Colin Callender

My principal focus is finding great dramas.

— Colin Callender

New York is obviously the capital of theater.

— Colin Callender

Each audience seems to have a life of its own, which is why watching the show regularly is so exciting, because it's…

— Colin Callender

The play has to work for the super fans, and not speak down to them, and yet it had to play to…

— Colin Callender

The notion that the staging of the play Harry Potter should be raw magic and street theater rather than high-tech theater, was…

— Colin Callender

You never know, until you put a play up for an audience, whether it's going to work. Things you think will work…

— Colin Callender

My career has sort of been characterized by taking advantage of the changes in the marketplace, sometimes by design, sometimes by accident.

— Colin Callender

I live in New York, so I'm used to the audiences that cheer and clap through a play. It is unusual for…

— Colin Callender

The theater is a communal experience, and whatever the emotional connection between an audience member and the actors onstage, it ripples through…

— Colin Callender

I find it very invigorating having Ken Lonergan, who's an established, Pulitzer-nominated playwright doing Howards End, or Chris Hampton who's won an…

— Colin Callender

If the play works in an emotional and engaging way purely from what's on the page, then what's on the stage will…

— Colin Callender

When I started producing it was right at the beginning Channel 4 in England. Nicholas Nickelby which was my first credit as…

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At heart, I'm really interested in this marriage of theater, film and television and I think what happened in the UK and…

— Colin Callender

I think that the marketplace has changed in many dramatic ways but actually in some sense it's remained the same because the…

— Colin Callender

One of the things that's different about London and the English market is that theater and film and television are all based…

— Colin Callender

In this new digital landscape, this sort of international marketplace, it's come full circle, and I wanted to take advantage of my…

— Colin Callender

I think that's so particularly exciting about this moment in time is all the new platforms that are now existing, the Netflixes…

— Colin Callender

I think where Playground is heading is deeper into that marriage between stage, film and television, with the increasing number of people…

— Colin Callender

I've had a long association with the theater over the years but I had never produced a play and it was something…

— Colin Callender

When I did Nicholas Nickelby originally, that was a co-production between the new Channel 4, Polygram in Europe and Mobil Oil in…

— Colin Callender

I had read the scripts that Nora Ephron had written as a movie about Mike McAlary. We were never able to make…

— Colin Callender

I have, over the years brought an enormous number of plays to television starting obviously with Nicholas Nickelby and then things like…

— Colin Callender

I think people want the intimacy in the engagement of sitting in a theater with people and seeing something happen live and…

— Colin Callender

The White Queen in many ways it is representative of the sort of drama that I'm talking about. The books by Philippa…

— Colin Callender