About

Founded in 2012 by award-winning producer Katy Lipson, Aria Entertainment has staged over 120 productions in the West End, Off-West End, and on UK tours.

Her production of KENREX: A True Crime Thriller was the most Olivier Award-nominated new British play of the 2025–26 season, earning six nominations including Best New Play, and winning two Olivier Awards: Best Actor for Jack Holden and Best Sound Design for Giles Thomas.

West End credits include: KENREX (The Other Palace); Hot Mess (The Other Palace); Brokeback Mountain (World Premiere, @sohoplace); Cruise (Olivier-nominated for Best New Play, Duchess Theatre & Apollo Theatre) and the critically acclaimed transfer of The Last Five Years (Garrick Theatre).

UK tours 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, with international productions of The Addams Family (Singapore); Hair (Germany); The Last Five Years (China & Taiwan); Zorro (South Korea); and Cruise (International). Several productions (The Toxic Avenger, The Last Five Years, Little Women & Pippin) are available on Broadway HD.

From 2016 to 2019, Lipson served as Producing Artistic Director at Hope Mill Theatre in Manchester, where she led European and Northern premieres of Pippin, Parade, Little Women, Yank!, and the first UK production in over 50 years of Jerry Herman’s Mame. She also worked with Stephen Schwartz to reimagine Rags.

Lipson has been recognized with the Off-West End Award for Best Producer (2017) and a nomination for International Producer of the Year by the League of Professional Theatre Women (2019). She is a recipient of the Stage One Bursary and Start-Up Award and mentors on Stage One’s Bursary and Bridge the Gap programmes. She has appeared on The Stage 100 list multiple times for her contributions to UK theatre. Her productions of Hair, Spring Awakening, and Flowers for Mrs Harris have all won WhatsOnStage Awards.

From 2016 to 2019, Katy was Producing Artistic Director at Hope Mill Theatre, leading premieres of Pippin, Parade, Little Women, Yank!, Mame, and Rags.

Katy is proud to be the vice president of new theatrical production and development company TRW Production which a portfolio of over 10 projects currently in development: www.trwproduction.com

Recent work includes The Addams Family in Concert (London Palladium), Pippin; 50th Anniversary Concert (Theatre Royal Drury Lane), Hot Mess (The Other Palace, Southwark Playhouse), Ballad Lines (Southwark Playhouse), and multiple runs of KENREX: A True Crime Thriller (Sheffield Theatres, Southwark Playhouse, and The Other Palace) and most recently Off-Broadway (Lucille Lortel Theatre).

Company Director: Katy Lipson
Assistant Producer: Ylan Assefy-Waterdrinker
Literary Manager: Tom Ramsay

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