About Us.
Matthew Byam Shaw, Nia Janis and Nick Salmon created Playful Productions in the Spring of 2010 and have worked together for over ten years.
Playful’s productions include: Enron (Noël Coward), Red (Broadway), Krapp’s Last Tape (Duchess), Yes, Prime Minister (Gielgud, UK tour and Apollo), Flare Path (Theatre Royal Haymarket), The King’s Speech (UK tour and Wyndham’s), Hay Fever (Noël Coward), Sweeney Todd (Adelphi) and South Downs/The Browning Version (Harold Pinter). As General Manager productions include: Wicked (Apollo Victoria), Dirty Dancing (Aldwych and UK tour), Shrek The Musical (Theatre Royal Drury Lane), Million Dollar Quartet (Noël Coward) and Clybourne Park (Wyndham’s).
Prior to Playful, Matthew, Nia and Nick’s productions include: Legally Blonde The Musical (Savoy), Hamlet (Broadway), Spring Awakening (Lyric Hammersmith and Novello), Mary Stuart (Apollo and Broadway), Don Carlos (Gielgud), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Roundhouse, UK tour, US tour and Australia tour), Sinatra at the London Palladium (London Palladium and UK tour), Edward Scissorhands (Sadler’s Wells, UK tour, Japan, Korea and US tour), Humble Boy (Gielgud, UK tour and MTC), Anything Goes (Theatre Royal Drury Lane), Boeing-Boeing (Comedy, UK tour and Broadway) and Frost/Nixon (Gielgud and Broadway).