About Us

Chris Harper is a Tony and Olivier Award-winning producer who has produced some of the most acclaimed theatrical successes of the last 15 years.   

He was the founding Managing Director and Producer of National Theatre Productions in 2009.  While at the National Theatre, Chris produced Michael Morpurgo’s War Horse for 8 record-breaking years at the New London Theatre West End. In 2011, War Horse transferred to the Vivian Beaumont Theatre at Lincoln Center on Broadway where it was nominated for 5 Tony Awards and won 5, including Best Play. It was the longest-running play in Canada, where it played 368 performances at the Princess of Wales Theatre in Toronto. War Horse toured extensively in the UK and America alongside separate productions in Holland, Australia, and Germany.  Richard Bean’s One Man Two Guvnors transferred to the Adelphi Theatre for a 16-week sellout season starring James Corden before moving to the Music Box Theatre on Broadway. The play also transferred to the Theatre Royal Haymarket where it ran for 2 years. Simon Stephen’s adaption of Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time transferred to the Apollo Theatre followed by the Gielgud Theatre in the West End where it ran for 4 years. It transferred to The Ethel Barrymore Theatre on Broadway where it ran for 2 years, earning 6 Tony nominations and winning 5, including Best Play. It toured extensively in the UK and North America. Duncan Macmillan’s People, Places and Things transferred to Wyndham’s Theatre in 2016.

He was Executive Producer on the West End transfer of the Broadway production of Beautiful: The Carole King Musical.

In 2016, Chris founded Elliott and Harper Productions. He produced Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s musical Company, directed by Marianne Elliott which opened in the West End at the Gielgud Theatre in 2018, before transferring to the Bernard Jacobs Theatre on Broadway. Company earned 9 Tony Award nominations and 5 Tony Award wins including ‘Best Revival of a Musical’, and then embarked on a US tour in 2023. Other productions include the West End premiere of Cock by Mike Bartlett, directed by Marianne Elliott and starring Jonathan Bailey, Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman directed by Marianne Elliott and Miranda Cromwell at the Young Vic Theatre before transferring to the Piccadilly Theatre in the West End and the Hudson Theatre on Broadway, Heisenberg: The Uncertainty Principle at Wyndham’s Theatre, and The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, directed by Sally Cookson at the Leeds Playhouse and Bridge Theatre in London. A new production of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe embarked on a critically acclaimed UK and Northern Ireland tour in 2022, followed by a successful run at the Gillian Lynne Theatre in the West End directed by Michael Fentiman. It also broke all box office records at the Birmingham Rep in 2023 and embarks on a major UK tour in 2024.

Chris has programmed The Other Palace for Andrew Lloyd Webber and has served on the board of The Young Vic Theatre, The Bush Theatre, Punchdrunk, and Battersea Arts Centre. He has also worked for Birmingham Rep, Birmingham Hippodrome, Stage Entertainment, Disney Theatrical, Cameron Mackintosh and André Ptaszynski’s Pola Jones.