Sonia Friedman Productions creates key senior leader role

Sonia Friedman Productions (SFP) is to say goodbye to 19-year-long international executive producer PAM SKINNER early next year, as part of the company’s ongoing process of “significant restructuring”.

In a newly-created role, SFP today (27 August) announced JACK DINGLE‘s appointment as managing director, responsible for overseeing the strategic, commercial, financial and operational management of the business. Dingle, who previously served as finance director, takes up the position in November.

The announcement comes days after the company – behind Broadway and West End successes including Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and Stereophonic – welcomed former National Theatre Productions leader KASH BENNETT as executive director.

SONIA FRIEDMAN commented: “Pam Skinner has been a pillar of SFP for nearly two decades. Her intelligence, wisdom, humour and extraordinary judgment have guided this company through countless productions around the world. She has been a trusted colleague and a dear friend, and her departure marks the close of another extraordinary chapter in SFP’s story…

“At the same time, I am thrilled to welcome back Jack Dingle as our first managing director. Jack knows this company inside out, and his return – in this expanded leadership role – will be transformational.”

Skinner said she felt it was the “right time to pass on the baton and seek new adventures”, adding: “I will be forever grateful to have worked alongside the incomparable Sonia Friedman and the entire, immensely talented SFP family – past and present – all of whom have contributed so brilliantly to this extraordinary journey.”

Meanwhile, Dingle said he was “delighted” to return to the company, adding: “I look forward to drawing on my professional and leadership experience across theatre, music and screen to help enable Sonia’s vision for the company’s next chapter.”