producers
Michael Edwards & Carole Winter
Current credits include: Ruby Wax: Losing It (national tour) directed by Thea Sharrock.
Recent credits include: Midsummer (Soho Theatre) by David Greig ; Morecambe (Duchess) directed by Guy Masterson, with Bob Golding (2010 Olivier Award for Best Entertainment); Carousel (Savoy) directed by Lindsay Posner, with Lesley Garrett; Exit the King (Barrymore Theatre, New York) with Geoffrey Rush and Susan Sarandon (2009 Tony Award for Best Actor); On the Waterfront (Theatre Royal, Haymarket) directed by and starring Steven Berkoff; Entertaining Mr Sloane (Trafalgar Studios) directed by Nick Bagnall with Imelda Staunton and Mathew Horne; Damascus (Tricycle and international tour) directed by Philip Howard; Horrid Henry – Live and Horrid! (Trafalgar Studios) directed by Hannah Chissick; Six Characters in Search of an Author (Gielgud) directed by Rupert Goold, with Ian McDiarmid; On the Waterfront (Edinburgh Festival) directed by Steven Berkoff; David Harrower's Blackbird (UK tour) directed by David Grindley, with Robert Daws and Dawn Steele; Hergé’s Adventures of Tintin (Playhouse/UK tour) directed by Rufus Norris; In Celebration (Duke of York's) directed by Anna Mackmin, with Orlando Bloom and Tim Healy; The Dumb Waiter (Trafalgar Studios) directed by Harry Burton, with Lee Evans and Jason Isaacs; Underneath the Lintel (Duchess) with Richard Schiff; The Flags (Andrews Lane Theatre, Dublin); Blackbird (Albery), directed by Peter Stein, with Roger Allam and Jodhi May (2006 Olivier Award for Best New Play), followed by a co-production with Manhattan Theatre Club on Broadway where Jo Mantello directed Jeff Daniels and Alison Pill; Twelve Angry Men (Comedy) directed by Harold Pinter, with Kevin Whately and Timothy West.
Michael Edwards has also produced a large scale touring production of Macbeth (UK, Calcutta, Delhi, Beijing) and several tours to major open air Shakespeare Festivals in America, including a production of Julius Caesar in repertory with Houston Ballet’s Romeo & Juliet at the 13,000 capacity Woods-Mitchell Pavilion in Houston. He worked for six years with the English Shakespeare Company, collaborating with Michael Bogdanov and Michael Pennington on several UK touring productions including The Comedy of Errors which travelled on to Jerusalem, Moscow and Kiev.
Carole Winter worked at the National Theatre for ten years during which time she produced several small scale tours, including the first education tour of The Caucasian Chalk Circle directed by Michael Bogdanov. In 1989 she produced the first Lloyds Bank Theatre Challenge in the Olivier Theatre.
In 1990, Carole set up the Education department for the English Shakespeare Company and built an extensive programme of work that visited schools, colleges, prisons, regional theatres across the UK and international tours to India, Africa, USA, Germany and Beirut. Productions included God Say Amen, Enemy to the People, Macbeth, The Tempest (Maidstone Prison) and The Fantastical Legend of Dr Faust.
In 1996, Carole headed the development team to raise £1.2m to create the new Soho Theatre and Writers’ Centre. From 2002-2005, Carole managed the Artist Liaison Team for Comic Relief covering two Red Nose Days, Sport Relief and Live 8 at Murrayfield. Carole is a Trustee of Mousetrap Theatre Projects and a Council Member of Stage One.