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Theatre, Film and TV
Jessica Cooper
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Oliver
Lansley
EP, series creator, writer, director and actor working in the UK and the US.
Oliver Lansley is a British, Neuro-divergent writer, director and performer who works across stage and screen.
For television, Oli has collaborated with many key global broadcasters including HBO Drama, FX, Amazon, C4 and the BBC.
His original series include: FM starring Chris O’Dowd, Daniel Kaluuya and Ophelia Lovibond (ITV2), Whites starring Alan Davies and Darren Boyd (BBC Two) and Flack Series 1 and 2 starring Anna Paquin, Sophie Okonedo and Sam Neill (Amazon). Oliver also directs for both stage and screen, his most recent screen work being on his own show Flack for Amazon Prime.
Oliver is also Artistic Director of the multi award-winning and pioneering theatre company, Les Enfants Terribles. The company has created many ground-breaking productions, including the Olivier Award nominated Alice’s Adventures Underground - which has enjoyed sell out runs in London and Shanghai; Dinner at the Twits; The Game’s Afoot for Madame Tussauds; Inside Pussy Riot, United Queendom and The House with Chicken Legs (based on the best selling book by Sophie Anderson). Les Enfants also have their own immersive venue, The Labyrinth, opening in London in 2022 and are just about to launch their first VR immersive experience for Occulus.
In 2021 Oli co-founded Wild Child: an organisation dedicated to creating social mobility through the power of the arts. In it inaugural year, Oli mentored 6 writers from diverse and unrepresented backgrounds, and this year it will be building on that success by launching it’s Directors programme alongside it’s writer’s scheme ‘WriteWild’.
Oliver is also a successful actor having appeared in many shows including Sherlock, Vigil, Dr Who, Misfits, Flack as well as playing Kenny Everett in the BAFTA winning biopic The Best Possible Taste, for which he received an RTS nomination for best actor.
Oliver has also recently been commissioned to write his first comic book by AfterShock comics.
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Theatre, Film and TV
Jessica Cooper
+44 (0)20 7393 4488
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A piece packed with fun, exuberant musical numbers, amusingly irreverent performances and inventive theatricality.
Nick Ahad
The Guardian on The House With Chicken Legs
"It’s the most deliciously dark entry in a wave of series and films that capture the unvarnished drudgery of assistants, agents and other decidedly unglamorous entertainment-industry cogs."
Judy Berman
Time on Flack - Series 2
CV
Television
Writer & Creator
Original comedy drama about a woman trying to keep her life on track whilst dealing with the funny and often fucked-up lives of her PR clients.
Slapstick comedy observing a team of idiot robbers who attempt to rob an auction house.
Part of Sky's silent comedy season.
Co-written with Ian Curtis. Comedy series following a group of fame-hungry friends who run a daily, indie-inspired radio show.
Jet black psychological drama in development with Hartswood Films about a reformed serial killer.
Thriller in development with Hat Trick Mercurio about a woman who falls in love with a man accused of murdering his wife.
Drama in development with DNA Films and FX exploring toxic masculinity, set within the world of contemporary dance.
Contemporary, edgy YA Adaptation of the classic British comic strip.
Writer
A former star of a popular boyband longs for the life he once had before deciding to launch his solo career.
A short-comedy drama: a man and his dog are put to the test.
Theatre
Writer & Director
Adaptation of Sophie Anderson's much loved book.
Inspired by the true story of a miner who became entombed underground in a collapsed tunnel during World War One.
Olivier-nominated immersive theatre production, which reopened for a second run at the Vaults Theatre in 2017.