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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, including The Phantom of the Opera, Cats and Les Misérables, alongside Miss Saigon, Mary Poppins (Disney), Little Shop of Horrors, and Hamilton in the UK, which he co-produces with Jeffrey Seller. Cameron has created three musical revues with Stephen Sondheim, including Side by Side by Sondheim, Putting It Together and most recently the hugely acclaimed Old Friends, starring Broadway 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 playing in the West End.
In 2012 Cameron produced the 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. He also produced the spectacular 25th Anniversary Concert of The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall, which is still continually screened on television and in cinemas throughout the world.
Cameron owns and operates eight historic London theatres, which have all been spectacularly rebuilt and refurbished for the 21st century. The Sondheim, formerly known as the Queen’s, has been renamed in honour of Cameron’s great friend, theatrical legend Stephen Sondheim.
Music Theatre International (MTI) has been one of Cameron’s companies for over 30 years, representing one of the world’s oldest and largest libraries of secondary rights for many of the greatest musicals ever written, whilst also championing exciting new contemporary writers.
In 1990, Cameron inaugurated the Chair of Contemporary Theatre at St Catherine’s College, Oxford University, with Stephen Sondheim as its first visiting professor. The Professorship is now in its 35th 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 became the first British producer ever to be elected to Broadway’s Theater Hall of Fame.
