AWARDS


2025 Best North West Short Film - HIDE - Manchester International Film Festival

2025 Best UK Short Film - HIDE - Barcelona Independent Film Awards

2024 Best Fiction Short Film - HIDE - North East International Film Festival

2024 Best Director - HIDE - Greece International Film Festival

2019 Children’s BAFTA Nomination: Best Comedy - So Awkward, Series 4, CBBC

2018 Children’s BAFTA Winner: Best Comedy - So Awkward, CBBC

2017 Broadcast Award Winner: Best Children’s Comedy - Horrible Histories, Series 6, CBBC

10 x Best Comedy Nominations - Children's BAFTA - Horrible Histories, So Awkward, Sorry I've Got No Head.

2018 International Emmy Award - Best Comedy - Horrible Histories

International Emmy Nomination 2017: Best Comedy – Horrible Histories Series Six

2012 Chortle Awards Nominee: Best TV Programme – Sorry I’ve Got No Head

2009 Rose D’Or Nomination: Best Sitcom – F.M.

2007 Scottish BAFTA Winner 2007: Best Comedy – Blowout

2007 N. Ireland Film Festival: Best International Comedy Short Film – A Full Blown Affair

2007 Strasbourg Film Festival: Best Actress in a Short Film - Pauline Quirke in Waiting for Giro WORK 


TELEVISION & FILM


HIDE | Writer, Director, Exec Producers | Multi award-winning Short Film currently winning awards on the global Film Festival circuit


HIGH HOOPS | First Block Director | 5 x 30 mins | CBBC | Exec Producer: Rebecca Papworth


EASTENDERS | Director | 4 x 30 mins | BBC | Producer:



CORONATION STREET | Director | 4 x 30 minutes | ITV | Producer: Iain Macleod | Script Producer: Lucy Beckett


GOLDIES OLDIES | Director | Comedy Drama | 5 x 30 mins | Nickelodeon | Exec Producer: Caroline Norris | Producer: Candida Julian-Jones                         


EMMERDALE | Director | 4 x 30 mins | ITV Studios | Exec Producer: Jane Hudson | Producer: Laura Shaw


SO AWKWARD, SERIES 2-6 | First Block Director | Comedy Drama | 35 x 28 minutes | CBBC | Producer: Joanne Blake | Exec Producer: Alan Marke & Jim Reid


SCHOOL BUS | Director | Comedy Drama | 1 x 30 mins | CBBC | Producer: Joanne Blake


Salford BBC Comedy Showcase | Development Director | Producer: Usman Mullan


HORRIBLE HISTORIES, SERIES 6 & 7 | Director | 14 x 28 minutes | CBBC | Producer: Tom Miller | Exec Producer for CBBC: Melissa Hardinge


DRIVEN TO DISTRACTION | Director | 6 x 3 minutes | Channel 4


MARK WATSON & SAM SIMMONS PILOT | Director | 1 x 28 minutes | BBC Worldwide


HOLLYOAKS | Director | 40 X 30 MINUTES | Channel 4 | Producer: Vicky Khan


ULTIMATE BRAIN | Series Producer | 10 x 28 minutes | CBBC | Exec Producer for Zigzag: Peter Wyles | Exec Producer for CBBC: Hugh Lawton


MAD LAB | Series Producer | BBC Learning | 4 x 15 minutes | Exec Producer for Zigzag: Peter Wyles | Exec Producer for BBC Learning: Moray London


DON’T DROP THE BATON | Director | 2 x 28 minutes | BBC Scotland | Producer: Jaqueline Sinclair | Exec Producer BBC Scotland: Eileen Herlihy


DANI’S CASTLE, SERIES 2 | Writer | 1 x 28 minutes | CBBC | Exec Producer for Zodiak: Elaine Sperber


PECKHAM KNIGHTS | Creator - Writer - Director | 1 x 30 minutes | Hat Trick | Comedy pilot developed with Paul Schlesinger


HOME MOVIES WITH JOE WILKINSON | Producer - Director | 10 x 10 minutes | YAHOO


MICROSOFT CHRISTMAS CAMPAIGN | Director | 3 x 5 minutes | Microsoft


CHAIN GANG | Director | 1 x 30 minutes | BBC Comedy | Producer: Simon Mayhew-Archer | Exec: Pete Thornton


OFF THEIR ROCKERS | Director | 7 x 30 minutes | ITV | Producer: Andy Brown | Exec Producer: Mob Dar


MATERIAL GIRL | Director | IPCN, Shanghai | BBC Worldwide


SORRY I’VE GOT NO HEAD, SERIES 1 - 3 | Director | 39 x 30 mins | CBBC | Exec Producer CBBC: Melissa Hardinge | Exec Producer SO TV: Jeremy Salsby


THE FORGOTTEN PICTURE SHOW | Director | Starring Steve Oram, Tom Meeten, Alice Lowe and Simon Farnaby | Producer: Tom Miller | Exec: Graham Stuart


NIGHTWATCH | Writer - Director - Producer | Room 5 Productions | Comedy Pilot


 F.M. | Co-creator - Writer - Associate Producer | Granada TV | ITV2 | 6 x 30 mins | First refusal to direct but not available


BLOWOUT | Director | Channel 4 | 30 min Comedy Lab | Producer: Rab Christie


F.M. | Co-creator - Writer - Director | Channel 4 Comedy Lab | 30 mins | Producer Johnny Morrison, Exec Producer Channel Four Caroline Leddy