Colin Callender

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Sir Colin Callender
CBE
BornMay 1952 (age 72)
Alma mater University of East Anglia
Occupation(s)Film executive and executive producer
SpouseElizabeth Gaine
Children3

Sir Colin Nigel Callender CBE (born May 1952) is a British television, film and theater producer. He is the CEO at Playground Entertainment, a production company with offices in New York and London.

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Early life and education

Callender was born to an Orthodox Jewish family [1] in London, the son of Lydia and Martin Callender. [2] He has a brother, Neeman, and a sister, Claire. [2] Callender holds a BA with Honours in Philosophy and Politics from the University of East Anglia. [3]

Career

Early career

Callender started in the entertainment industry as a member of Britain's National Youth Theatre and began his production career in 1974 at the Royal Court Theatre in London as stage manager working with directors such as Mike Leigh, David Hare and Sam Shepard. [4] Later he joined Granada Television as a graduate trainee where he worked on Cat on a Hot Tin Roof the Granada co-production with NBC starring Natalie Wood, Robert Wagner and Laurence Olivier.

Primetime Television

In 1978 Callender founded Primetime Television where he quickly established himself as one of the UK's leading television and film producers. [3] At Primetime he pioneered the pre-selling and co-producing of UK drama with foreign broadcasters. When the UK's fourth network Channel Four was created, Primetime was the first independent production company to be commissioned by the new channel with the television adaptation of the RSC's groundbreaking nine-hour stage play The Life And Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby . It was Callender's first credit as a producer and he went on to win the Emmy Award for Outstanding Miniseries in a category that included other nominees The Winds of War and The Thorn Birds. [5]

Other Primetime productions included D.H.Lawrence's The Captain's Doll starring Jeremy Irons for the BBC and ARD Germany, Separate Tables starring Alan Bates and Julie Christie directed by John Schlesinger. [6]

The Callender Company

He later created The Callender Company and during this time, with productions like Peter Greenway's The Belly of an Architect which was the official British entry to the 1986 Cannes Film Festival, John Schlesinger's Madame Sousatzka starring Shirley MacLaine; The Bretts a 13-hour mini-series for Masterpiece Theatre, Prisoner of Honour starring Richard Dreyfuss and Mr. Halpern And Mr. Johnson starring Laurence Olivier and Jackie Gleeson, Callender was in the forefront of bringing together talent from the UK and the U.S., which has gone on to become one of the hallmarks of his career. [6]

During this time Callender also created and produced the British cult hit The Last Resort which changed the face of late night television in the UK and launched the career of British TV personality Jonathan Ross. [7]

HBO

In 1987, Callender moved to the U.S. to become executive producer of HBO's newly formed East Coast production unit. [8] HBO Showcase produced 27 films receiving widespread critical acclaim and earning HBO its first Emmy Award for drama. In 1996 Callender and HBO CEO Jeffrey Bewkes created the film division HBO NYC. Shortly thereafter he was appointed president of HBO Films, based in LA, which rapidly developed a reputation for consistently producing an award-winning slate of sophisticated and provocative television and feature films.

During his tenure Callender oversaw the production of over 115 award-winning movies and mini-series, among them: [9]

Callender was also responsible for HBO's theatrical films such as the breakout indie hit My Big Fat Greek Wedding and Gus Van Sant's provocative movie Elephant about a Columbine like high-school shooting which won him the Best Director Award as well as the coveted Palm d'Or at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival. [14]

Under Callender's stewardship, HBO Films received:

Picturehouse

Callender was also the driving force behind HBO's joint venture with New Line Cinema – the distribution company Picturehouse [15] whose slate included Robert Altman's highly acclaimed Prairie Home Companion , Kit Kittredge: An American Girl , Run Fatboy Run, Rocket Science, Last Days, Mary Harron's The Notorious Bettie Page, JA Bayona's The Orphanage, Olivier Dahan's La Vie en Rose f or which Marion Cotillard won the Academy Award for Best Actress, [16] and Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth t hat won three Oscars at the 2006 Academy Awards. [17]

Playground

In 2009, Callender left HBO Films and moved to New York to produce theatre. He founded Playground in 2012. [18]

Theatre

Playground's first stage production was Lucky Guy starring Tom Hanks by the late Nora Ephron, which tells the story of tabloid reporter Mike McAlary, winner of a 1998 Pulitzer Prize. [19] It won two Tony Awards and had six nominations. [20] In 2014, Callender produced Harvey Fierstein's Casa Valentina , which was nominated for four Tony Awards including Best Play, [21] and Hedwig and the Angry Inch starring Neil Patrick Harris, which won four Tony Awards including Best Revival of a Musical. [22] Callender also produced the production of Kenneth Branagh's New York stage debut in Macbeth at the Park Avenue Armory, [23] and was a co-producer of Jez Butterworth's The River starring Hugh Jackman. [24]

