Colin Callender

Colin Callender Colin Callender an Emmy, Golden Globe and BAFTA award winning film and television producer and a Tony Award and Olivier Award winning theater producer, who founded the New York and London based production company Playground in 2012. Callender began his career as stage manager at London's Royal Court Theater working with David Hare and Sam Shepard. He won his first Emmy for his work as producer of the television adaptation of the Royal Shakespeare Company's The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby for Channel Four in England. Under his Playground banner, Callender has produced over 90 hours of prime time television garnering 16 Emmy nominations, 26 BAFTA nominations and 12 Golden Globe nominations, including winning a BAFTA and a Golden Globe for Best Miniseries. These include the Golden Globe and BAFTA award-winning six-part miniseries Wolf Hall directed by Peter Kosminsky starring Mark Rylance, Damian Lewis and Claire Foy for the BBC and Masterpiece PBS, Richard