People – Cummings Dunn Studios

Co-Founder & Creative Director

Steve Cummings

Steve Cummings is a creative entrepreneur, writer-producer and narrative innovator whose career spans law, financial services, theatre and live entertainment. He combines creative instinct with commercial strategy to develop bold, audience-driven productions and original intellectual property.

He independently conceived, wrote and produced the West End hit Murder Trial Tonight, which has performed to more than half a million people across the UK and Ireland and is now entering its fifth season, with an international expansion to a Las Vegas residency in March 2027.

Cummings is Co-Founder of Tigerslane Studios, the company behind Murder Trial Tonight, and Co-Founder of Cummings Dunn Studios. An accomplished playwright, screenwriter and producer, he creates high-concept entertainment at the intersection of story, experience and entrepreneurship, with a focus on developing original properties for audiences in the UK and internationally.

Co-Founder & Creative Director

Matthew Dunn

Matthew Dunn is a highly creative storyteller and narrative visionary—bestselling author of 14 novels, screenwriter and playwright. A former MI6 officer, he draws on extraordinary lived experience not as a label, but as fuel for original, high-stakes stories across film, theatre and screen.

As a prominent voice on global affairs and creative direction at the studio, Dunn leads the imagination and strategic development of CDS’s global slates—with vision first, craft always.

He co-writes premier theatrical productions and film and screen projects, including an ambitious new slate of original theatre set to hit stages across the UK and internationally throughout 2027.

Founders.

Steve Cummings

Matthew Dunn