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Theatre, Film and TV
Joe Phillips
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Theatre, Film and TV
Jenn Lambert
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SJ
Clarkson
SJ is an accomplished director working in both the UK and US. She is currently directing and exec producing the adaptation of best-selling novel Anatomy of a Scandal, by Sarah Vaughan, for Netflix. She directed an episode of Jesse Armstrong's Emmy winning series Succession and she directed and exec produced Collateral for BBC Two, written by David Hare and starring Carey Mulligan. She was also lead director and exec producer on Marvel’s The Defenders for Netflix.
Prior to this SJ was lead director and exec produced on Netflix’s Jessica Jones, also for Marvel. Variety said of the show “(It’s) not just a contender for the title Best Marvel-related TV Property; in a supremely crowded TV scene, it is one of the year’s most distinctive new dramas.”
SJ directed episode 4 of HBO’s Vinyl, which was EP’d by Martin Scorsese and Mick Jagger. She also directed and Exec Produced Nick Hornby’s five part adaptation of Love Nina for See-Saw Films and BBC starring Helena Bonham Carter. The show premiered at the Berlin Film festival.
Prior to that she directed the pilot of USA’s action adventure event series, Dig, for Keshet which starred Jason Isaacs and Anne Heche and was written and Executive Produced by Gideon Raff (Homeland, Tyrant). She directed the pilot of Frank Spotnitz's Hunted for BBC/HBO Cinemax, which Kudos/Shine executive produced and starred Melissa George.
SJ has directed episodes of Turn (AMC series from Craig Silverstein/Barry Josephson starring Jamie Bell), The Bridge, Hostages, Orange is the New Black, Smash, Bates Motel, Heroes, Dexter, Ugly Betty, House and Alan Ball’s HBO/Cinemax series Banshee. SJ has worked extensively on the BAFTA and International Emmy Award winning show Life on Mars as well as on the acclaimed series Hustle. She co-created Mistresses for BBC/ ECOSSE in the UK and directed the opening run of the UK episodes. She directed the feature Toast for Ruby Films / BBC which is based on the best-selling, autobiographical novel by renowned food writer and chef Nigel Slater and written by Billy Elliot scribe Lee Hall, which starred Helena Bonham Carter and Freddie Highmore.
The Guardian named SJ one of the top 50 most powerful women in film and television in 2012.
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Theatre, Film and TV
Joe Phillips
+44 (0)20 7393 4459
Email Joe Phillips -
Theatre, Film and TV
Jenn Lambert
+44 (0) 207 393 4459
Email Jenn Lambert
CV
Television
Director & Executive Producer
New drama series based on the best-selling book by Sarah Vaughan.
Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist team up to fight crime in New York City.
Nina Stibbe's fascinating letters from the heart of 1980s literary London.
Director
HBO series following a dysfunctional American global-media family.
A New York music executive in the late 1970s hustles to make a career out of the city's diverse music scene.
A former super-heroine decides to reboot her life by becoming a private investigator.
An FBI agent stationed in Jerusalem is investigating a murder of a young female archaeologist, but unearths an artefact that will change the course of history and a conspiracy 2000 years in the making.
The surgeon who is about to operate on the US president is taken hostage by a rogue FBI agent. She is forced into an impossible dilemma when she's ordered to botch the operation in order to save her family.
Female prison drama. Follows the story of inmate who is imprisoned for 15 months after smuggling drug money for a friend.
US version of the acclaimed Danish/Swedish co-production. Two detectives are drawn into a complex case to track take down a serial killer operating across the Texas-Chihuahua border.