Harvey Weinstein CBE (born March 19, 1952) is an American former film producer. He and his brother Bob Weinstein co-founded the entertainment company Miramax, which produced several successful independent films, including Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989), The Crying Game (1992), Pulp Fiction (1994), Heavenly Creatures (1994), Flirting with Disaster (1996), and Shakespeare in Love (1998).
Weinstein won an Academy Award for producing Shakespeare in Love, and garnered seven Tony Awards for a variety of plays and musicals, including The Producers, Billy Elliot the Musical, and August: Osage County. After leaving Miramax, Weinstein and his brother Bob founded The Weinstein Company, a mini-major film studio. He was co-chairman, alongside Bob, from 2005 to 2017.
A Weinstein Accuser, A Miramax Bidder, A Top Broadway Director And Hollywood’s Premiere Songwriter Created The First #MeToo Musical – And Then Covid Arrived
deadline.comGreg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticDespite what you may have read, The Right Girl is not a musical about Harvey Weinstein.
Then again, having been created by one of the first women to speak out against the rapist, it’s not not a musical about Harvey Weinstein.Had Broadway not gone dark with the coronavirus pandemic last March, audiences might already be deciding for themselves how much Weinstein there is in the musical’s villain, and how much is Cosby or Lauer or any of the dozen or so famous men melded into the fictional predator The Right Girl calls Paul.
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