Exclusive: British award-winning writer and director Robert Icke has signed with CAA.
Icke, who has worked in theater, television, and film, won the Olivier Award in 2016 for his production and adaptation of Oresteia, making him the youngest person to ever win the award. He also won the Evening Standard Best Director Award for the production, and three years later again won that award for his productions of The Wild Duck and his adaptation of The Doctor.
Icke directed Hamlet, starring client Andrew Scott, at the Almeida and on the West End in 2017 and at New York’s Park Avenue Armory in 2022.
He is set to direct Sir Ian McKellen this spring in the West End’s Player Kings, Icke’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 1 and Part 2. McKellen will play Falstaff.
Icke also is set to direct a production of Oedipus, starring Mark Strong and Lesley Manville, in...
Icke, who has worked in theater, television, and film, won the Olivier Award in 2016 for his production and adaptation of Oresteia, making him the youngest person to ever win the award. He also won the Evening Standard Best Director Award for the production, and three years later again won that award for his productions of The Wild Duck and his adaptation of The Doctor.
Icke directed Hamlet, starring client Andrew Scott, at the Almeida and on the West End in 2017 and at New York’s Park Avenue Armory in 2022.
He is set to direct Sir Ian McKellen this spring in the West End’s Player Kings, Icke’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 1 and Part 2. McKellen will play Falstaff.
Icke also is set to direct a production of Oedipus, starring Mark Strong and Lesley Manville, in...
- 1/30/2024
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
UK agency Casarotto Ramsay & Associates has named former Meta and Film4 exec Anna Higgs as Managing Director.
She will join in August, having most recently been Director of Entertainment Partnerships at Meta, which has been cutting staff as it seeks to reshape its business amid economic uncertainty.
Higgs is also the Chair of the BAFTA Film Committee, having been recently reelected. She was also The Night Manager producer The Ink Factory’s digital lead, Film4’s Head of Digital and worked at online channel Nowness. Further back she founded Quark Films.
Higgs joins a team of over 60 staff, who look after a client roster that includes Academy Award winning directors Steve McQueen, Edward Berger and Lenny Abrahamson; Academy Award winning writer Christopher Hampton; Mood creator Nicôle Lecky; Enola Holmes and His Dark Materials scribe Jack Thorne; playwrights such as Sir David Hare and Lucy Kirkwood; and several others. It...
She will join in August, having most recently been Director of Entertainment Partnerships at Meta, which has been cutting staff as it seeks to reshape its business amid economic uncertainty.
Higgs is also the Chair of the BAFTA Film Committee, having been recently reelected. She was also The Night Manager producer The Ink Factory’s digital lead, Film4’s Head of Digital and worked at online channel Nowness. Further back she founded Quark Films.
Higgs joins a team of over 60 staff, who look after a client roster that includes Academy Award winning directors Steve McQueen, Edward Berger and Lenny Abrahamson; Academy Award winning writer Christopher Hampton; Mood creator Nicôle Lecky; Enola Holmes and His Dark Materials scribe Jack Thorne; playwrights such as Sir David Hare and Lucy Kirkwood; and several others. It...
- 7/20/2023
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Casarotto Ramsey & Associates — the U.K.-based talent agency representing writers, directors, literary properties and heads of department across film, TV and theater — has appointed Anna Higgs in the new role of managing director.
Higgs, who counts more than three decades working in the industry across an array of diverse roles, was most recently director of entertainment partnerships at Meta, previously worked at Film4 and has just been re-elected to BAFTA’s film committee, which she chaired for two years (being central to its major awards review). She joins Casarotto Ramsey in August, reporting directly to agency’s board, and has been brought in to oversee the business and drive its strategic development and direction.
“The central thread of my career has been working with the most exceptional storytellers to connect their work with audiences in myriad ways, along with a dedication to inclusion and equity at the highest strategic...
Higgs, who counts more than three decades working in the industry across an array of diverse roles, was most recently director of entertainment partnerships at Meta, previously worked at Film4 and has just been re-elected to BAFTA’s film committee, which she chaired for two years (being central to its major awards review). She joins Casarotto Ramsey in August, reporting directly to agency’s board, and has been brought in to oversee the business and drive its strategic development and direction.
“The central thread of my career has been working with the most exceptional storytellers to connect their work with audiences in myriad ways, along with a dedication to inclusion and equity at the highest strategic...
- 7/19/2023
- by Alex Ritman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Higgs takes up her position at the leading agency, whose client list includes Steve McQueen and Edward Berger, in August.
UK film, TV and theatre talent agency Casarotto Ramsay & Associates has appointed Anna Higgs as its new managing director.
An advisory board has also been formed of six of the company’s agents and executives, to shape the company’s evolution and growth.
Higgs takes up her position next month in August 2023. She was most recently director of entertainment partnerships at Meta, with previous roles including creative director at global video channel Nowness and commissioner and head of digital,...
