Artist
Accents & Dialects: American-Southern States, American-Standard, Derby*, Irish-Northern, Midlands-East*, Northern, RP, Yorkshire
Music & Dance: Ballet, Dance (general), Folk Singing, Guitar, Mezzo-Soprano, Modern Dance
Performance: Physical Theatre, Puppetry, Voice Over + Home Studio
Sports: Climbing*, Cycling*, Horse-riding, Skiing*, Stage Combat, Swimming, Vinyasa Yoga Instructor*
Vehicle Licences: Car Driving Licence
* = Native / Highly Skilled
Jón Atli Jónasson is considered one of Iceland’s foremost playwrights. His plays have been performed in London, Paris, Berlin, Stockholm, Copenhagen and Athens. He has written several scripts for film, most notably THE DEEP, produced by 101 Studios Iceland, based on his own play. It was shortlisted at the Academy Awards for best foreign feature in 2015
Jón Atli has been nominated for The Nordic Film Prize on three occasions. He was chosen as the Nordic Radio Dramatist in 2011. He has also written three novels, and his serialized radio drama based on the Guðmundur and Geirfinnur case (Iceland’s most notorious criminal case) won third price at Prix Europa in 2017.
Jon Atli co-wrote the first season of the acclaimed crime series ARCTIC CIRCLE (Ivalo, 2017), produced by Yellow Film in Finland and Bavaria Film in Germany. He has projects in various stages of development across multiple territories, including with Warner Bros. TV in Germany and Turbine Studios in the U.K. TOP OF THE ROCK, an original series he co-created, is in development with Truenorth in Iceland with Leslie Bibb attached to star. He also has an original crime drama, ODD CRIMES, currently in development with Neal Street.
Adam Smith is a highly experienced director, known for the 7-time Emmy winning LITTLE DORRIT (Claire Foy, Matthew Macfadyen), WORLD ON FIRE (Sean Bean, Lesley Manville), SKINS (Nicholas Hoult, Joe Dempsie, Dev Patel) and DOCTOR WHO (Matt Smith, Karen Gillan); Adam’s was the first episode for Matt’s iteration of the show, and includes the memorable ‘The Time of the Angels’.
Adam’s known for his stylish, visceral and captivating work that blends cutting-edge technology with a unique human touch. He began his career in music videos, directing numerous iconic works including The Chemical Brothers’ Galvanize, and The Streets’ Blinded by the Lights.
His debut feature, TRESSPASS AGAINST US (Michael Fassbender, Brendan Gleeson and Barry Keoghan) was nominated for multiple awards – including Debut Director and Best Actor categories. His documentaries WOT DO YOU CALL IT? (about Grime music) and A.I.P.S (about a group of Englishmen re-enacting the Vietnam War in Kent) were commissioned by C4.
Adam’s commercial work includes projects for Nike (starring Wayne Rooney) and Jaguar (starring Damian Lewis). And over the years he’s continued his long-term collaboration with The Chemical Brothers, creating and directing the visuals for their tours and live events, most recently for Tomora (Chemical Brothers’ Tom Rowlands’ collaboration with Norwegian popstar Aurora).
Rowan Athale made his feature-film debut as both writer and director with the acclaimed heist thriller – THE RISE. Premiering internationally at TIFF, Rowan and the film went on to be nominated for numerous awards, including the Douglas Hickox Award at the BIFA’s, Best Newcomer at the BFI LFF and the Discovery award at TIFF.
Rowan recently directed his second feature film, STRANGE BUT TRUE. A noir-thriller, the film is produced by Fred Berger, Christina Piovesan and Brian Kavanaugh-Jones and stars Greg Kinnear, Amy Ryan, Nick Robinson, Margaret Qualley, Brian Cox and Blythe Danner. CBS Films and Lionsgate released the film in the US in fall, 2019.
Rowan is currently casting his next feature as director – Sci-Fi Thriller, LITTLE AMERICA. Written by Rowan Athale, LITTLE AMERICA will be produced by Michael Bay and Platinum Dunes.
Rowan has received several accolades as director and writer, including being named a Screen International Star of Tomorrow prior to making his feature debut; and being named as a BAFTA Breakthrough Brit upon it’s release.
Rowan is also a partner in British production company Hook Pictures.
Ben Caird is a British/American writer, director and producer born and raised in London. In 2011 he graduated with an MA in Filmmaking from The London Film School and moved to Los Angeles, where he lived for 10 years, before returning to London. Ben has created UK crime thriller TARGET MAN with Hero Fiennes-Tiffin (YOUNG SHERLOCK) attached in the lead role. Dimitri Doganis and Sam Tipper-Hale are producing for Raw (THE IMPOSTER, CRIME 101).
