James Seabright is an Olivier Award-winning commercial theatre producer and general manager based in London.
Productions include the worldwide tour and Las Vegas residency of Potted Potter by Dan and Jeff, UK tours of Black Is The Color Of My Voice by Apphia Campbell, the immersive Trainspotting Live, Buffy Revamped by Brendan Murphy, and acclaimed new musical The Sorcerer’s Apprentice by Richard Hough and Ben Morales Frost, which premiered as a digital show in 2021 and can now be seen globally via BroadwayHD.
Previous London productions include The Way Old Friends Do (Criterion, Birmingham Rep and UK tour), Adam Kay’s This Is Going To Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor (Garrick, Apollo, Vaudeville, Palace, Duchess, Lyric and Hammersmith Apollo), Showstopper! The Improvised Musical (Ambassadors, Apollo, Criterion and Lyric), Loot by Joe Orton (Park and Watermill), The Boys in The Band by Mart Crowley (Park and Vaudeville), Our Boys by Jonathan Lewis (Duchess), The Lion by Benjamin Scheuer (St James), Eric and Little Ern (Vaudeville), and several seasons of Potted Panto and Potted Sherlock with Dan and Jeff. James has served as Chair on the board of the King’s Head Theatre in London and is an associate artist of Wilton’s Music Hall. His first book, So You Want to Be a Theatre Producer, was published in 2010 by Nick Hern Books.
Becky Barber is commercial theatre Producer with over 15 years experience in producing and general management. Becky is Executive Producer at Jonathan Church Theatre Productions where upcoming productions include: 42nd Street (London and U.K. tour), In Dreams (Leeds and Toronto), Quiz (U.K. tour), A Voyage Round My Father (Bath and U.K. tour), It’s Headed Straight Towards Us (Park Theatre), A Monster Calls (Japan). Becky worked at Greene Light Stage (formerly Old Vic Productions) from 2007 until 2018, highlights included working on the global productions of Billy Elliot: The Musical, numerous co-productions with The Old Vic Theatre Company and Private Lives, Good People, Jerusalem, Noises Off, Sweeney Todd and The Pajama Game in the West End.
Other credits include: Associate Producer and General Manager on behalf of Nica on the 2019 multi–Olivier Award-winning play, Emilia, at The Vaudeville Theatre.
As an independent producer she was awarded the first Stage One start-up fund for her premiere of Sebastian Faulks’s Birdsong in 2010 and most recently produced Fox at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2019 and on tour in 2023.
in 2019 Becky formed Becky Barber Producing Masterclass and has developed specific course modules as a visiting lecturer to The Central School of Speech and Drama for their MA course in Creative Producing, mentored numerous young producers, coached private clients both in-person and online and acted as Producing Consultant for literary agency, Alan Brodie Representation.
She is a member of The Society of London Theatre and sits on the board of Stage One and school drama company 4Sixteen in Bedford.
Tracey Childs is a Producer at Bill Kenwright Ltd (BKL).
After decades as an actor, she crossed over to the dark-side and started producing independently in 2009 with the late Andrew Hall as Hall and Childs Ltd which presented productions in the West End and on tour.
After being on the board of Colchester’s Mercury Theatre, Tracey switched to the new full-time role of Producer in 2014 and then stepped up to Executive Producer and Joint Chief Executive alongside Executive Director Steve Mannix. After leaving the Mercury, Tracey joined Bill Kenwright Ltd in May 2024.
She has served on UK Theatre’s Industrial Relations Committee and for several years chaired their negotiations with Equity. She has also served on the Council of Stage One, the charity that supports theatre producers, and stood in as Interim Chief Executive for three months in 2024.
With her company J Clare Productions, Julie is one of the West End producers of Olivier Award- winning Showstopper! The Improvised Musical. She was Associate Producer on two other Olivier-Award Winning shows – In The Heights (King’s Cross Theatre) and Baby Reindeer (Bush Theatre).
