NEAL STREET PRODUCTIONS - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Theatre Producer
- Trustee of ZooNation
Georgia Gatti joined Neal Street Productions as Theatre Producer in January 2022. Prior to Neal Street Productions, her most recent roles were as Executive Producer at Jonathan Church Theatre Productions, Producer at The Old Vic under the artistic directorship of Matthew Warchus and Associate Producer at Playful Productions.
Georgia's producing credits at The Old Vic include King Lear starring Glenda Jackson; Girl from the North Country (which won two Olivier Awards and went on to run in the West End, at the Public Theater, New York and Broadway); Present Laughter starring Andrew Scott; Lungs by Duncan Macmillan starring Claire Foy and Matt Smith; Stephen Beresford's adaptation of Ingmar Bergman's Fanny and Alexander; a new version of A Christmas Carol by Jack Thorne (also Broadway); Emma Rice's adaptation of Angela Carter's Wise Children (also UK Tour); Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead starring Daniel Radcliffe, Joshua McGuire and David Haig; A Monster Calls, which won the 2019 Best Family & Entertainment Olivier Award (also UK tour); The Hairy Ape (also Park Armory, New York); new musical Sylvia; All My Sons starring Sally Field and Bill Pullman and A Very Expensive Poison by Lucy Prebble, amongst many others.
Her producing credits at Playful Productions include the stage adaptation of Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies (West End and Broadway); the Donmar Warehouse production of The Weir (West End); The Audience by Peter Morgan (West End and Broadway); and American Buffalo starring Damian Lewis, John Goodman and Tom Sturridge (West End).
Georgia is a trustee of ZooNation: The Kate Prince Company and The Peggy Ramsay Foundation. Previous board memberships include Rifco Theatre Company. She also produces for choreographer, Drew McOnie, and The McOnie Company.
Job Titles:
- Neal Street As Our Development Coordinator
Jessica joined Neal Street as our Development Coordinator in May 2023. Prior to Neal Street, Jessica worked at Grey Seal Media as a Development Coordinator and has recently read for BFI Film funds and Edinburgh TV Festival writers' schemes.
Job Titles:
- Executive Producer for Neal Street
Julie is an Executive Producer for Neal Street working across the company's film and television slate. For Neal Street Julie developed and Executive Produced the Bafta nominated drama series Informer and most recently she served as a Co-Producer on the Oscar winning film 1917.
Lola is Head of Development at Neal Street Productions and has worked as a Script Executive on Britannia (Sky & Amazon) and Informer (BBC & Amazon). Prior to joining Neal Street Productions, Lola worked at various Independent Production Companies in an array of roles which have included Head of Development and Story Producer - in addition to this she has also been a University Visiting Practitioner.
Job Titles:
- Executive Producer
- Chairman of the Charleston Trust
Pippa Harris established Neal Street Productions in 2003, alongside Sam Mendes and Caro Newling, and runs the company's Film and TV division together with Nicolas Brown. Formerly a Chair of BAFTA, Pippa is currently BAFTA's Vice President for Television.
Since the formation of Neal Street Productions, Pippa has produced Starter for Ten, Stuart A Life Backwards, and co-produced Jarhead. She also executive produced Things We Lost in the Fire, Away We Go and the Oscar-nominated Revolutionary Road, as well as the feature documentary; We Are Many. In 2019, Pippa produced the First World War epic, 1917, directed by Sam Mendes and co-written by Sam Mendes and Krysty Wilson-Cairns, starring George MacKay, Dean-Charles Chapman, Mark Strong, Andrew Scott, Richard Madden, Colin Firth and Benedict Cumberbatch. The film has won over 100 awards, including the Producers Guild Award for Best Picture, 2 Golden Globes for Best Picture and Best Director, 3 Academy Awards for Best Cinematography, VFX and Sound Mixing, and 7 BAFTAs including Best Film, Best British Film and Best Director. Most recently, Pippa is producing Empire of Light, starring Olivia Colman, Micheal Ward, Colin Firth and Toby Jones. Empire of Light has been written and directed by Sam Mendes and will be released theatrically by Searchlight Pictures.
Pippa is Executive Producer on BBC/PBS's award-winning Call the Midwife. The show is one of the most watched TV dramas in the UK and filming on the 12th series will commence in early 2022. She also executive produced three series of Britannia, Jez Butterworth's highly acclaimed drama for Sky Atlantic, as well as John Logan's multi-award winning Penny Dreadful and Penny Dreadful: City of Angels for Showtime. Previous projects for Neal Street which Pippa has executive produced include; the BAFTA winning The Hollow Crown - a series of Shakespeare films for the BBC/PBS, as well as a second series; The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses.
Previously, Pippa was the Head of Drama Commissioning for the BBC where her commissions included The Lost Prince, State of Play and Daniel Deronda. Pippa joined the BBC in 1997 as a Development Executive for BBC films before becoming the Executive Producer of BBC Drama Serials. Her production credits include the BAFTA-winning dramas The Way We Live Now, Care and Warriors.
Pippa is Chair of The Charleston Trust, an Ambassador for Women for Women International and in 2015 she was made a Dame in the Dissolution Honours.
Sam Mendes founded and ran the Donmar Warehouse for ten years between 1992 and 2002. He was also the first Artistic Director of the Minerva Theatre in Chichester, the founding director of The Bridge Project and the founding director of Neal Street Productions.
Sam's theatre work has been seen at the Donmar, the National Theatre, the RSC, the Royal Court, the Old Vic, the Young Vic, in the West End and on Broadway.
His films include American Beauty, Road to Perdition, Jarhead, Revolutionary Road, Away We Go, Skyfall, Spectre, 1917 and the upcoming Empire of Light.
His awards include the Academy Award for Best Director and Best Film, and three other Academy Award nominations, five BAFTAs, three Golden Globes, three Tony Awards, five Olivier Awards, including the Olivier Special Award, three Evening Standard Awards, three Empire Awards, two Directors Guild of America Awards and the Shakespeare Prize. He has also won the Directors Guild Award for lifetime achievement. He was awarded the CBE in 2000, and was knighted in the 2020 New Year Honours List for services to drama.