Recent Broadway productions include Dear Evan Hansen , which won six Tony Awards including Best Musical, [25] and Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan's 1984 , based on the novel by George Orwell. [26] Recent West End productions include Dreamgirls and The Glass Menagerie , both produced alongside Sonia Friedman Productions. [27]

Alongside Sonia Friedman Productions and Harry Potter Theatrical Productions, Callender is one of the producers of the two-part stage play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child , an expansion of the Harry Potter franchise, which opened on 30 July 2016 in London's Palace Theatre. [28] In 2017, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child won nine Olivier Awards, the biggest single win ever for one production in the history of the awards. [29] Harry Potter and the Cursed Child opened on Broadway on 22 April 2018 in the newly renovated Lyric Theatre and was nominated for ten Tony Awards and went on to win six, including Best Play. [30] Harry Potter and the Cursed Child opened in Melbourne's Princess Theatre in early 2019, [31] in San Francisco's Curran Theatre in the Fall of 2019, [32] in Hamburg's Mehr! Theatre in 2020, [33] in Toronto's CAA Ed Mirvish Theatre in 2022, and in Tokyo's TBS Akasaka Act Theatre in 2022.

Television

Playground company has produced over 90 hours of television since inception. Series include the Golden Globe and Emmy nominated miniseries Dancing on the Edge for BBC and Starz, [34] the Golden Globe and Emmy nominated miniseries The White Queen [35] for BBC and Starz and its sequel The White Princess for Starz, the Golden Globe nominated anthology series The Missing for BBC and Starz, Dracula for NBC, [36] Wolf Hall , [37] a Golden Globe and BAFTA-winning six-part miniseries starring Mark Rylance, Damian Lewis and Claire Foy for BBC and Masterpiece, which was an adaptation of Hilary Mantel's Booker prize winning novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies , and The Dresser , [38] a television adaptation of Ronald Harwood's classic play starring Ian McKellen and Anthony Hopkins for BBC and Starz. [39]

In 2017, Callender produced Academy Award winner Kenneth Lonergan's adaptation of Howards End for the BBC and Starz, Heidi Thomas's adaptation of Little Women for the BBC and Masterpiece, and Richard Eyre's adaptation of King Lear starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson for the BBC and Amazon Prime Video. [40]

Callender produced Lucy Kirkwood's adaptation of her play Chimerica for Channel 4, [41] and The Spanish Princess , a sequel to The White Queen and The White Princess, for Starz. [42]

Callender currently produces the hit adaptation of James Herriot's All Creatures Great and Small for Channel 5 and Masterpiece on PBS, [43] Peter Kosminsky's The Undeclared War starring Simon Pegg, Hannah Khalique-Brown, Adrian Lester and Mark Rylance for Channel 4 and Peacock, [44] and a reimagining of the classic novel Dangerous Liaisons for Starz. [45]

Credits

Primetime Television

Television

The Callender Company

Television

  • Prisoner of Honour (1991)
  • The Last Resort with Jonathan Ross (1987–1997)
  • The Bretts (1987)
  • Timeslip (1985)
  • White City (1985)
  • Arch of Triumph (1984)
  • Scrabble (1984–1985)