Other producing credits include: Snow Queen (Park Theatre); Julie Madly Deeply (Brits Off Broadway); Abigail’s Party and Strangers On A Train (Number 1 Tours); Chinglish (Park Theatre); Sideshow (Southwark Playhouse); Peter Pan (Park Theatre); These Folk (touring); Feeling Afraid (Edinburgh – Fringe First); Play On! (with Talawa -touring and Lyric Hammersmith). She also ran Yes Queens, the West End’s first female-led improvised comedy night (Boulevard, BAC, King’s Head, Park Theatre, touring). She was a recipient of the Stage One Bursary in 2016. Over the last three years through Joy Theatrical Productions she produced Jack And The Beanstalk, Sleeping Beauty (Offie for Best Production) and Dick Whittington and his Catford Cat.
Through Julie Clare Productions, she aggregates investment for high profile productions including: Fleabag, Betrayal, Dear Evan Hansen, Cyrano De Bergerac, The Seagull, Cabaret, Lemons, Retrograde, Player Kings, Benjamin Button, Harry Clarke, Death On The Nile, Kathy & Stella and more.
Forthcoming projects include new musical Bollywood Rose and Angry Salmon.
Julie trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. She has a long record of working with charities and NGOs including being Strategic Director for Fresh Voices UK – an organisation dedicated to promoting ethnically diverse writers to top levels of the UK television and theatre industry. She was Funding Director for children’s theatre charity Montage Theatre Arts and is co-founder of Russell Clare Associates (www.ruscla.com), a consultancy specialising in protected characteristics.
Andrew Collier is Creative Director at Minor Entertainment which he co-founded in 2009 to create spectacular family theatre events in unique places. Their first production, In the Night Garden Live, toured the UK in its own inflatable theatre for eight consecutive summers. It is now touring to theatres around the UK and has been seen by over 1.3m people.
Andrew is a specialist in ticketing and director of Family Tickets which he co-founded in 2017. He has served on the board of the Society of Ticket Agents and Retailers (STAR) and is a Trustee of the Theatre Development Trust (TDT).
Laura Elmes is the founder and producer for Wildpark Entertainment, working primarily on new musicals and comedy. Most recent productions include Unfortunate: The Untold Story of Ursula the Sea Witch (Underbelly London, Edinburgh Fringe and UK tours), Algorithms (Edinburgh Fringe and Soho Theatre, now an Amazon Audible Original series), and a new series of comedy nights, Live at Wembley Park Theatre.
Laura also set up and ran The Drive In, the UK’s largest and highest-grossing drive-in cinema during the COVID-19 pandemic. Initially planned for 8 weeks, The Drive In ran for 11 months and showed films alongside live shows. Laura was previously Line Producer for Runaway Entertainment on 2:22 A Ghost Story (Noel Coward) and The Windsors Endgame (Prince of Wales), alongside having been Production Coordinator at Runaway from 2015 – 2018. She was awarded a Stage One Bursary in 2018.
Rebecca Gwyther is a producer, general manager and chartered accountant who runs RJG Productions, a company focusing on new writing that is currently producing Fanny at the Watermill Theatre. Recent producing and/or general management credits include Hir (Park Theatre), It’s Headed Straight Towards Us (Park Theatre), Boy Parts (Soho Theatre), Othello (Riverside Studios), Bitter Lemons (Pleasance & Bristol Old Vic), Polko (Paines Plough), and Earshot (UK tour). Other credits include Amélie the Musical (Criterion Theatre), Brilliant Jerks (Southwark Playhouse), A Hundred Words for Snow (Trafalgar Studios, UK Tour & VAULT Festival), and the original production of ANNA X by Joseph Charlton. Projects in development include Attrition by Tatty Hennessy, a commission as part of the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain New Play Scheme. She sits on the board of Get Into Theatre and Mercury Musical Developments.
Glynis Hall formed Glynis Henderson Productions in 1990 and the company has now produced, toured and general managed over 50 productions around the world. GHP’s work has been nominated for and won a number of awards including an Olivier Award for Stomp and a nomination for Ennio Marchetto: The Living Paper Cartoon. Stomp continues to tour worldwide having visited 56 countries to date and remains one of the most successful UK touring exports. In 2017, GHP presented A Clockwork Orange in New York after a return sell-out season in London
Glynis was Associate Producer on Olivier Award-winning Life of Pi in London’s West End and Broadway; David Byrne’s Utopia; and Merrily We Roll Along on Broadway.
