Jon Thoday

Thoday is joint founder and co-executive chairman of Avalon, the talent management, television production and live promotions group. He is executive producer on Taskmaster, which has 15 original international versions running worldwide, multi-Emmy-winning Last Week Tonight with John Oliver for HBO and Not Going Out for the BBC. He is also producer of Operation Mincemeat, which is entering its fifth year in the West End after winning two Olivier Awards in 2024, including Best New Musical, and opening on Broadway in 2025, where it won a Tony Award. Thoday has executive produced other major TV series including Catastrophe, TV Burp, Starstruck, Breeders and Workaholics. He produced Newman & Baddiel: Live at Wembley, the first arena comedy show in British history, and Jerry Springer: The Opera by Richard Thomas and Stewart Lee, the first West End show to win all four Best New Musical awards. The latter led to Thoday and then-BBC director-general Mark Thompson becoming the last people to