Founded by Tristan Baker and Charlie Parsons in 2011, Runaway Entertainment combines a dedicated team with a wealth of experience spanning both subsidised and commercial theatre, film and television.

Tristan Baker – Producer

Tristan is an Olivier award-winning theatre producer whose recent productions include Girl From The North Country (Noel Coward Theatre & The Old Vic), Lin-Manuel Miranda's Olivier Award-winning In The Heights, David Bowie's musical Lazarus, the Olivier Award-winning production of The Railway Children (all King's Cross Theatre) and Guys & Dolls (West End & tour).

Tristan is the producer of the current UK tour of Flashdance and has been the producer of Footloose for the past 14 years which has so far completed seven UK tours, three West End seasons at the Novello, Playhouse and Peacock Theatres and intertnational seasons in Belgium and South Africa.

Tristan co-produced Never Forget, the musical based on the songs of Take That, which completed two major UK national tours and ran at the Savoy Theatre in London’s West End. His other productions include Bad Girls at the Garrick Theatre, the UK tour of the multi-award winning Broadway and West End production of Kiss Me Kate, a UK tour of Love Shack and the UK tour of the classic musical Calamity Jane and its subsequent season at the Shaftesbury Theatre in the West End. 

Charlie Parsons – Producer

Charlie Parsons has had a huge impact on the international media sector over the last 15 years and changed the face of television with his creative hits The Word, The Big Breakfast and the Emmy winning Survivor, with seven prime time awards.

As co-founder of one of television’s most influential production companies, Planet 24, with Bob Geldof and Lord Waheed Alli, he created and produced hundreds of ground-breaking TV programmes including The Big Breakfast and the Word. Planet 24 was an engine for change in British media and his television shows were a platform for many household names to make their reputations including Chris Evans, Gaby Roslin, Lisa Tarbuck, Johnny Vaughan and Denise Van Outen.

He brought the first reality show to television screens with Survivor, which is being shown in over 20 editions in dozens of countries around the world and has just had its 28th series on CBS in America: Charlie is its Creator and Executive Producer. Survivor is one of Americas top TV shows, a huge hit internationally and continues to create punchy headlines with its originality and win awards globally.

Before setting up Planet 24, Charlie studied English at Pembroke College, Oxford and trained as a journalist. He worked at London Weekend Television on programmes including Network 7, which won a BAFTA award for originality. Charlie also developed and produced Never Forget, a musical with the songs of Take That which had a successful West End run with four and five star reviews before touring the country. He still writes regularly for newspapers including the Financial Times. He is also a patron of the
London Film School.

Isobel David – Producer

Stella Littlechild – Executive General Manager

James Mullan - General Manager

Mark Cartwright - Touring Producer & Head of Finance

Estrella Mabika - Production Assistant