About

Aria Entertainment was founded in 2012 by award-winning Producer Katy Lipson. In 12 years, she has produced over 80 productions in the West End, Off-West End, and on UK Tours.  

Recent West End credits include: Brokeback Mountain (World Premiere, Nimax’s newest West End theatre, Soho Place); Cruise (Olivier nomination for Best New Play at the Duchess Theatre and Apollo Theatre) and the critically acclaimed transfer of The Last Five Years (Garrick Theatre).  

UK Tour producing and co-producing credits include: The Osmonds, The Cher Show, Hair, The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, Here and Now The Steps Musical and two National Tours of The Addams Family.  

Recent London productions include Zorro, From Here to Eternity, Broken Wings, Flowers For Mrs Harris, Little Women and Rags.  

Several of these shows have since been produced internationally, including The Addams Family (Singapore); Hair (Germany); The Last Five Years (China and Taiwan); Zorro (South Korea) and Cruise (International). Katy’s productions of The Toxic Avenger, The Last 5 Years and Little Women are available for streaming on the platform Broadway HD.  

For several years, Katy was the Producing Artistic Director of the renowned Hope Mill Theatre in Manchester, creating and producing shows, many of which transferred to London. During her tenure from 2016 to 2019, she worked with Stephen Schwartz on creating a re-imagined version of Rags and presented the first UK production for over 50 years of Jerry Herman’s Mame. Other notable titles included European or Northern Premieres of Pippin, Parade, Little Women and Yank! 

In 2017, Lipson was awarded the Best Producer award by the Off-West End Awards and in 2019 was nominated for International Producer of the Year by the League of Professional Theatre Women in New York. She is a recipient of the Stage One Bursary and Start-Up Award and works as a mentor on their Bursary and Bridge the Gap programmes. In 2018, 2019 and 2020 she was included in The Stage 100 list for her work at Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester, and in 2021 for her work as a solo producer. Her productions of Hair, Spring Awakening and Flowers For Mrs Harris have all won Whats On Stage Awards.  

Lipson is at the forefront of new musical development in the UK, having set up the From Page to Stage Festival to support new musicals. Between the years 2013–2017, From Page to Stage gave a platform to over 100 new musicals, many of which have gone on to have full productions and be licensed worldwide. It is a keen passion of hers to cultivate new musicals that can have a long-lasting legacy in the West End, on Broadway, and all around the world.  

Recent and upcoming productions include: The Addams Family In Concert, starring Michelle Visage and Ramin Karimloo (London Palladium) and upcoming 2025 UK Tour; Pippin – 50th Anniversary Concert, starring Tony Award Winner Alex Newell (Theatre Royal Drury Lane) and KENREX.  

Company Director: Katy Lipson  

General Manager: Kristie Winsen  

Production Assistant: Ylan Assefy-Waterdrinker 

Literary Manager : Tom Ramsey 

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