Cameron Mackintosh
Cameron Mackintosh has been producing shows since 1967 and remains the world’s most prolific producer of musicals in theatre history.
Cameron Mackintosh has been working in the theatre for almost 60 years and is the producer of several of the most legendary musicals of all time: Les Misérables, Phantom of the Opera and Cats, three of the world’s longest running, alongside the perennial Miss Saigon, Mary Poppins (co-produced with Disney), Little Shop of Horrors, and Hamilton in the UK, which he co-produces with Jeffrey Seller. With Stephen Sondheim, Cameron has created three musical revues: Side by Side by Sondheim, Putting it Together and the hugely acclaimed Old Friends, starring theatrical legends Bernadette Peters and Lea Salonga in the West End and on Broadway.
Cameron and Director Matthew Bourne’s newly reimagined production of Oliver! is currently in its glorious 2nd year at the Gielgud Theatre, playing to sellout audiences and rave reviews in the West End.
To celebrate Les Misérables’ world record breaking continuous run of over 40 years, the Arena Spectacular Concert version of Les Misérables played an extensive World Tour (a first for any musical on this scale) with an all-star cast of Les Mis alumni. The tour concluded with a return to the Royal Albert Hall, the first since the iconic Les Mis 10th Anniversary Concert, and a sensational run at the legendary Radio City Music Hall in New York City. Previous filmed concerts at the Royal Albert Hall, the O2 Arena and the Gielgud Theatre, are still continually screened on television and in cinemas throughout the world, alongside Cameron’s spectacular 25th
Anniversary Concert of Phantom of the Opera, also at the Royal Albert Hall.
In 2012, alongside Working Title Films and Universal, Cameron produced the hugely successful Oscar®, Golden Globe and BAFTA award-winning film adaptation of Les Misérables, which is one of the most successful movies ever of an original stage musical.
Cameron owns and operates eight historic London theatres, which have all been spectacularly rebuilt and refurbished for the 21st century. They house many of London’s most successful hits. The Sondheim Theatre, formerly known as the Queen’s, was renamed in 2019 in honour of Cameron’s great friend, theatrical legend Stephen Sondheim.
Music Theatre International, one of the world’s oldest and largest libraries of secondary rights of many of the greatest musicals ever written, has been one of Cameron’s companies for over 30 years. MTI represents and champions both exciting new contemporary writers as well as the great classics and proudly represents the second-class rights for Disney Theatrical.
In 1990, Cameron inaugurated the Chair of Contemporary Theatre at St Catherine’s College in Oxford University, with Stephen Sondheim as his first visiting professor. The Professorship is now in its 36th year.
Cameron was knighted in the 1996 New Year’s Honours for his services to British theatre and in June 2023, was awarded the Freedom of the City of London. In 2014, he was the first British producer ever to be elected to Broadway’s Theater Hall of Fame.
