Through Nine Stories, Gyllenhaal served as a producer on Sea Wall/A Life and Jeremy O. Harris’ Slave Play, which received a total of 12 Tony nominations; both productions received Tony ...
For the stage, Nine Stories produced “We’re Only Alive for a Short Amount of Time” by playwright David Cale, with Gyllenhaal serving as a producer on “Sea Wall/A Life” and Jeremy O.
All that prep sounds wholly consuming, but for Gyllenhaal, the entire journey gave him a chance to reflect not only on the results but also on the process and his fifth decade of life.