Laurence Bowen is a multi BAFTA Award winning and Emmy nominated Producer who most recently executive producedThe Salisbury Poisonings for BBC1, the UK episodes of The New Pope starring Jude Law and John Malkovich, Porters for UKTV/Dave and The Eichmann Show for BBC2 starring Martin Freeman, Anthony LaPaglia and Rebecca Front. He was presented with the Monte Carlo International Producer Of The Year Award, has won RTS, Broadcast and Chicago Film Festival Awards, received Prix Jeunesse, Rose D’or, Emmy and BANFF nominations and last year won The Japan Prize.

His work includes Suburban Shootout (starring Tom Hiddleston, Ruth Wilson, Anna Chancellor, Amelia Bullmore and Felicity Montagu), Stone Scissors Paper(starring Juliet Stevenson and Ken Stott), Dual Balls(starring Lesley Manville), Gates (starring Tom Ellis, Joanne Page and Sue Johnston), Miranda (starring Christina Ricci, John Simm, John Hurt, Kyle MacLachlan and Julian Rhind-Tutt), My Life As A Popat (starring Kulvinder Ghir and Shaheen Khan) and The English Harem (starring Art Malik and Martine McCutcheon).

Chris is one of the UK’s leading Drama Producers, responsible for, amongst others, Les Miserables (dir. Tom Shankland, starring Dominic West, David Oyelowo, Lily Collins) for BBC1 and PBS/Masterpiece, Apple Tree Yard (dir. Jessica Hobbs, starring Emily Watson and Ben Chaplin) for BBC1, River (dir. Richard Laxton, starring Stellan Skarsgard, Nicola Walker and Lesley Manville) and Run (dir. Charles Martin, starring Olivia Colman and Lennie James) for C4.

In an earlier life he was the Executive Producer of the Worlds First Arabic Webdrama Shankaboot, helping to create the multi-award winning 50+ episode Beirut based short form series, and developed and produced Dirk Gently (dir. Damon Thomas, starring Stephen Mangan) for the BBC and the cult comedy series ‘This is Jinsy’ with his former company ‘The Welded Tandem Picture Company’ for SKY

In an even earlier life he worked in the fields of Factual and Entertainment as an Executive Producer, Series Producer and Producer/Director for ITV Studios where he made a wide variety of shows. His first network TV Credit, and still one which he’s singularly proud, was directing the holiday insert films in Cilla Black’s Blind Date.

Since joining Dancing Ledge in 2016, Toby has worked across the slate as Development Executive and Head of Development, helping to develop Delhi Crime for Netflix, script-editing Porters for Dave and The Salisbury Poisonings for the BBC. Most recently he has story produced The Responder, for the BBC. As Executive Producer, Toby works across a variety of projects, including Wedding Season for Disney+.

Before coming to Dancing Ledge, Toby spent a decade in entertainment and children’s TV, working with a range of talent across a variety of formats, culminating in 2 years as a Producer at CBBC.

Gillian joined the Dancing Ledge team in early 2022 as Head of Development. After a brief dalliance with science, Gillian found a love of story and over the past 13 years has worked in development and production for a raft of indies as well as commissioning at Channel 4 and BBC Drama.

An experienced Script Executive and Story Editor of series, serials and singles, she has worked on a diverse range of dramas including Idris Elba’s BBC Three Takeover series Five by Five, the International Emmy-award-winning Utopia by Dennis Kelly, Netflix’s Been So Long by Che Walker and Andrew Davies’s Fanny Hill.

Prior to this role, Gillian worked as a Development Producer on returnable and serial dramas, while creating and producing a script callout programme for under-represented and unagented screenwriters. She is committed to finding and supporting the voices of stories that aren’t being told.

Beth joined the team in October 2017 after working on the PR, production and agency sides of the TV business. She was also a Freelance Script Reader for various companies, including Pinewood Studios. She studied Psychology at the University of Nottingham.

She’s the first port of call for new submissions and loves working with new talent. She works across the whole slate and manages the various schemes Dancing Ledge runs for emerging screenwriters.

Jess has been a part of the Dancing Ledge team since 2019. She started her TV career in the world of factual development as a researcher for the award-winning Insight TWI. She then worked as a book-to-film reader and researcher for Dialogue, as well working freelance as a researcher for Sister. She finally landed at Dancing Ledge. She began as a researcher but soon made her way to more editorial roles. She is now a Development Executive. She is also script editing on multiple projects.

Jess is passionately committed to fostering and developing emerging, diverse talent. She hopes to bring to screens stories yet untold and forms of storytelling unexplored. She works across the slate on both comedy and drama, with a focus on factual.

Carmel joined the team in late 2020. She studied in Galway, Ireland and qualified as a CIMA accountant at British Airways but left the airline industry for the joys of television in 2009 when she joined BBC Worldwide (now Studios) as Head of Finance. She spent 5 years in the Content division, working with many of the leading UK Indies and representing BBC Worldwide’s investments as both a distributor and minority shareholder. Carmel then moved on to senior finance roles at Sony and Lookout Point and joins us now from Banijay, where she spent 3 years as UK CFO, working across both the scripted and non -scripted divisions.

Jacquie was welcomed into the Dancing Ledge family as Head of Production in 2021, following a successful 25 year freelance career working across an eclectic mix of TV, Film & documentaries.

In her previous role as a Head of Production and Production Executive at BBC Studios , the productions that she oversaw included Time, Luther, Dr Who, Our Girl, The Watch, Silent Witness, We Hunt Together, Smother, Rillington Place, Babs and the BAFTA Winning Three Girls.

Before joining the BBC, Jacquie had worked as a freelance Line Producer and Producer, her credits include prestigious dramas such as My Mad Fat Diary, One Child, Undercover, Secret Diary of a Call Girl, The Last Kingdom, Brighton Rock, The Boys are Back and Miss Julie.

Dave joined the team in the summer of 2021 after leaving the BBC where he had been working for the previous 4 years. Way back in 1986 he was the first production accountant on a BBC drama, a show called Fortunes of War and then went on to work as a freelance on a variety of projects such as London’s Burning, What We Did On Our Holiday, DCI Banks, Luther, Good Karma Hospital, Our Girl and Tutankhamun for ITV, Left Bank, Tiger Aspect before returning to the BBC as the Financial Controller on Good Omens. When the show finished and had nearly destroyed his interest in working in drama he joined Jacquie and Georgia in the BBC Studios Drama production management team working on such projects as The Watch and Silent Witness and Smother.

Georgia joined the Dancing Ledge team in mid 2021 after three years at BBC Studios in Drama Production, working across programmes such as Time, Silent Witness, Our Girl, We Hunt Together, and The Watch. Prior to joining BBC Studios, Georgia worked for Endemol Shine Group in non-scripted entertainment and factual format development, and on the international rollout of titles such as Big Brother, Hunted and All Together Now. Before moving to London, Georgia’s first job in TV was working for the Australian indie Matchbox Pictures.

Margaux joined the Dancing Ledge team in the summer of 2022, after working as PA and Tour Assistant to British singer / songwriter, Gary Barlow.

She studied Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Sydney, and moved to the UK in 2019 to pursue her passion for TV and Film. It was after having completed an ‘Acting for Stage’ diploma at RADA that she discovered her true love; scriptwriting.

Along the way she has worked in social media, content management and as a production assistant in multiple experiential creative agencies and indie film companies.