Sonia Friedman co-founded Out of Joint with Max Stafford-Clark in 1993 after spending four years (1989-93) as Head of Mobile Productions and Theatre for Young People at the National Theatre.

Productions for OOJ included Sue Townsend’s The Queen And I; The Libertine by Stephen Jeffreys; The Steward Of Christendom by Sebastian Barry; The Break Of Day by Timberlake Wertenbaker; The Positive Hour by April de Angelis; Shopping And Fucking by Mark Ravenhill, Our Lady Of Sligo by Sebastian Barry and Blue Heart by Caryl Churchill.

During that time Sonia also produced Maria Friedman By Special Arrangement at the Donmar Warehouse.

In 1993 she set up Sonia Friedman Productions, a subsidiary of the Ambassadors Theatre Group. SFP recently received fifteen nominations for the 2003/04 Olivier Awards.

West End productions to date include: Calico (currently at the Duke of York’s); Jumpers with Simon Russell Beale; Absolutely! (Perhaps) with Joan Plowright; Hitchcock Blonde (new play by Terry Johnson); See You Next Tuesday with Nigel Havers & Ardal O’Hanlon; Sexual Perversity In Chicago with Matthew Perry & Minnie Driver; Ragtime with Maria Friedman; A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg with Eddie Izzard, Clive Owen and Victoria Hamilton (also on Broadway); Afterplay with John Hurt and Penelope Wilton; Up For Grabs starring Madonna; Macbeth with Sean Bean and Samantha Bond; On An Average Day with Woody Harrelson and Kyle MacLachlan; Noises Off by Michael Frayn (also on Broadway); Lobby Hero; What The Night Is For with Gillian Anderson and Roger Allam; Gargaran Way by Gregory Burke; Maria Friedman at the New Ambassadors; Marc Salem’s Mind Games; The Servant Of Two Masters (new version by Lee Hall); Port Authority by Conor McPherson; Spoonface Steinberg by Lee Hall; Speed The Plow by David Mamet; In Flame by Charlotte Jones; The Mystery Of Charles Dickens starring Simon Callow; The Late Middle Classes by Simon Gray; Last Dance At Dum Dum by Ayub Khan-Din.

SFP also programmes the New Ambassadors where plays include (from May 1999): Stones In His Pockets; Drummers; Some Explicit Polaroids; Krapp’s Last Tape; Our Late Night; Al Murray The Pub Landlord; Shared Experience’s Jane Eyre, Mother Courage and Her Children, A Doll's House, and Mill on the Floss; The Vagina Monologues; One for the Road; Boston Marriage; The Woman Who Cooked Her Husband; Abigail's Party; The Bomb-Itty of Errors; Supergirly,  Ed Byrne, Jerry Sadowitz; Marion and Geoff; Gina Yashere, Tommy Tiernan.

New projects for 2004 include Andrew Lloyd-Webber’s The Woman In White directed by Trevor Nunn; Anna Christie by Eugene O’Neill directed by Ian Rickson; Endgame by Samuel Beckett directed by Matthew Warchus and By The Bog Of Cats by Marina Carr directed by Dominic Cook and starring Holly Hunter.