He writes songs, runs the Orpheus Trust and is involved in music education – most recently the Stilgoe Family Concerts (Royal Festival Hall) and the National Foundation for Youth Music. Richard Stilgoe lives in Surrey (where he was born) and has five children and two grandchildren. His bestselling autobiography Unmasked was published by HarperCollins in March 2018.
He is passionate about the importance of music in education and the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation has become one of Britain’s leading charities supporting the arts and music. He was knighted by Her Majesty The Queen in 1992 and created a life peer in 1997. He owns seven London theatres including the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane and the London Palladium. His awards, both as composer and producer, include seven Tonys, the 2018 Special Tony for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, seven Oliviers, a Golden Globe, an Oscar, the Praemium Imperiale, the Richard Rodgers Award for Excellence in Musical Theatre, the Kennedy Center Honor and a Grammy for Best Contemporary Classical Composition for Requiem which contains one of his best-known compositions, “Pie Jesu.” His production of School of Rock is the first British musical to have world premiered on Broadway. Music Theatre International, the world’s largest owner of secondary rights of many of the greatest musicals ever written, is now one of Cameron’s companies.Ĭomposer of some of the world’s best-known musicals including Cats, Evita, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar, The Phantom of the Opera and Sunset Boulevard.
Cameron was knighted in 1996 recently was the first British producer to be elected to the Theater Hall of Fame and is the recipient of the 2017 Stephen Sondheim Award. He owns eight London theatres including the Victoria Palace which, after a spectacular refurbishment, is now home to the award-winning musical Hamilton, co-produced with Jeffrey Seller. In 2013, in conjunction with Working Title Films and Universal, Cameron produced the Oscar, Golden Globe and BAFTA award-winning film of Les Misérables. Cameron enjoys producing new versions of classic musicals such as Oliver!, My Fair Lady, Oklahoma!, Carousel, Follies and most recently, his newly rewritten version of Half A Sixpence. while his co-production with Disney of Mary Poppins returns to London’s West End in 2019. His acclaimed new production of Miss Saigon is now touring North America and the U.K.
Cameron Mackintosh has produced the three longest-running musicals in history: Les Misérables, The Phantom of the Opera and CATS.
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