Randy Adams

RANDY ADAMS is a Tony-award winning Producer and founding partner of Junkyard Dog Productions (JYD), a theatrical producing company dedicated to the development and production of new musical theatre.  JYD is currently represented on Broadway with Come From Away which is the winner of the Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Helen Hayes and Dora Award for Best Musical of 2017. The National Tour of Memphis (by Joe DiPietro and David Bryan) completed a successful multi-year run following an almost three year run on Broadway. Memphis is the winner of the Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best Musical of 2010. First Date premiered at Seattle’s 5 th Avenue /ACT Theatre prior to its Broadway run at the Longacre Theatre. Since its inception in 2006, JYD has also produced Make Me A Song, The Music of William Finn off-Broadway at New World Stages (Drama Desk nom., Outer Critics Circle nom.) and in London and Vanities, A New Musical at Second Stage Theatre.  Current projects include Chasing the Song, a new musical by the creators of Memphis which completed a developmental production at the La Jolla Playhouse, and Fly High.  Prior to creating JYD, he was the Managing Director at TheatreWorks in Palo Alto from 1984 to 2006.  He holds an M.A from the University of Kansas and a B.A from Otterbein University.