Nicholas Newton 2

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Nicholas Newton

Nationality British Occupation Theatre, TV and audio drama producer

Spouse(s) Selinda Slingsby (1979-1983) Caroline Elizabeth Oliphant White (1989-present, 2 children Matthew and Jack)

Career

Nicholas Newton Nationality British Occupation Theatre, TV and audio drama producer

Spouse(s) Selinda Slingsby (1979-1983) Caroline Elizabeth Oliphant White (1989-present, 2 children Matthew and Jack)

Nicholas Newton is a theatre, television and audio drama producer, son of stage and film star Robert Newton and grandson of Algernon Newton RA. In 1972 he co-founded the Bush Theatre London, the home of new writing in the UK. In 1975 he worked for West End producers, Michael White and HM Tennent. In the late 1970s he started producing in London’s West End, first with the Anita Loos adaptation of Colette’s Gigi at the Fortune Theatre in 1976, followed by Dylan Thomas’ Under Milk Wood. At the beginning of the 1980s he joined the management of the Royal National Theatre as Special Projects Executive where he managed the television co-productions of the National Theatre’s repertoire including *The Oresteia*, On the Razzle by Tom Stoppard, The Beggars Opera and *The Mystery Plays* for Channel 4 Television, the BBC and Time Warner working with all the directors, in particular Sir Peter Hall, Bill Bryden and Sir Richard Eyre. He established the Royal National Theatre’s Development Council, the charitable fundraising arm of the National Theatre.

In 1994, he formed Promenade Productions with Bill Bryden and produced the promenade production of *The Big Picnic* at the Harland and Wolff Shed, Govan, which he also produced for BBC Television. He has continued to produce theatre in the West End, including the award-winning production of Tennessee Williams’ *Baby Doll* at the Noel Coward Theatre. He was a co-producer of the Lincoln Center’s production of South Pacific which opened at the Barbican Theatre in 2011 and toured the UK throughout 2012. In 2013 he co-produced The Pirates of Penzance with Scottish Opera and D’Oyly Carte Opera Company which toured major UK provincial theatres.

Since 1997 he has produced over 40 dramas for BBC Radio. In 2021 he produced the drama and podcast series *Nuremberg: The Trial of the Nazi War Criminals* for BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds which has had over 3 million downloads in the UK alone.

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