Currently, GHP is developing Punchdrunk’s The Lost Lending Library and the Orchestral Qawwali Project internationally, and is very proud of Dark Noon’s success at the 2023 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Olivier Award winning producer Colin Ingram has worked in the theatre industry for 27 years with some of the world’s leading producers, directors, designers and writers. He has worked nine years on Back to the Future –The Musical, developing, workshopping and producing it at Manchester Opera House and now at the Adelphi Theatre. The production won Best Musical in 2022 at the Olivier Awards, What’s On Stage Awards and Broadwayworld.com.
He thanks Glen Ballard for introducing him to ‘the Bobs’ and for them trusting him with the musical.
Colin acts as global producer on Ghost the Musical, which has been staged in 22 countries in 14 languages in over 30 productions. He lead-produced the musical in Manchester, London and Broadway where it was nominated for five Olivier Awards and three Tony Awards® and won Best Musical at the Manchester Theatre Awards.
He was Executive Producer of the Tony and Olivier-Award winning Billy Elliot the Musical in the West End and consulted on the Broadway and Australian productions.
He also lead-produced Breakfast at Tiffany’s on Broadway and twice in the West End, and on the UK tour starring Emilia Clarke (Game of Thrones), Anna Friel and Pixie Lott. It won a broadway.com award for Best Play.
He co-founded InTheatre Productions and lead-produces the new production of Grease which is playing at the Dominion Theatre this summer starring Jason Donovan and Peter Andre following two successful UK tours, and is producing a new musical based on The Time Traveller’s Wife with music by Brit Award-winner Joss Stone and Grammy®-winner Dave Stewart from Eurythmics this September at the Chester Storyhouse prior to a West End transfer.
Prior to becoming an independent producer, Colin worked for Cameron Mackintosh for six years, general-managing Les Misérables, The Phantom of the Opera, Oklahoma! (starring Hugh Jackman), The Witches of Eastwick and the Les Misérables 10th Anniversary Concert at the Royal Albert Hall.
He then joined Disney Theatrical Productions to be UK Managing Director overseeing the London office and the productions of The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast and other shows in development. Colin then joined the Old Vic as Executive Producer and produced Hamlet starring Ben Whishaw, Aladdin starring Ian McKellen, Richard II, The Philadelphia Story and National Anthems.
He then produced the Billy Joel/Twyla Tharp musical Movin’ Out in the West End, and co-produced Gone With the Wind directed by Trevor Nunn.
In 2016, Colin joined Madison Square Gardens Entertainment as Executive Vice President of Productions. At Radio City, he produced the New York Spectacular starring the Radio City Rockettes – a major undertaking involving over 350 cast, crew and musicians – and produced the 2016 Christmas Spectacular starring the Radio City Rockettes, achieving the highest revenue in its 85-year history. Colin was a non-Executive Director of the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo and proud founder of the Edinburgh University Footlights, now in its 30th year.
Eleanor Lloyd is a commercial theatre producer.
Her site-specific production of Witness For The Prosecution has been running in a specially created theatre space in London’s County Hall since 2017 and celebrated its 1,000th performance in 2023.
Other productions include A Christmas Carol adapted by and starring Mark Gatiss at Alexandra Palace Theatre, London, Constellations with four different casts in rep at the Vaudeville Theatre and new play Emilia, which transferred from Shakespeare’s Globe to the Vaudeville Theatre and won three Olivier Awards.
Others include West End transfers of Nell Gwynn, My Night with Reg and Handbagged, West End and Broadway seasons of 1984 by Duncan Macmillan and Rob Icke and UK tours of Dusty, a new musical about Dusty Springfield by Jonathan Harvey and Shakespeare in Love.
Eleanor was President of the Society of London Theatre (SOLT) from 2020 to 2024 and sits on the Boards of Stage One and Theatre 503. She received an OBE in the 2025 New Year Honours.
