A SHORT HISTORY OF CRUICKSHANK CAZENOVE LIMITED

In 1970, Harriet Cruickshank and Christopher Cazenove founded Cruickshank Cazenove to allow those with modest sums to invest in West End shows. Among the productions they backed were Three Months Gone by Donald Howarth with Diana Dors, How The Other Half Loves by Alan Ayckbourn, and the original London production of Company music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim with Elaine Stritch. In 1983, Cruickshank Cazenove was re-founded in its current form as a talent agency.

The Cruickshank Cazenove office when first purchased at auction in 1983 (shown in picture: the Managing Director with her bank manager)

The Cruickshank Cazenove office when first purchased at auction in 1983 (shown in picture: the Managing Director with her bank manager)

Cruickshank Cazenove is a family firm with over 40 years’ experience of nurturing talent, negotiating deals and creative collaboration with theatre & dance companies, opera & ballet houses, and film and tv productions all over the world.

 

WHO WE ARE

HARRIET CRUICKSHANK | agent

Harriet has managed the Citizens’ Theatre in Glasgow and The Royal Court Theatre Upstairs. She is a member of the board at the English Stage Company and is one of the founders of the Alfred Fagon Award. She has been the managing director of Cruickshank Cazenove Limited since 1983.

 

DAY MACASKILL | agent

Day has worked in theatre and entertainment for over 20 years. He started his career in administration at the Royal Court Theatre and Almeida Theatre before spending 10 years in production and strategy at the BBC where he worked in television. podcasts, online and radio. He joined Cruickshank Cazenove in 2015.