Our Trustees
Biographies of the Mousetrap Theatre Projects Board can be read here...
Lord Attenborough CBE
Lord Attenborough has a distinguished career as an actor, film producer and director. He is President of BAFTA, RADA, The Foundation for Sports and the Arts, The National Film School and Capital Radio. He is also Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF and has been a board member of many organisations and committees to assist theatres, cinema, the disabled and artists in need. Lord Attenborough has a significant association with Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap, having starred with his wife, Sheila Sim, in the original London cast for two years when it opened in 1952.
Mary Fulton
Mary Fulton ran for twenty years the arts and media PR company, Town House Publicity. THP represented a host of blue chip companies, arts organisations and theatre producers. She now works as an arts and media PR and event consultant. Her volunteer commitments include working in Pentonville Prison and serving as Chair of Governors at her local primary school in Hackney.
Rosie Hytner
A graduate of Cambridge University, with a degree in Drama and Education, Rosie began her career in public relations with the CMT group leaving after after ten years as an Associate Director, gaining a broad base of experience in consumer PR. In 1991 Rosie founded Hytner Anderson Public Relations with her business partner Debbie Anderson and ran a range of campaigns, becoming well known for its critics management expertise. Rosie is now writing a children's book and attends the theatre at least once a week, believing passionately that all young people should have the opportunity to experience the magical world of 'The Arts'.
Phyllida Lloyd
Phyllida Lloyd's prolific directing career includes one of the West End's buggest success stories of recent years, Mamma Mia! She directed Janet McTeer and Harriet Walter in the much-lauded Mary Stuart, which transferred from a sell-out run at the Donmar Warehouse to the Apollo. She's worked as the National, RSC, Royal Court and Shakespeare's Globe; and in opera at the ENO, the Royal Opera House, Paris and Barcelona. Phyllida Lloyd recently held the chair of Cameron Mackintosh Visiting Professor of Contemporary Theatre at St Catherine's College, Oxford. She has recently completed filming for the upcoming cinematic release of Mamma Mia! due in cinemas this summer.
Mathew Prichard CBE
Mathew Prichard CBE is the grandson of Agatha Christie and Chairman of Agatha Christie Ltd. He is a former President of the National Museum of Wales and a former Chairman of the Welsh Arts Council. He is also a trustee of the Colwinston Charitable Trust, which provides funding for arts organisations primarily in Wales, but also elsewhere.
Mark Rubenstein
Mark Rubenstein is a producer and general manager and has produced and/or general managed a huge range of West End productions over the past six years. Recent projects include The Magic Flute (Duke of York's), Desperately Seeking Susan (Novello), Glengarry Glen Ross (Apollo), Herge's Adventures of Tintin (UK Tour/Playhouse) and The Drowsy Chaperone (Novello). Mark has also been producer for Made in Brighton Ltd. and Old Vic Productions plc. and was a consultant for The Old Vic. For six years he was Finance Director of the Royal Court and general managed several successful transfers of plays to the West End. He was also General Manager of the Institute of Contemporary Arts before becoming Senior Producer for Bill Kenwright Ltd. Mark is also a member of the Board of Management of the Society of London Theatre and a board member of Complicite and Stage One.
Jill Shaw Ruddock
Jill Shaw Ruddock is a graduate of Bowdoin College, Maine, where she also served as a Trustee from 1991-2001. After a career in marketing and media in Boston and New York City, she moved to London and became director of The Government Research Company. Jill worked for Alex Brown and Sons for fourteen years, where she became Managing Director. She is on the main board of the Donmar Warehouse, and from 2003-2006 chaired its Development Board. Jill is a patron of the Royal National Theatre, the Almedia and Salder's Wells and is on the Board of the American School in London.
Sir Stephen Waley-Cohen Bt. (Chairman)
Sir Stephen initiated The Mousetrap Foundation (now Mousetrap Theatre Projects) in 1997. He has been a theatre owner and manager since 1984 when he was joint Chief Executive of Maybox Group which he sold in 1989, the year he became Director of the Victoria Palace Theatre. In 1994, Sir Stephen became the producer of The Mousetrap. Since then he has taken on the management of the St Martin's Theatre and in April 2007 purchased the Ambassadors Theatre, the sister theatre to the St Martin's and original home of The Mousetrap. In 1993, he was elected to the Board of the Society of London Theatre. the industry's trade association, and served as President from 2002-2005. He is presently Vice-President. Sir Stephen was a Trustee of the Theatres Trust from 1998-2004 and became Chairman of RADA, The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, in 2007.
Lord Willoughby de Broke
Lord Willoughby de Broke, whose family built and still own the St Martin's Theatre, where The Mousetrap is playing, is an active member of the House of Lords. He is also an Honorary Governor of the Royal Shakespeare Company and President of the Warwickshire branch of the Campaign for the Protection of Rural England. He lives and farms in Warwickshire.
Carole Winter
Carole Winter is a producer for MJE Productions, who recently produced the Olivier Award winning play Blackbird, The Dumb Waiter and In Celebration. She has recently produced Herge's Adventures of Tintin both on tour and in the West End. Carole worked for ten years at the National Theatre, helping to develop its Education Department. She also set up the Eduation Department for the English Shakespeare Company. She later headed the development team which raised £1.2m to help create the new Soho Theatre and Writers' Centre.