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Theatre, Film and TV
Amanda Davis
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Ben
Taylor
Ben has directed a long list of celebrated comedies from the multi-award winning and BAFTA nominated Cardinal Burns to the hugely popular and BAFTA winning Catastrophe.
Ben set up Catastrophe with writers and leads, Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney, and received a BAFTA nomination for Best Director. After directing three series of the Channel 4 comedy, Ben went on to work with Sharon again on HBO series Divorce, starring Sarah Jessica Parker.
Ben has since set up and directed the critically acclaimed Sex Education for Eleven and Netflix, starring Gillian Anderson and Asa Butterfield; and Year of the Rabbit for Objective Fiction, starring Matt Berry. Ben has recently directed and executive-produced the third series of Sex Education and is now working with Sally Wainwright on 18th century adventure series The Ballad of Renegade Nell for Disney+.
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Theatre, Film and TV
Amanda Davis
+44 (0)20 7393 4457
Email Amanda Davis
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It’s the brilliant thing about Catastrophe too that, under a pile of knickers and all the filth, it is actually very sweet. Romantic, even. That and the fact that it is hilarious; the filth is top notch, glorious filth.
Sam Wollaston
The Guardian on Catastrophe Series 3
Different, in a good way: black but not bleak.
Andrew Billen
The Times on Cockroaches