PEOPLE IN THE MEDIA
THE MAKEUP ARTISTS
Michelle Abels
Michelle Abels is a celebrity tv and film makeup artist of many years
standing. She has worked on numerous movies and tv
programmes including "Robin Hood","This Morning", "Top Gear",
"East Enders" and "Dr Who".
To book Michelle contact her at:
or Mobile 07850054634
THE PHOTOGRAPHERS
Ben Yacobi
Ben Yacobi is a photo journalist with a growing reputation especially in the music and entertainment industry. His regular clients include Universal
Island Records and the BBC, and he is
currently working both on and off stage with
Ivor Novello winning band The Feeling.
See some of Ben’s work at his website:
THE PRODUCERS
Danny Greenstone
Danny Greenstone's life for the past few years has been one long globe trotting adventure. Having left FremantleMedia Ltd. in 2007 , as of 1 May 2011 he was made Headof Entertainment for them and is responsible for creating, masterminding, mentoring and producing entertainment for the Nordic countries, Central Easter Europe and The Balkans.
Professionally, he has written, produced and directed
for radio, television and theatre, creating original material, formatting long-running shows and
constantly ensuring that the quality never fades.
He co-created BBC Radio 4’s News Quiz and, for
television he was at least partly responsible for
Game For A Laugh,
Surprise Surprise!,
You Bet,
Child’s Play,
The Main Event,
Going For Gold,
Small Talk and many more.
For Fremantle Media Danny helped to develop the
format for Pop Idol.
He has been privileged to produce and work with
some of the biggest names in the world of
showbusiness and journalism:
Barry Norman, Lord Bernard Miles,
Sir John Mills, Michael Parkinson,
Bob Monkhouse, Michael Aspel,
Alan Coren, Tim Vine, Steve Coogan,
Stephen Fry, Barry Took, Ronnie
Corbett, Des Lynam, Chris Tarrant,
Willie Rushton, Bruce Forsyth,
Bill Tidy, Simon Cowell… and, really,
the list just goes on.
Liz Trubridge
is a freelance television and film producer who started her media career as a PA in BBC Schools Radio. She
then was accepted on to the television Panel where
she moved on into Drama working as a Production Manager before becoming a Producer.
Her body of work includes.
(2010)
A Short Stay in Switzerland (Producer, BBC)
(2009)
Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll, (Producer, BBC)
(1999)
From Time to Time (Producer, Lionhead)
(2009)
Pas de Trois (Producer)
(2002)
The Riff Raff Element
(Producer, BBC)
(1993)
Number 27 (Production Manager)
He's Asking for Me (Production Manager)
Wynne & Penkovsky (Production Manager)
The Devil's Disciple (Production Manager)
Alive & Kicking (1st AD)
An Affair in Mind (1st AD)
A Matter of Choice for
Billy (1st AD)
The Combination (Production Assistant)
Across the Water (Production Assistant)
Tales from 1001 Nights
(Production Assistant, BBC)
Antony & Cleopatra
(Production Assistant, BBC)
Dr Who
(Production Manager, BBC )
Of those productions she has worked on,
Awards have gone to:
- Bafta Awards, Best Series (Nominated),
1993
The Riff Raff Element
Sandford St Martin's Religious
TV Awards, Best TV Film (Nominated),
2009
A Short Stay in Switzerland
Monte Carlo TV Festival,
Best TV Film (Nominated), 2009
A Short Stay in Switzerland
Broadcast Awards, Best Film, 2010
A Short Stay in Switzerland
Broadcast Press Guild Awards, Best
Single Drama (Nominated), 2010
A Short Stay in Switzerland
Royal Television Society awards,
Best Single Drama (Nominated), 2010
A Short Stay in Switzerland
Chicago Children's Film Festival,
Best of the Festival, 2009
From Time to Time
Bafta Television Awards,
Best Single Drama (Nominated), 2010
A Short Stay in Switzerland
Seattle Film Festival ,
Best Family Film, 2010
From Time to Time
Fiuggi Family Film Festival,
Best Film, 2010
From Time to Time
Prix Europa, TV Fiction
(Nominated), 2010
THE SINGERS
Coralie Raven is a British singer. She has
appeared on TV (Live) Jack Harris Show in Florida
and on radio in that same state. In 2009 she sang
in Jim Croce's Bar in San Diego has appeared in
Egypt in top hotels.
She has sung for the Nigerian Government in The
Hague and at dinner parties – Coralie is a Blues/jazz singer/songwriter.
She has appeared in commercials on TV and
magazines - all the usual stuff theatre people do!
She has worked with top class musicians including guitarist/singer
Mitch Hiller, keyboard player
Paul Hirsh, Paul Higgs -multi-musician
(MD for National Theatre London)
drummer Graham Cuttill and Ben
Hacketdouble bass.
take a peek and perhaps listen to the numbers.
