About
Christmas in Leicester Square transforms the centre of bustling London into a wonderland including traditional Christmas markets with hand-crafted goods and delicious food and drinks, plus a whole host of fantastic shows in the beautiful surrounds of a traditional 1920s spiegeltent.
12 November 2021 - 3 January 2022.
About Underbelly Ltd
Underbelly is a UK based live entertainment company specialising in the creation, curation and management of large-scale cultural events and festivals with a particular focus on city centres. Established in 2000 at the world-renowned Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Underbelly has since produced events in locations from theatres to roundabouts in London, Edinburgh, and Hong Kong.
Our current London events and festivals include Underbelly Festival, London Wonderground at Earls Court, StreetEat, which was one of the first outdoor COVID safe events, Christmas In Leicester Square and Christmas in Trafalgar Square (both for Westminster City Council). We are also the event production partner for WestEnd Live in Trafalgar Square (on behalf of Westminster City Council and Society London Theatre) and Pride in London, the second largest one day event in London. Underbelly also produces La Clique, opening at Marina Bay Sands, Singapore in May.
In Scotland, we produce Underbelly at the Edinburgh Fringe, programming and presenting 200 shows per day across 24 popup theatres and 5 outdoor sites, Edinburgh’s Christmas, and Edinburgh’s Hogmanay Festival (both for City of Edinburgh Council). In 2020, in lieu of live events, we produced FareWell for the online Edinburgh’s Hogmanay celebration which was watched by over 6.5 million people.
We love creating fantastic and unique pop-up events. We love entertaining. We love creating something for all ages and all tastes to enjoy. Most of all, we love live entertainment and events. In 2019, we sold over 1.4 million tickets to events and productions that we produced and welcomed more than 9 million people to our event and festival sites
The Team
Directors
Ed Bartlam & Charlie Wood
Head of Operations
Senior Operations Manager
Head of Production
Production Manager
Production Manager
Technical Production Manager
Production Project Manager
Production Co-ordinator
Associate Producer
Christmas Producer
Head of Programming
Festival Programmer & Producer
Festival Programmer
Head of Bars & Catering
Marketing Manager
Marketing Manager
Head of Partnerships
Senior Box Office Manager
Finance Director