In the US, Ben’s feature script HEATSEEKER is being produced by Julie Yorn’s LBI Entertainment (HELL OR HIGHWATER) and Jamie Foxx’s Foxx Hole Productions (THE BURIAL). Ben also has projects with Paul Brooks’ Gold Circle Films (PITCH PERFECT, MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING) and Tommy Oliver’s Confluential Films (HAMLET, FANCY DANCE).
Ben created interactive audio drama WATCH DOGS: TRUTH for Audible based Ubisoft’s hit video game. Making The Guardian’s ‘Best Podcasts of the Week’ in November2024 it stars T’Nia Miller, Freema Agyeman, Gary Beadle, Russell Tovey, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett and David Morrissey.
Ben is writing the adaptation and producing a feature of A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM with Breakthru Films (Hugh Welchman) and Sixteen Films (Rebecca O’Brien, Jack Thomas-O’Brien). The film will use Breakthru Films’ distinctive oil-painted animation style. Co-directing are Hugh Welchman (LOVING VINCENT) and stage veteran John Caird (LES MISERABLES, SPIRITED AWAY). Clint Mansell (REQUIEM FOR A DREAM) will compose the score.
Ben’s US feature film debut as writer/director, HALFWAY, starring Quinton Aaron (THE BLIND SIDE) Amy Pietz (CAROLINE IN THE CITY) Jeff DeMunn (BILLIONS) and Marcus Henderson (GET OUT), was nominated for the Discovery Award at the 2017 BIFA’s as well as winning multiple awards in its US festival run.
Ben produced the Creative England backed debut feature of Midlands director Jon Stanford entitled LONG FORGOTTEN FIELDS, which premiered at Raindance Film Festival nominated for Best UK Feature Film.
Writer, director and producer EmJay Bassett began her career as part of the ‘new wave of British horror’ at the start of the millennium and has so far made nine feature films across multiple genres – including, horror, action, thriller and fantasy as well as directing some of the most viewed television in recent years.
Her feature credits include her first horror movie ‘DEATHWATCH’ with Andy Serkis, Jamie Bell and Matthew Rhys, the fantasy action adventure ‘SOLOMON KANE’ with James Purefoy, Max Von Sydow and Pete Postlethwaite, ‘SILENT HILL: REVELATION’ with Kit Harington, Adelaide Clemens and Sean Bean, and, most recently the remake of the classic fantasy character ‘RED SONJA’ released in 2025.
EmJay also directs extensively in television. She was executive producer, writer and director of the international hit TV military-action series ‘STRIKE BACK’ for HBO/Sky, co-exec producer, writer and director with Sam Raimi on ‘ASH VS EVIL DEAD’ TV show for Starz and has recently directed episodes of global hit shows ALTERED CARBON with Anthony Mackie, ’REACHER’ with Alan Ritchson, FUBAR with Arnold Schwarzenegger and ‘TERMINAL LIST’ with Chris Pratt and Taylor Kitsch. She has recently wrapped NCIS:Tony and Ziva for Paramount+ and the Reacher spinoff show ‘NEAGLEY’ for Amazon/Skydance.
Brendan is an award-winning writer, actor and director for TV, Theatre and Film based between London and Australia.
He wrote and directed the ABC’s THE OUTLAW MICHAEL HOWE and scripted and appeared in the feature film SAVE YOU LEGS! Brendan was a staff writer and star of the acclaimed Foxtel TV series LOVE MY WAY, also on Channel 5. Many of his episodes for LOVE MY WAY were nominated for Australian Writers Guild Awards (AWGIE) for Outstanding Screenplay.
Brendan also wrote two episodes of the multi award-winning series, THE SLAP, for which he won the AACTA Best Screenplay prize for his episode 3 ‘Harry’. THE SLAP was nominated for both BAFTA and EMMY awards, before being remade on NBC in America. Brendan also wrote on the ABC TV adaptation of the popular children’s book MY PLACE for the same company, Matchbox Pictures.
Since then, Brendan adapted his best-selling novel, PLUM, for ABC TV, also co-producing and playing the title role, garnering various nominations as writer and actor. He is currently in development on two original TV shows with Curio and Roadshow Entertainment
Brendan’s acting credits include DUNE: PROPHECY (HBO), AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER Paramount+’s CASTAWAYS (Paramount+), GAME OF THRONES (HBO) and the upcoming X (Apple) DISPATCHERS. His on-stage credits include YERMA opposite Billie Piper (Young Vic and Off-Broadway), LIFE OF GALILEO (Young Vic), THE CRUCIBLE (National Theatre) and LADY & THE SEA alongside Alicia Vikander and Andrew Lincoln (Bridge Theatre).
