I am a BAFTA, RTS award winning & Grierson nominated Executive Producer & Showrunner, Series Director & Director who delivers vision, ambition and powerful storytelling with heart, humour & scale. From ob-docs to drama docs, arts, music to history, factual entertainment shows to large-scale live events. I have a particular passion for art & histor... Read More

I am a BAFTA, RTS award winning & Grierson nominated Executive Producer & Showrunner, Series Director & Director who delivers vision, ambition and powerful storytelling with heart, humour & scale. From ob-docs to drama docs, arts, music to history, factual entertainment shows to large-scale live events. I have a particular passion for art & history films, am an accomplished team leader, am able to negotiate difficult access and talent and have a track record for creating entertaining & thought-provoking projects for the premium players in the international & UK markets.I have generated the ideas for many of my films & series and can take an idea from early development to pitching, scripting, producing and post as creative and logistical lead. i have experience shaping first series and enthusiastically works with a team to steer research and shape narratives to uncover new and dramatic angles through my story telling. I have a reputation for being a great diplomat on set and building excellent relationships with on screen talent, ranging from high profile stars to launching new diverse, talent.As Director, I have experience working in remote communities – Meet the Amish; creating reputational films with archive about iconic characters – in Virago: Changing the World A Page at A Time, i reveal the notorious character of publisher Carmen Calil who took the world by storm with her all-female publishing company; crafting scripted documentaries – A Woman in Love & War: Vera Brittain & How Mad Was George III, starring Geoffrey Streatfield; weaving animation into my films: The History of Mother Earth: Gaia Revealed; revealing biographical stories - with the music series Play it Again fpr BBC. And as Series Director, i have shaped & crafted the series style & narrative as mirrored in series like 4 part BBC series, A Century the Wrote Itself, & 8 part series, Sissinghurst. I am a confident self-shooter and enjoy putting the subject at their ease & drawing out intimate & revealing reactions. I am known for my high-profile interviews from King Charles to Barbara Streisand to Peter Tatchell to Margaret Atwood. As a musician, I enjoy working with composers creating a powerful soundtrack to my films.As Showrunner, I have masterminded teams and narratives from scripted shows like Damned & Romesh Ranganathan’s The Reluctant Landlord to feature series like Nigella Bites to major obs doc series like The Choir and Amish: World’s Squarest Teenagers and Factual Entertainment like Play it Again and Jo Brand’s Big Splash. The latter, weaving live comedy through the series.As Executive Producer, I have extensive experience trouble shooting at each stage of production, negotiating access, constructing & guiding a vision, providing solutions, & empowering a team. I know and have good relationships with most of the commissioners and often bridges coproduction relations – recent Grierson nominated Nature & Us, A History through Art with BBC, BBC Select, ZDF/Arte was commended for its high production values despite being filmed through the pandemic.i have a degree in and speak Japanese, worked there as a journalist and photographer, worked for NHK, Japan Broadcasting and the United Nations in Tokyo & have lived & filmed there extensively. Read Less