longest-running show in the history of Broadway.
Blake also co-wrote and co-produced the Tony Award-nominated musical Irving Berlin’s White Christmas which, after two successful runs on Broadway, is now one of the most produced Christmas musical around the United States. Blake also served as lead producer for the 2017 Broadway revival of Andrew Lloyd Weber’s Sunset Boulevard[8] starring Glenn Close at the Palace Theatre.
For 22 years he was the executive producer of the St. Louis MUNY, the largest and oldest outdoor theatre in America.