Hilary Samson
Initially a reporter for the Daily Express, then joined the publicity department of Warner Bros, working mainly from Teddington Studios but making long trips to Hollywood. Became publicity manager for the Theatre Royal, Windsor (and editor of its magazine programme, Curtain Up) in May 1967, staying there until November 1995. Her first husband was playwright and film publicist Leonard Samson; her second was music teacher Peter Miles, who was also the Theatre Royal’s in-house photographer in the 1980s and 90s.
Past productions
- Publicity Manager (Windsor), Time and Time Again, Haymarket Theatre Company and Windsor Theatre Company
- Publicity Manager (Windsor), …love, Julie, Michael Rose Ltd and Theatre Royal Windsor
- Publicity Manager (Windsor), The Flip Side, Theatre Royal Windsor and Thorndike Theatre
- Publicity Manager, Season’s Greetings, Theatre Royal Windsor
- Publicity Manager, Deadfall, Thorndike Theatre and Windsor Theatre Company
- Publicity Manager, How the Other Half Loves, Windsor Theatre Company
- Publicity Manager, Arsenic and Old Lace, Windsor Theatre Company
- Publicity Manager, The Gingerbread Lady, Windsor Theatre Company
- Publicity Manager, The Happiest Days of Your Life, Windsor Theatre Company
- Publicity Manager, Cash on Delivery, Windsor Theatre Company
- Publicity Manager (Windsor), An Ideal Husband, Bill Kenwright, Peter Hall Company, and Theatre Royal Windsor
- Publicity Manager, Building Blocks, Windsor Theatre Company
- Publicity Manager, Something’s Burning, Windsor Theatre Company
- Publicity Manager, Say Who You Are, Windsor Theatre Company
- Publicity Manager, Otherwise Engaged, Windsor Theatre Company
- Publicity Manager, Joy, Windsor Theatre Company
- Publicity Manager, The Reluctant Debutante, Windsor Theatre Company
- Publicity Manager, The Importance of Being Earnest, Windsor Theatre Company in association with Triumph Theatre Productions and the Windsor Festival
- Publicity Manager, The Winslow Boy, Windsor Theatre Company
- Publicity Manager, How the Other Half Loves, Windsor Theatre Company
- Publicity Manager, Veronica’s Room, Windsor Theatre Company
- Publicity Manager, Murder by the Book, Windsor Theatre Company
- Publicity Manager, Close to the Wind, Windsor Theatre Company
- Publicity Manager, The Bedwinner, Windsor Theatre Company
- Publicity Manager, Smithereens, Windsor Theatre Company
- Publicity Manager, Pack of Lies, Windsor Theatre Company
- Publicity Manager, The Flip Side, Windsor Theatre Company
- Publicity Manager, Abigail’s Party, Windsor Theatre Company
- Publicity Manager, Escapade, Windsor Theatre Company
- Publicity Manager, Lunch Hour, Windsor Theatre Company
- Publicity Manager, Educating Rita, Windsor Theatre Company
- Publicity Manager, Taking Steps, Windsor Theatre Company
- Publicity Manager, The Seven Year Itch, Windsor Theatre Company
- Publicity Manager (Windsor), Dear Liar, Jimmy Wax and Windsor Theatre Company
- Publicity Manager, Night and Day, Windsor Theatre Company
- Publicity Manager, The Norman Conquests, Windsor Theatre Company
- Publicity Manager, Venus Observed, Windsor Theatre Company
- Publicity Manager, Not in the Book, Windsor Theatre Company
- Publicity Manager, Barefoot in the Park, Windsor Theatre Company
- Publicity Manager, In Praise of Love, Windsor Theatre Company
- Publicity Manager, We’re Strangers Here, Windsor Theatre Company
- Publicity Manager, Habeas Corpus, Windsor Theatre Company
- Publicity Manager, Black Coffee, Windsor Theatre Company
- Publicity Manager, Ring Round the Moon, Windsor Theatre Company
- Publicity Manager, The Secretary Bird, Windsor Theatre Company
- Publicity Manager, On Approval, Windsor Theatre Company
- Publicity Manager, Spider’s Web, Windsor Theatre Company
- Publicity Manager, The Old Country, Windsor Theatre Company
- Publicity Manager, Double Edge, Windsor Theatre Company
- Publicity Manager, Donkeys’ Years, Windsor Theatre Company