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"Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics."

Victor Pinchuk

Welcome to Clear Day Productions


We support art that champions vulnerability and authenticity while striving towards greater transparency and access amongst theater makers.

Jennifer Taylor Friedland

Producer


Jennifer is a proud Michigander and moved to New York City in 2002 after graduating from The University of Michigan (A.B., ’97, J.D., ’02) and Harvard University Graduate School of Education (Ed.M., ’99). For twenty years, Jennifer witnessed firsthand the importance of storytelling – first as a matrimonial attorney and later as a child welfare advocate. In 2018, Jennifer founded Clear Day Productions to support bringing soul-stirring stories to the stage. She is a two-time Tony Award® nominated producer and has completed the Commercial Theater Institute's 14-Week Program, the Theatre Resource Unlimited Masterclass Course and is a member of the New York State Bar Association.

Our Team


Joe Hetterly

Associate Producer

Joe Hetterly (he/him/his) is a passionate arts administrator, producer, and teacher who is interested in cultivating equitable spaces for artists to create. His professional expertise is holistic, with experience in commercial theater, the nonprofit sector, casting, education, and at a talent agency. Recently, he has worked as a general management assistant at 101 Productions, Ltd., a producing and management associate at Tectonic Theater Project, and in the finance department at Disney Theatrical Group. Currently, he works at the Public Theater as their Interim Budgets Manager and volunteers with the Harriet Tubman Effect as their LanternTix Program Manager. As an educator, he has taught at SUNY Purchase and NYCDA. BFA acting: Marymount Manhattan College, MFA performing arts management: Brooklyn College.

Vick Liu

Associate Producer

Vick Liu is a Chinese-born, world-traveling theater producer and theatremaker. He received his BA from Minerva University in Art & Literature and New Ventures & Start-Up. In the past, he has worked at Manhattan Theatre Club, New York Stage & Film, and Queensboro Dance Festival. With other peers, he runs Paper Kraine and Entry Level reading series for artists to workshop new work in a safe space. His prior works have been presented in China, San Francisco, and New York. Recent New York producing credits: Three Scenes in the Life of a Trotskyist, The Queen of the Living Room.. 


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    Award-winning productions


    Water for Elephants

    2024

    Four Drama Desk Awards Including Best Director


    Seven Tony Award® Nominations Including Best Musical and Best Director






    Suffs

    2024

    Six Tony Award® Nominations including Best Musical


    Tony Award® for Best Book


    Tony Award® for Best Score


    A Strange Loop

    2020

    Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama


    Tony Award® for Best Musical


    Tony Award® for Best Book

     Michael R. Jackson




    Our Dear Dead Drug Lord

    2020

    Obie Award Winner Best Direction

    Whitney White


    Obie Award Winner Design

    Yu-Hsuan Chen


    John Gassner Playwriting Award, Outer Critics Award


    What the constitution means to me

    2019

     Pulitzer Prize Finalist for Drama


    Tony Award® Nominee for Best Play

    The Cher Show

    2018

    Tony Award® for Best Actress in a Musical

    Stephanie J. Block


    Tony Award® for Costume Design in a Musical

     Bob Mackie


    

    Press


    "Well, miracles do happen, even on Broadway. The circus-themed love story, already a novel and a movie, becomes a gorgeously imaginative Broadway musical."


    Water for Elephants

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    "Alexis Scheer’s vibrant play about four teenage girls, a Ouija board and a narco-terrorist summons the truly scary spirits that keep us awake at night."


    My Dear Dead Drug Lord

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    “It seems as if there is no measure of praise that could be too much; after all, this is a show that allows a Black gay man to be vulnerable onstage without dismissing or fetishizing his trauma, desires and creative ambitions. Now that’s some radical theater.”


    A Strange Loop

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    "It is not just the best play to open on Broadway so far this season, but also the most important."


    What the Constitution Means to Me

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    "It’s not easy to make a hardened theater critic squirm in his seat, but I wasn’t sure I had the toughness to withstand the opening scene of “Our Dear Dead Drug Lord,” Alexis Scheer’s critically touted play about the savage secret lives of teenage girls."


    My Dear Dead Drug Lord

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    " ...the musical will forever be seen as a milestone for autistic representation and accessibility in theater."


    How to Dance in Ohio

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    Those Who Can't Perform, Produce!

    On a Clear Day You Can see Forever...

    "I regard the theater as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being."

    - Thornton Wilder

    Let’s create something meaningful together

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