About

STACI LEVINE is founder and president of Groundswell Theatricals, Inc, a NYC-based producing and general management company. Groundswell has produced on Broadway, Off-Broadway, across North America, London’s West End, Australia, and New Zealand.

Current productions include the Arlekin Players Theatre production of The Orchard starring Jessica Hecht and Mikhail Baryshnikov; the podcast Radio Play Revival (available on Broadway Podcast Network) now in its second season; the national tour of Patti LuPone’s concert Don’t Monkey with Broadway; and Mandy Patinkin’s national concert tour Being Alive. Staci is also the producer of the 2023 Drama Desk Awards and the 2023 American Theatre Wing Gala.

Recent productions include Lisa Lampanelli’s touring production Sit Down & Shut Up; An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin (Broadway, tour); John Lithgow’s 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 Last Two People on Earth: An Apocalyptic Vaudeville, starring Mandy Patinkin and Taylor Mac with direction & choreography by Susan Stroman (Off-Broadway, tour); the tour of An Evening with Mandy Patinkin & Nathan Gunn; Mandy Patinkin’s solo concerts: Dress Casual (Broadway, West End, tour), Mamaloshen (Broadway, Off-Broadway, tour), Celebrating Sondheim (Broadway, tour), and Diaries (Off-Broadway, tour); The Gideon & Hubcap Show (London, Edinburgh); the workshop of Shadows ‘Round the Moon a new play by Janice Kennedy, starring Kate Burton with direction by Susan Stroman; the workshop of the new play Winter People by Laura Neill with direction by Daniella Topol, and the tour of I See You Made an Effort, the one-woman show by NYTimes best-selling author Annabelle Gurwitch.

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.