1. Stephen Waley-Cohen manages the St Martin's Theatre in London's West End and is the current producer of the world's longest running play The Mousetrap.
16 Facts About Stephen Waley-Cohen
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Stephen Waley-Cohen was Chairman of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art Council.
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Stephen Waley-Cohen has been a theatre owner and manager since 1984 when he was Joint Chief Executive of Maybox Group, which managed the Albery, Criterion, Donmar Warehouse, Piccadilly, Whitehall and Wyndham's theatres, until it was sold in 1989.
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Stephen Waley-Cohen managed the Vaudeville Theatre from 1996 to 2001 and the Savoy from 1997 to 2005.
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Stephen Waley-Cohen became the producer of The Mousetrap in 1994.
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Stephen Waley-Cohen said, "When [Saunders] wanted to retire at the age of 80, he picked up the phone to me".
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Mousetrap Productions, of which Stephen Waley-Cohen is the sole director, is licensed to produce the play by Mathew Prichard, Agatha Christie's grandson, to whom she gave the rights to The Mousetrap when he was nine.
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In 1997, Stephen Waley-Cohen launched the education charity, Mousetrap Theatre Projects.
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Stephen Waley-Cohen stood unsuccessfully as the Conservative candidate in both the General Elections in 1974 for the Manchester Gorton constituency.
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Stephen Waley-Cohen was Chairman of the RADA Council until 2021, and Chairman of RADA's Development Board.
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Stephen Waley-Cohen was President of the Society of London Theatre from 2002 to 2005, having been a member since 1984 and a board member since 1993.
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Stephen Waley-Cohen was a Trustee of The Theatres Trust from 1998 to 2004.
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Stephen Waley-Cohen is President of the JCA Charitable Foundation, which supports projects for education, agriculture and tourism in rural areas of Israel such as Galilee and the Negev.
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Stephen Waley-Cohen was chairman of the British-American Project executive committee from 1989 to 92, and continued to have a role in its subsequent development.
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Stephen Waley-Cohen is currently a trustee of the Campaign for the Arts.
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Stephen Waley-Cohen has three children by his first marriage to Pamela Doniger, and two with American sculptor Josie Spencer.