Stephen Waley-Cohen

Sir Stephen Harry Waley-Cohen, 2nd Baronet (born 22 June 1946) is an English theatre owner-manager and producer, following a career as a businessman and financial journalist. He 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. He was chairman of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) Council.

Career Business Waley-Cohen was a financial journalist, at the Daily Mail from 1968 to 1973, from 1969 to 1983. director of the Stewart Wrightson Members Agency Ltd 1987 to 1998

He was chairman of First Call Group plc from 1996 to 1998 and of Portsmouth & Sunderland Newspaper plc from 1998 to 1999. and the Savoy from 1997 to 2005. In April 2007 he took over the Ambassadors Theatre.

He became the producer of The Mousetrap in 1994. Mousetrap Productions, of which 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. The charity brings disadvantaged young people into the West End to experience theatre, and runs access, education and audience development programmes. The charity had taken over 100,000 young people to the theatre by 2012. and Chairman of RADA's Development Board. He was a Trustee of The Theatres Trust from 1998 to 2004. In 2011 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

He was chairman of the British-American Project executive committee from 1989 to 92, and continued to have a role in its subsequent development.

He is currently a trustee of the Campaign for the Arts.

As a hereditary baronet, Waley-Cohen is styled Sir as part of his baronetcy – the title is not a knighthood.

Personal life Waley-Cohen has three children by his first marriage to Pamela Doniger, and two with American sculptor Josie Spencer. His nephew is the jockey Sam Waley-Cohen. His father, Bernard Waley-Cohen, was Lord Mayor of London, and his mother was educationalist and public servant Joyce Waley-Cohen.

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