UK film, TV and theatre talent agency Casarotto Ramsay & Associates has appointed Anna Higgs as its new managing director.
An advisory board has also been formed of six of the company’s agents and executives, to shape the company’s evolution and growth.
Higgs takes up her position next month in August 2023. She was most recently director of entertainment partnerships at Meta, with previous roles including creative director at global video channel Nowness and commissioner and head of digital,...
- 7/19/2023
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Peaky Blinders, Halo, and Robin Hood director Otto Bathurst has signed up to helm and co-produce Stone Village Television and BlackBox Multimedia’s latest adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
Bathurst will co-produce the premium TV series through his One Big Picture banner, the production company he co-founded with Toby Leslie in 2017. The company is attached to Showtime and Paramount+’s $200 million venture to reimagine gaming franchise Halo for television.
The Frankenstein project was first announced earlier this year. Penned by Bradley McManus (Bodyguard of Lies) and set in pre-Victorian Europe, it focuses on the behaviors and obsessions of a scientist exploring the fine thread between life and death.
Bathurst said: “We are inspired by this opportunity to take a really deep dive into the original text and deliver the arrestingly relevant truth that Shelley has so powerfully embedded in this incredible story. To be able to deliver a...
Bathurst will co-produce the premium TV series through his One Big Picture banner, the production company he co-founded with Toby Leslie in 2017. The company is attached to Showtime and Paramount+’s $200 million venture to reimagine gaming franchise Halo for television.
The Frankenstein project was first announced earlier this year. Penned by Bradley McManus (Bodyguard of Lies) and set in pre-Victorian Europe, it focuses on the behaviors and obsessions of a scientist exploring the fine thread between life and death.
Bathurst said: “We are inspired by this opportunity to take a really deep dive into the original text and deliver the arrestingly relevant truth that Shelley has so powerfully embedded in this incredible story. To be able to deliver a...
- 6/21/2021
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
Welsh helmer Prano Bailey-Bond didn’t call herself a horror director until someone beat her to it. “I didn’t realize I was one for a long time,” she says. As a teenager she was obsessed with David Lynch, Harmony Korine and Quentin Tarantino; college added a Douglas Sirk fixation to the mix.
“I loved dark worlds, dark minds, characters who were slightly repressed, but not just in one genre. Then the first short I made was about this god-fearing woman who hasn’t really lived, and ends up cutting a child’s heart out and eating it. As you do,” she jokes. “Some time later, I had submitted for a funding application, and they phoned me up and said, ‘We see you’re a horror director and we have a script to show you.’ But that was the first time I’d thought of myself that way.”
With her debut feature “Censor,...
“I loved dark worlds, dark minds, characters who were slightly repressed, but not just in one genre. Then the first short I made was about this god-fearing woman who hasn’t really lived, and ends up cutting a child’s heart out and eating it. As you do,” she jokes. “Some time later, I had submitted for a funding application, and they phoned me up and said, ‘We see you’re a horror director and we have a script to show you.’ But that was the first time I’d thought of myself that way.”
With her debut feature “Censor,...
- 2/25/2021
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Author Helen Monks Takhar and former Sky exec Danny Takhar have set up a new London-based TV production company and have optioned their first drama project.
The married couple have established Second Generation and have acquired the TV rights to Ashley Hickson-Lovence’s debut novel The 392, a bus-based terrorism thriller.
The 392 is set entirely over a soaring 36 minutes on a London rush-hour bus, exploring, through a revelatory state-of-the-nation story, what divides and unites a vivid cast of apparently unconnected passengers when a suspected terrorist boards.
Second Generation has picked up the rights from storytelling lifestyle brand and publisher Own It! in a deal negotiated by Crystal Mahey-Morgan and Anthony Mestriner of Casarotto Ramsay Associates.
This comes as the pair are set to exec produce an adaptation of Monks Takhar’s own upcoming novel Precious You with eOne and British production company Mam Tor Productions.
Monks Takhar is a journalist and...
The married couple have established Second Generation and have acquired the TV rights to Ashley Hickson-Lovence’s debut novel The 392, a bus-based terrorism thriller.
The 392 is set entirely over a soaring 36 minutes on a London rush-hour bus, exploring, through a revelatory state-of-the-nation story, what divides and unites a vivid cast of apparently unconnected passengers when a suspected terrorist boards.
Second Generation has picked up the rights from storytelling lifestyle brand and publisher Own It! in a deal negotiated by Crystal Mahey-Morgan and Anthony Mestriner of Casarotto Ramsay Associates.
This comes as the pair are set to exec produce an adaptation of Monks Takhar’s own upcoming novel Precious You with eOne and British production company Mam Tor Productions.
Monks Takhar is a journalist and...
- 10/2/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
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