Studio Lambert and Neal Street Productions are delighted to announce a major theatrical adaptation of the global phenomenon The Traitors is in development for launch in London next year. The production is being written by John Finnemore (Cabin Pressure, Good Omens) and directed by Olivier Award-winner Robert Hastie (Operation Mincemeat, Standing at the Sky’s Edge).
The announcement of the stage version, produced by the All3Media-backed companies, comes as the smash-hit, multi-award-winning psychological television series hosted by Claudia Winkleman finished its fourth series on BBC One and BBC iPlayer. The final of The Celebrity Traitors last year captivated audiences with a remarkable 15 million viewers, making it the most popular UK television programme of 2025.
Stephen Lambert, CEO of Studio Lambert, said: “Taking The Traitors from screen to stage is a hugely exciting next step for this much-loved brand. Partnering with Neal Street Productions, a true theatrical powerhouse, allows us to reimagine the show as a bold and surprising theatrical performance. Faithful fans should expect an intense, joyful night out as we reveal a thrilling new hunting ground for our Traitors.”
Caro Newling, Co-Founder of Neal Street Productions, said: “In developing The Traitors for the stage, Neal Street and Studio Lambert have curated a team of brilliant faithful theatre-makers led by director Rob Hastie and writer John Finnemore to bring a bold, structural twist to the format that only the live medium can provide.”
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Full production details, including timelines, are to be announced in due course.
Rights were negotiated through All3Media International.
About The Traitors
The Traitors (Dutch title: De Verraders) was created and developed by IDTV and POSVIDEO in cooperation with RTL Creative Unit. All3Media International is a global partner and handles rights, format and tape sales for The Traitors. Over 50 territories have broadcast episodes of The Traitors via tape sales, and over 30 territories across six continents have commissioned local format versions. All3Media International also handles The Traitors thriving licensing programme, including a board game, card game, dress up line and Immersive Experience, which launched in London last summer.
Named as K7’s Format of The Year 2024 (Source: K7’s Tracking the Giants: The Top 100 Unscripted Formats 2023-2024), The Traitors has won awards around the world, including multiple Emmy, BAFTA and RTS, Asian Academy Creative awards, as well as a Rose d’Or, and Producers Guild Award.
About John Finnemore
John Finnemore is a multi-award-winning writer and performer for radio, television, film, and stage. For BBC Radio 4 he created and starred in the sitcom Cabin Pressure, the sketch show John Finnemore’s Souvenir Programme, and the play anthology John Finnemore’s Double Acts. In a 2020 Radio Times poll of the greatest radio comedies of all time, he was the only writer with two titles ranked in the top ten.
In 2020 he received the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain Award for Outstanding Contribution to Writing. Other accolades include two BBC Audio Drama Awards, two further WGGB Awards, and a Sony Radio Academy award.
John’s television work includes That Mitchell and Webb Look, Good Omens 2, and Armando Iannucci’s HBO/Sky comedy Avenue 5, in which he also appeared. He and Iannucci have co-written a feature film, In Too Deep, which is in development.
John sets cryptic crosswords, including for The Times Listener, as “Emu”. After becoming the third person in nearly a century to solve the literary puzzle Cain’s Jawbone, he devised his own cryptic murder mystery puzzle, The Researcher’s First Murder (Unbound, 2024). He also contributed a new Jeeves and Wooster story for Jeeves Again (Penguin Random House, 2025).
About Robert Hastie
Robert is the director of Olivier and Tony Award winning musical Operation Mincemeat, currently running in the West End and on Broadway. He was appointed the Deputy Artistic Director of the National Theatre in January 2025, and his production of Hamlet will shortly transfer to the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York.
Previously, as Artistic Director of Sheffield Theatres, Robert was the director of the musical Standing at the Sky’s Edge created by Richard Hawley and Chris Bush, winning Best Musical Production at the UK Theatre Awards before a run at the National Theatre and a West End transfer, winning Best Musical at the 2023 Olivier Awards.
At Sheffield, Rob directed Coriolanus with Tom Bateman and a critically acclaimed revival of The York Realist co-produced with and presented at The Donmar Warehouse in London where he was Associate Director. Robert also directed Miss Saigon, Guys and Dolls, Julius Caesar, Of Kith and Kin (co-produced with The Bush Theatre), The Wizard of Oz and A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Rob directed Macbeth at Shakespeare’s Globe, starring Michelle Terry, in winter 2018.
In 2016 he directed Breaking the Code at Manchester Royal Exchange in the play’s first major revival for 30 years. In that year, he also directed Henry V at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre starring Michelle Terry.
As Associate Director of the Donmar Warehouse he directed Splendour by Abi Morgan and a revival of My Night with Reg by Kevin Elyot which transferred to the Apollo Theatre, West End.
Previous productions include: A Breakfast of Eels by Robert Holman, (Print Room 2015), Carthage by Chris Thompson (Finborough Theatre, 2014), Events While Guarding the Bofors Gun by John McGrath (Finborough Theatre, 2012), Sunburst by Tennessee Williams (UK Premiere, Holborn Grange Hotel, 2012).
He was Associate Director for Sixty-Six Books/Bush Theatre: In the Land of Uz by Neil LaBute, The Middle Man by Anthony Weigh, David and Goliath by Andrew Motion, Snow in Sheffield by Helen Mort and A Lost Expression by Luke Kennard.
About Studio Lambert
Studio Lambert is a globally acclaimed television production company with offices in Los Angeles, London, Manchester, and Scotland. Known for its premium programming, the company has earned a reputation for bold storytelling and innovative formats that resonate with audiences worldwide.
A market leader in unscripted entertainment. Its award-winning formats include the global hit Gogglebox (Channel 4), The Circle (Netflix and Channel 4), and the BAFTA-winning Race Across the World and Celebrity Race Across the World (BBC). The company also produces The Traitors, a psychological competition format that has achieved multi-award-winning success in both the UK and U.S. (BBC and Peacock), as well as Squid Game: The Challenge which is a global hit for Netflix.
In scripted television, Studio Lambert’s portfolio includes Boarders, as well as the BAFTA-winning Three Girls, Amazon Prime’s The Feed, and BBC dramas The Nest and Three Families. Most recently, the company secured the exclusive television rights to Hallie Rubenhold’s Story of a Murder: The Wives, The Mistress and Dr Crippen.
Last year the company won all five categories that it was nominated for in the 2025 Primetime Emmy Awards for The Traitors US; and Studio Lambert was also named Best Independent Production Company at the 2025 Broadcast Awards. Studio Lambert is part of All3Media.
About Neal Street Productions
Neal Street is one of the UK’s most respected production companies, producing film, television and theatre. Founded 2003 by Sam Mendes, Pippa Harris and Caro Newling, it makes distinctive, popular award-winning projects on both sides of the Atlantic.
TV includes Call the Midwife, The Franchise, Britannia, Penny Dreadful, Informer, The Hollow Crown.
Films include newly released Hamnet and The Magic Faraway Tree, together with Empire of Light, 1917 and Revolutionary Road. Currently in production The Beatles project for Sony Pictures, four distinct theatrical feature films conceived and directed by Sam Mendes.
Theatre recently originated by Neal Street includes The Lehman Trilogy, The Motive and the Cue, The Hills of California, Hamnet. Most recent of numerous nationally made co-productions presented across two decades is The Fifth Step developed for its West End season at Soho Place.
Neal Street’s theatre slate is primarily focused on development of new work, overseen by Newling together with producer, Georgia Gatti.
In 2015 Neal Street moved under the umbrella of parent company, All3Media, which is owned by RedBird IMI.
For full biography 2003 to 2026 nealstreetproductions.com
