About Us

Catherine Bailey trained in technical theatre at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art where she later served on the Council. After a successful career in stage management both in the West End and at the National Theatre she then became the Production Manager at Hampstead Theatre, a new writing theatre, where she stayed for six years before forming Catherine Bailey Limited.

Her first documentary for Channel 4 won a First Time Broadcast Award. Several documentaries later she started producing radio drama for BBC Radio Three and Four and became the leading independent supplier of drama to BBC Radio winning five Sony Radio Academy Awards, including: The Gold (Laughter in the Dark by Nabakov); Silver (The Permanent Way by David Hare and Breakfast with Mugabe by Fraser Grace); Bronze (Sea Urchins, by Sharman Macdonald, Mortimer and the Millennium). She also produced Deborah Warner’s Footfalls by Samuel Beckett in London’s West End.

For television she produced three series of the successful comedy for children, Barking! for cITV and Feel the Force an original comedy series for BBC2. She produced three series of Life of Riley an original comedy series for BBC 1, and Quick Cuts a comedy series for BBC 4. She also produced David Cronenberg’s highly acclaimed movie, Spider, which won many international awards and was in Competition at Cannes in 2002.