I'm a BAFTA award winning television director who has helped create some of the UK’s most popular TV shows. I have a passion for sustainability and the environment and live in rural Wiltshire within the Avebury World Heritage Site with my partner Robert, an artist & writer and our two Borzoi’s Sky & Freya.

I specialise in directing multi-camera OB & studio based entertainment shows & events. I direct single and multi-camera programmes across a number of genres including, entertainment, factual, cookery, science, reality, game-shows, quizzes. I’m particularly experienced at shooting live music.

I help make TV green, advising, guiding and encouraging sustainable activities in all aspects of programme-making. I can create an environmental management system for your company or production that will reduce your carbon footprint, saving money that can be spent on screen.

I’m a highly skilled, single and multi-camera director specialising in comedy, entertainment and factual-entertainment programmes. I have considerable LIVE broadcast experience and specialise in helping create new shows, taking projects from the ideas stage through to pilot and onto successful, returning series.

In addition to directing, I have also produced and executive produced shows.  I have considerable boardroom experience as a non-executive director and Chair of Directors UK.  In 2010 I became a BAFTA Youth Mentor and volunteer as a ambassador for the Public Service Broadcasting Trust advising on Fixers - a charity helping young people.  I also work closely with the BAFTA albert Consortium, as an albert ambassador helping guide productions through the albert certification process, an environmental management system that everyone working in the media is being encouraged to adopt.

Television has been a major part of my life since visiting the set of Dr Who as a child and watching John Pertwee battle giant spiders before regenerating into Tom Baker. From that moment I was hooked and knew I wanted to be a TV director.

My first BBC job was as a 16 year-old runner in film despatch during my school holidays. I spent my lunch hours and evenings touring the studios watching shows being made and learning as much as I could.

In my late teens, whilst training as an apprentice film editor at the National Coal Board Film Unit, I also formed a pressure group with two school friends, campaigning for more youth programmes on TV. We made our first programme for the Something Else strand on BBC Two in 1981. This led to us being one of the youngest teams to be commissioned, aged just 21, to produce Ear To The Ground - a youth series for the newly formed Channel Four.

In 1984 I moved to Manchester, working first for the BBC where I got an opportunity to become a studio director, cutting my teeth on live Saturday morning children’s programmes. I then worked as a director in the entertainment department at Granada TV. I now work as a freelance director and I've directed programmes for all major British broadcasters and independent production companies as well as Comedy Central in the US.

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