Biography
John Gore has won 15 Tonys, an Olivier and an Emmy Award. He is a British producer who is Chairman, C.E.O. and sole owner of the John Gore Organization family of companies. These include Broadway Across America, Broadway, The Broadway Channel, BroadwayBox.com and Group Sales Box Office.
The company produces shows on Broadway, in London's West End, Japan, China and presents in 48 cities across North America. Presentations include The Phantom of the Opera, Disney's The Lion King, Wicked, The Book of Mormon and Hamilton. Recent U.S. investments include Ain't Too Proud; Chicago; Dear Evan Hansen; Hamilton; Mean Girls; Moulin Rouge! and Tina: The Tina Turner Musical.
As a film producer, his work includes the film "Believe: The Eddie Izzard Story" (2010 Emmy Award nomination) and, the television special, WCBS-TV's "At The Tony's with Imogen Lloyd Webber" (2018 NY Emmy Award). He directed the only stage adaptations of Batman and Star Trek and produced the record breaking Thunderbirds FAB, which at the age of 26 made him the youngest ever successful West End producer. He followed this with the hit Wallace & Gromit on stage at Sadler's Wells. His show investments include the original London productions of Cats, The Phantom of the Opera, Wicked and Hamilton.
A committed philanthropist, John and his companies provide support to a diverse array of more than 60 organizations spanning virtually every conceivable sector of not-for-profit theater work. Recent programs include establishing a new award supporting emerging artists with the Princess Grace Foundation USA, underwriting Hamilton's education programs with the Gilder-Lehrman Institute of American History, providing theater educators in the NYC public schools through the Arthur Miller Foundation, as well as supporting Columbia University's T-Fellowship Program, and the American Theatre Wing's Andrew Lloyd Webber Initiative. In 2017, John partnered with Scarlett Johansson to organize a one-night-only, all-star benefit reading of Our Town featuring Johansson, Robert Downey Jr. and the cast of the Avengers, raising $500,000 for the Hurricane Maria Community Relief & Recovery Fund.