Feature films

HBO

Television Films

Television Miniseries

Feature Films

Playground

Television

Theater

Awards and nominations

YearAwardCategoryNominated WorkResult
1983 Primetime Emmy Award Outstanding Limited Series The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby Won
2002 Writers Guild of America Awards Evelyn F. Burkey AwardColin CallenderWon
2003 Anti-Defamation League Humanitarian AwardColin CallenderWon
2003 Creative Coalition Visionary AwardColin CallenderWon
2006 Geffen Playhouse Distinction in Theater AwardColin CallenderWon
2006 Jacob Burns Film Center Vision AwardColin CallenderWon
2006 Humanitas Prize Kiezer AwardColin CallenderWon
2013 Tony Award Best PlayLucky GuyNominated
2013 Satellite Award Best Miniseries or Television Film The White Queen Nominated
2013Satellite AwardBest Miniseries or Television Film Dancing on the Edge Won
2013 Golden Globe Award Best Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for TelevisionDancing on the EdgeNominated
2013Golden Globe AwardBest Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for TelevisionThe White QueenNominated
2014Golden Globe AwardBest Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television The Missing Nominated
2014 Drama League Award Outstanding Production of a Broadway or Off-Broadway PlayLucky GuyNominated
2014Drama League AwardOutstanding Production of a Broadway or Off-Broadway PlayCasa ValentinaNominated
2014Drama League AwardOutstanding Production of a Broadway or Off-Broadway MusicalHedwig and the Angry InchWon
2014 Outer Critics Circle Award Outstanding New Broadway PlayLucky GuyNominated
2014Outer Critics Circle AwardOutstanding New Broadway PlayCasa ValentinaNominated
2014Outer Critics Circle AwardOutstanding Revival of a MusicalHedwig and the Angry InchWon
2014 Drama Desk Award Outstanding Revival of a Broadway or Off-Broadway MusicalHedwig and the Angry InchWon
2014Tony AwardBest PlayCasa ValentinaNominated
2014Tony AwardBest Revival of a MusicalHedwig and the Angry InchWon
2014 Critic's Choice Television Award Best MiniseriesDancing on the EdgeNominated
2014 People's Choice Award Favorite TV Movie / MiniseriesThe White QueenNominated
2014 Primetime Emmy Award Outstanding Limited SeriesThe White QueenNominated
2015 BAFTA Television Award Best Drama SeriesThe MissingNominated
2015BAFTA Television AwardAudience AwardThe MissingNominated
2015 Golden Nymph Award Best Long Form Fiction SeriesThe MissingNominated
2015 Golden Globe Award Best Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television Wolf Hall Won
2015 Peabody Award Entertainment ProgrammingWolf HallWon
2015Primetime Emmy AwardOutstanding Limited SeriesWolf HallNominated
2015Critic's Choice Television AwardBest MiniseriesWolf HallNominated
2015Satellite AwardBest Miniseries or Television FilmWolf HallNominated
2016BAFTA Television AwardBest Drama SeriesWolf HallWon
2016 Broadcasting Press Guild Award Best Drama SeriesWolf HallWon
2016 Royal Television Society Award Best Drama SerialWolf HallNominated
2016Golden Nymph AwardBest Long Form Fiction SeriesWolf HallNominated
2016 Television Critics Association Award Outstanding Achievement in Movie or MiniseriesWolf HallNominated
2016 Golden Globe Award Best Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television The Dresser Nominated
2016Satellite AwardBest Miniseries or Television FilmThe DresserNominated
2016 Evening Standard Theatre Award Best Play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Won
2016 Outer Critics Circle Award Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical Dear Evan Hansen Won
2016 Drama League Award Outstanding Production of a Broadway or Off-Broadway MusicalDear Evan HansenNominated
2017Drama League AwardOutstanding Production of a Broadway or Off-Broadway MusicalDear Evan HansenWon
2017 Lucille Lortel Award Outstanding MusicalDear Evan HansenNominated
2017Tony AwardBest MusicalDear Evan HansenWon
2017 WhatsOnStage Award Best New Musical Dreamgirls Nominated
2017WhatsOnStage AwardBest New PlayHarry Potter and the Cursed ChildWon
2017 South Bank Sky Arts Award Theatre AwardHarry Potter and the Cursed ChildWon
2017 Laurence Olivier Award Best New PlayHarry Potter and the Cursed ChildWon
2017Laurence Olivier AwardBest New MusicalDreamgirlsNominated
2017Laurence Olivier AwardBest Revival The Glass Menagerie Nominated
2018 Drama League Award Best Production of a Broadway or Off-Broadway PlayHarry Potter and the Cursed ChildWon
2018 Outer Critics Circle Award Outstanding New Broadway PlayHarry Potter and the Cursed ChildWon
2018Tony AwardBest PlayHarry Potter and the Cursed ChildWon
2018WhatsOnStage AwardBest West End ShowHarry Potter and the Cursed ChildWon
2018South Bank Sky Arts AwardTelevision Award Howards End Won
2018BAFTA Television AwardBest MiniseriesHowards EndNominated
2018Golden Nymph AwardBest Long Form Fiction SeriesHowards EndNominated
2018Television Critics Association AwardOutstanding Achievement in Movie or MiniseriesHowards EndNominated
2019Primetime Emmy AwardOutstanding Television MovieKing LearNominated

Personal life

He is married to attorney Elizabeth Gaine with whom he has two daughters, Caroline and Charlotte. He also has a son from a previous marriage.

Callender was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2003 Birthday Honours for services to the UK film and television industries in the USA [46] [47] and was knighted in the 2016 New Year Honours for services to the British creative industries. [48]

Callender is a trustee and supporter of the NYU Tisch School of the Arts, the New York Public Theater and The Creative Coalition. In the past, he has also been a trustee of the New York branch of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. [49]

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