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. Her most recent West End credits include the World Premiere of Brokeback Mountain at @Soho Place; Cruise, which received an Olivier nomination for Best New Play, and the critically acclaimed transfer of The Last Five Years to the Garrick Theatre. Earlier this year, she produced sold-out West End concerts of The Addams Family starring Michelle Visage and Ramin Karimloo, and Pippin starring Tony-winner Alex Newell, and is a co-producer on Here and Now, based on the music of Steps. KENREX, the next play from the creators of Cruise opens this year in a co-production between Aria Entertainment and Sheffield Theatres.

She also produced or co-produced several major UK Tours including The Osmonds, The Cher Show, Hair, The Rise and Fall of Little Voice and The Addams Family. Several of these productions have since been produced internationally, including The Addams Family in Singapore, Hair in Germany, The Last Five Years in China and Taiwan and Zorro in Korea.

For several years, Katy was the Producing Artistic Director of the renowned Hope Mill Theatre in Manchester, creating and producing productions, many of which transferred to London. During her tenure 2016-2019 she worked with Stephen Schwartz on creating a re-imagined version of Rags and presented the first production of Jerry Herman’s Mame in the UK for over 50 years.

Other notable titles included European or Northern premieres of Pippin, Parade, Little Women and Yank amongst others. 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 she was included in “The Stage 100” list and in 2019 and 2020 for her work at Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester and again in 2021 for her work as a solo producer.