Olivier Award winning producer Colin Ingram has worked in the theatre industry for over 25 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 in London, the Winter Garden Theater in New York and across multiple markets on a North American Tour. The production won Best Musical in 2022 at the Olivier Awards, WhatsOnStage Awards and Broadway World Awards. 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.
