About

STACI LEVINE is founder and president of Groundswell Theatricals, Inc, a NYC-based producing and general management company, specializing in plays, musicals, stage concerts, and special events.  Groundswell has produced on Broadway, Off-Broadway, across North America, London’s West End, and Australia.

Current productions include Patti LuPone’s concert tours A Life in Notes, Songs From a Hat, and Matters of the Heart; the production Letters Light and Love, recently at Carnegie and soon to play UCLA’s Royce Hall; the Off-Broadway play The Ask, starring Marilu Henner and Shannon Purser; and the 2026 American Theatre Wing Gala Concert. 

Recent production include the Off-Broadway stage adaptation of Patrick Bringley’s best-selling novel All the Beauty in the World, directed by Dominic Dromgoole; Arlekin Players Theatre production of The Orchard starring Jessica Hecht and Mikhail Baryshnikov; three seasons of the podcast Radio Play Revival (available on Broadway Podcast Network); the national tour of Patti LuPone’s concert Don’t Monkey with Broadway; and along with Co-Executive Producer Jessica R. Jenen the 2024 and 2025 Drama Desk Awards. 

Other productions include Lisa Lampanelli’s touring production Sit Down & Shut Up and Losin’ It!; John Lithgow’s solo show Stories By Heart (Broadway, tour); Nina Conti’s In Your Face (Off-Broadway); the new musical A Taste of Things to Come by Debra Barsha and Hollye Levin, with direction & choreography by Lorin Latarro (Off-Broadway, Chicago); The Gideon & Hubcap Show (London, Edinburgh); and the tour of I See You Made an Effort, the solo show by NYTimes best-selling author Annabelle Gurwitch. 

From 2005 to 2024, Staci was the producer for Mandy Patinkin’s production company, producing his solo concerts Being Alive (West End, tour) Dress Casual (Broadway, West End, tour), Mamaloshen (Broadway, Off-Broadway, tour), Celebrating Sondheim (Broadway, tour), and Diaries (Off-Broadway, tour), as well as his collaborative concerts and shows An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin (Broadway, tour), The Last Two People on Earth: An Apocalyptic Vaudeville (Off-Broadway, tour) starring Mandy and Taylor Mac with direction & choreography by Susan Stroman (Off-Broadway, tour); and the tour of An Evening with Mandy Patinkin & Nathan Gunn. 

Developmental workshop productions include: The Pill by Roni Sinai, Mark Bell and Dave Hanson, with direction by Mark Bell; Shadows ‘Round the Moon a new play by Janice Kennedy, starring Kate Burton with direction by Susan Stroman; and Winter People by Laura Neill with direction by Daniella Topol. 

Prior to founding Groundswell, Staci produced works by the playwright David Simpatico including the play Mary, the opera The Screams of Kitty Genovese (with music by Will Todd), and the film Wish Fulfillment. She general managed the Off-Broadway play The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant by Fassbinder at Henry Miller’s Theater and was the General Manager for dre.dance, a contemporary dance company created by Taye Diggs and Andrew Palermo.

Staci cut her teeth in commercial theater with the Dodgers. From 1996 to 2005 she worked on numerous Broadway, Off-Broadway, and touring productions including Once Upon a Mattress, Titanic, The King & I, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Footloose, Mandy Patinkin in Concert, High Society, Blast!, The Music Man, 42nd Street, 1776, Wrong Mountain, The Mystery of Charles Dickens, Into the Woods, Barbra’s Wedding, BARE, Urinetown, Dracula, the Musical, and Good Vibrations, as a member of Dodger Management Group.

A native Texan, Staci spent many years in Austin after attending The University of Texas. She was the Managing Director for Third Coast Jazz, a contemporary and jazz dance company and was the Program Director for Believe in Me, the Austin branch of Jacques d’Amboise’s National Dance Institute.

Staci is a member of The Broadway League.