She wrote a couple of them herself!
THE VISION MIXERS/DIRECTORS
Sonia Lovett is a freelance television visionmixer
and director with an historic career at the BBC and Thames.
She has experience in all types of programmes in particular:
- music - classical and popular, opera, ballet, drama,
sit-coms, soaps, children's, light entertainment and
cookery.
Her recent works have included directing/vision
mixing 5 plays for the National Performance
Archive (Victoria & Albert Museum). including "Enron" (Noel Coward Theatre),
Joe Turner's Come and Gone (Young Vic) and
Woman in Black (Fortune Theatre).
In addition, she has worked on a number of
Proms (BBC) and the Last Night of the Welsh Proms (S4C).
This year has been a very busy one so far for Sonia. She has been working on Emmerdale, Coronation Street and some corporate work for Merryll Lynch.
Sonia has some updated news. She is now co-presenting QVC's new knitting show, Knitting Studio: Winter Warmers at 11am on Tuesday 3rd January, and can't wait to get started!
sonialovett@yahoo.co.uk
07721 519444
THE WRITERS
David Nobbs
David Nobbs was born in Orpington, Kent, in March, 1935. He read Classics at Cambridge before
taking up English.
He got a second class degree and wrote for various publications.
He worked on the Sheffield Star but claims to have
been the world’s worst newspaper reporter.
His break came when he telephoned the BBC satire
show, That Was The Week, That Was.
He soon began to contribute regularly to the show,
at first on his own and then with Peter Tinniswood.
This led to many other shows. He contributed to
The Frost Report, Frost on Sunday and to The Two Ronnies throughout its long run, writing the Pisprununciation monologue and the Rook
Restaurant sketch, but not Four Candles!
He also wrote for Dick Emery, Ken Dodd,
Tommy Cooper, Frankie Howard, Jimmy Tarbuck,
and, with his great friend Barry Cryer, did no less
than 68 shows with Les Dawson. His first novel, The
Itinerant Lodger, was eventually published.
David wrote two more novels before his break-
Michael Birch's adaptation of David's novel
by the Esk Valley Theatre in the North Yorkshire
village of Glaisdale this August (2010).
David's long-awaited new novel,
It is a romantic comedy, spanning thirty years in the
lives of Timothy Pickering and Naomi Walls.
Update: "Obstacles To Young Love" has been shortlisted for the Melissa Nathan Prize for Comedy Romance.
Peter Cox, MBE Peter Cox is an award-
winning freelance writer whose stage plays have been produced in venues ranging from the Wales
Millennium Centre, Belfast Opera House and the
Royal National Theatre to miner’s welfare halls.
His television drama work has been broadcast in
more than twenty countries and he has written radio drama for BBC Radio 3 & 4 and Radio Wales.
He also has extensive experience in the community
arts sector with many years in artistic leadership, mentoring and volunteer management roles.
Peter worked on the No Fit State Circus on their
outdoor summer show in Pontardawe called Parklife
in the summer of 2010 and worked in Scotland on a
and is set in the very militant Fife Coalfield during
Current: Peter received his MBE on Friday 8 April 2011.
Sharron Livingston
Sharron Livingston is the publisher of a series of
Channel Hoppers Guides - fact
packed, pocket sized guides for
Channel Hoppers to Northern France.
These are available in print and now
and
The online series will grow to incorporate
all the major destinations in France and
Belgium.
She is also a freelance travel writer as well
as editor at The Travel Magazine
www.thetravelmagazine.net.
She has been the travel expert at
Talksport Radio, regularly heard on
Traveltalk radio and now on Play Radio
UK. She also appeared on the
BBC Holiday Programme, GMTV,
CNN and Al Jazeerah TV as an expert
in travel.
Sharron now produces her own show,
Livingston's World on JNET Radio,
Thursdays 6.00pm - 9.00 pm.
Steve Saragossi Steve Saragossi is an Englishman living in Australian.
As a film historian and lecturer he has
written articles, essays, blogs, and film
school modules on film as well as
magazine articles, screenplays and is
working on two books.
In his other guise as a professional writer
he has written website copy, PR releases,
newsletters, blogs, white paper, award
submissions, speeches, proofing,
editing and more.
In summary Steve Saragossi can provide
the following writing services:
• Providing all written word requirements
- corporate work (white papers, manuals,
website copy, newsletters, tender submissions,
social media copy, PR Releases).
• Copywriting for campaigns
• Proofing.
• Creative writing including conceptual work,
treatments, scripts, script editing, screen
doctoring.
• Lecturer in film studies.
• Curator of film.
• Author of film related books, essays, articles.
• Film writing for magazines such as FilmInk
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