Hanna Osmolska is Executive Director of Simon Friend Entertainment, an independent theatre and film production company that develops, produces and manages its own productions. Notable productions include the Olivier, Tony and UKT award-winning Life of Pi and Oscar-winning The Father. Hanna’s previous employment includes Playful Productions, ETT, Mark Rubinstein Ltd, Shared Experience and Cheek by Jowl, and representing independent producers on the Stage One Apprentice Scheme and on the Old Vic New Voices TS Eliot US/UK Exchange. Hanna has also lectured at City Lit in Arts Administration.
Ramin Sabi is founder and Executive Producer at DEM Productions where he has produced and managed 20 shows including Ride, The Book Thief, Adrian Mole the Musical, and Working. His independent West End co-producing credits include The Prince of Egypt, Gypsy, Company, Nativity the Musical, Doctor Who: Time Fracture, Annie, 1984, 9 to 5, and Show Boat. Broadway credits include Company, The Ferryman, and 1984. He also chairs the board of SCRUM Theatre, sits on SOLT’s Policy and Investment Sub-Committees, and has worked as an Economist at Her Majesty’s Treasury.
Gabbie Sills is General Manager and Associate Producer at Seventh Productions under The Partnership Group, where she plays a pivotal role in developing fresh productions and leveraging the group’s acclaimed talent and IP. Beyond this, she is Producer and Director of Gabriella Sills Productions, focusing on new writing in the Off West End, and Tethered Wits, an open-air touring troupe. Her shows have won Best Production at the Off West End Awards and Scottish Theatre Awards, been nominated for The Stage Debut Awards and Off West End Awards, and received critical praise. Gabbie co-ordinates the League of Independent Producers’ Junior Membership programme for early-career producers.
Edward Snape is head of Fiery Angel, a theatrical production company that produces and manages commercial theatre in the West End and on tour throughout the United Kingdom and internationally.
Edward has co-founded a number of successful companies including The Ticketmachine Group which was sold to ATG in 2014; Fiery Dragons Ltd, a theatre production and investment company chaired by Luke Johnson; Fiery Angel Entertainment, a joint venture with Michael Stevens; Fierylight Productions, a joint venture with Limelight Productions; and The Children’s Theatre Partnership.
Current and recent productions include: Animal Farm (UK Tour), Hairspray (West End), The Good Life (UK Tour), Touching The Void (West End), The Night of the Iguana (West End), Fleabag (West End), The Son (West End), Home I’m Darling (West End and UK tour), Circus 1903 (Royal Festival Hall), Peppa Pig Live! (West End, UK tour, US tour, Australian tour), Mel Brook’s Young Frankenstein (West End), Long Day’s Journey Into Night (West End, New York, Los Angeles), Mary Stuart (West End), Guys and Dolls (Royal Albert Hall), Barry Humphries’ Weimar Cabaret (Barbican), Love From a Stranger (UK tour), The Jungle Book (UK tour), Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company inaugural season: The Winter’s Tale, Harlequinade/All On Her Own, Red Velvet, The Painkiller, Romeo and Juliet, The Entertainer (West End), Running Wild (UK tour), The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (UK tour), Goodnight Mister Tom (West End, UK tour), Our Finest Hour (UK tour), Swallows and Amazons (West End, UK tour), Ben Hur (Tricycle Theatre), The 39 Steps (West End, Broadway and presented in over 40 territories worldwide to date), To Kill a Mockingbird (UK tour, Barbican), The Scottsboro Boys (West End), The Ladykillers (West End, UK tour), Ghost Stories (West End), Ben & Holly’s Little Kingdom (UK tour).
Edward sits on the Executive Committee for The Society of London Theatre.
Based in the West Midlands, John Stalker is Executive Producer of John Stalker Productions & Music & Lyrics Ltd. John created Music & Lyrics Ltd in 2011, alongside forming his own theatre production company – John Stalker Productions. His move into executive producing came after a 29-year career leading major UK theatres, which include: The Duke’s Theatre, Lancaster, Liverpool Playhouse, Birmingham Rep and Edinburgh’s King’s and Festival Theatres.