Sally Greene is the Founder of Greene Light Stage, and co-producer of the Tony Award winning Billy Elliot the Musical.
Sally is renowned for rescuing and restoring The Old Vic, Criterion and Richmond theatres. In 1998, having saved The Old Vic from closure, she formed The Old Vic Theatre Trust with Stephen Daldry, and in 2003 she formed The Old Vic Theatre Company. Sally is the proprietor of the world-famous Soho jazz club, Ronnie Scott’s, and in 2007 she launched Greene Light Films. In 2004 Sally opened the Cheyne Walk Brasserie in Chelsea, once voted restaurant of the year by Harper’s Magazine. In 2019 after undergoing a complete refurbishment the restaurant reopened as No. Fifty Cheyne.
In 2016, to mark the end of OVP’s partnership with The Old Vic Theatre, Sally re-launched the company as Greene Light Stage (GLS) to bring it in line with her film company. GLS has produced, co-produced or managed over 100 shows ranging from musicals to contemporary and classic drama in the West End, on Broadway and on tour, including: Taking Sides, Cyrano de Bergerac, The Reduced Shakespeare Company, The Vagina Monologues, The Weir, Car Man, Medea, Life(x)3, Benefactors, Elaine Stritch: At Liberty, Macbeth, Sexual Perversity in Chicago and Hamlet. Recent GLS productions include The Go-Between, The Mentalists, the transfer of Hampstead Theatre’s hit production of Good People, The Pajama Game directed by Richard Eyre, Private Lives starring Toby Stephens and Anna Chancellor, Passion Play starring Zoë Wanamaker and Samantha Bond, Sweeney Todd starring Michael Ball and Imelda Staunton, Noises Off, Clybourne Park, Jerusalem starring Mark Rylance, The Prisoner of Second Avenue starring Jeff Goldblum, Three Days of Rain starring James McAvoy, Swimming with Sharks starring Christian Slater and Matt Smith, Big Fish starring Kelsey Grammer, Glengarry Glen Ross starring Christian Slater, The Wider Earth and new musical &Juliet, featuring music from acclaimed songwriter and producer Max Martin.
Previously, GLS produced in association with The Old Vic Theatre Company; High Society, Electra, The Crucible, Clarence Darrow, Other Desert Cities, Fortune’s Fool, Much Ado About Nothing, Sweet Bird of Youth, The Winslow Boy, Kiss Me Kate, Hedda Gabler, Democracy, The Duchess of Malfi, The Playboy of the Western World, Cause Célèbre, A Flea in Her Ear, Design for Living, The Real Thing, Six Degrees of Separation, Inherit the Wind, Dancing at Lughnasa, Complicit, The Norman Conquests, Speed the Plough, All About My Mother, Gaslight and The Entertainer.
In 2016, Greene Light Stage began a new venture called Rocket Stage - a theatre production company co-founded by Elton John and David Furnish in partnership with Sally Greene. Rocket Stage is focused on developing and bringing to the stage live theatre projects that are either driven by Elton’s existing musical catalogue or by new compositions from Elton and chosen collaborators. Currently, the company has several theatrical projects in development both in the US and the UK.
Sally Greene is the recipient of an OBE and a Montblanc Arts and Culture Award, in recognition of her contribution to the arts in Britain. Sally has worked continuously throughout her career to support young musicians, actors and other creatives through her involvement with charities including the NSPCC, Pop-up Ltd, HighTide Festival, Ronnie Scott’s Charitable Foundation and the London Music Fund.
