John
Gore

Gore began 2020 with the eponymous JGO becoming the first theater company to have gross revenue exceeding $1 billion, co-producing the three new Tony-nominated musicals of the 2019-20 Broadway season (“Jagged Little Pill,” “Tina: The Tina Turner Musical” and “Moulin Rouge! The Musical!”) while nabbing a total of 41 Tony nominations in the process. Over the pandemic shutdown, his company Broadway.com’s streaming fundraisers and donations from JGO ticket holders raised more than $2.6 million for support organizations including the Actors Fund, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and the COVID-19 Emergency Assistance Fund. Gore himself provided $500K in coronavirus relief for U.K. theater, and his family of companies introduced social and web programming to raise awareness of the anti-racism movement, reaching upwards of 3 million Broadway fans.