Cameron Mackintosh has been producing shows for more than 40 years, during which time he has put on hundreds of productions around the world including: Cats, Les Misérables, The Phantom of the Opera - the three longest-running musicals of all time - and Miss Saigon. He has also produced Little Shop of Horrors, Side by Side by Sondheim, Follies, Martin Guerre, The Witches of Eastwick and acclaimed revivals of My Fair Lady, Oklahoma! and his latest spectacular production of Oliver!, which is breaking all box office records at London’s legendary Theatre Royal Drury Lane. His recent musical co-produced with Disney, Mary Poppins (a subject that he has wanted to do for over 30 years), has been an enormous success in London, on Broadway and US national tour, as well as productions opening in Australia, Budapest, Copenhagen and Holland in 2010. Phantom is now the longest-running production in Broadway history, and in 2006 Les Misérables overtook the previous record holder, Cats, to become the longest running musical in the world and is now in its twenty-fifth year at the Queen’s Theatre in London. Les Misérables is being performed and is continually opening all over the world, and a new international touring production has just opened to great acclaim in the UK, followed by a USA tour in 2010. Miss Saigon, in a new production, is a success all over again, with several international companies opening around the world. In London he is also producing the Tony Award-winning musicals Avenue Q and Hair. Cameron owns seven theatres in London’s West End - the Prince of Wales, Gielgud, Queen’s,Wyndham’s, Noël Coward, Novello and Prince Edward, nearly all of which have undergone spectacular refurbishment. In 1995 his company received the Queen’s Award for Export Achievement and he was knighted in the 1996 New Year’s Honours for his services to British theatre. He is President of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and in 1990 he endowed the Chair of Contemporary Theatre for a Visiting Professor (currently Kevin Spacey) at St Catherine’s College, Oxford, where he is also an honorary fellow and member of the Court of Benefactors. In 2006 he received the national Enjoy England Award for Excellence for his Outstanding Contribution to Tourism.