PIPKINS PRODUCTIONS - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Lecturer in Education at the University
Clare Dowdall is a lecturer in Education at the University of Exeter's Graduate School of Education. Clare's research focuses on children's evolving literacies in 21st century contexts, with a particular focus on children's reading and writing in digital spaces. She is an active member of the Executive Council of the United Kingdom Literacy Association.
Since 2004, Clare has also worked as a literacy consultant, advising on and producing teacher materials for two leading educational publishers.
Clare is a qualified teacher, and has taught and led literacy in a large primary school.
EMMA KNOWLES - ANDERTOONZ Illustrator Emma has created commercial cartoon illustrations, logos and mascots for some of the UK's top brands including BBC Worldwide, BBC Sport, International Animal Rescue and Etihad Airways to name a few. She also writes and delivers university lectures for Illustration and Animation degree courses. Emma is our Illustrator for Monty and Co.
Emma has worked on Mopatop's Shop and The Hoobs for The Jim Henson Company, Angelina Ballerina for HIT Entertainment, among others. She began her career working for The BBC on Only Fools and Horses, Birds of A Feather, Blue Peter, and Noel's House Party.
BAFTA winner Gail has been writing top level children's television since her teens. Gail has written for Disney and created and written many hours of children's television, including the globally successful TV series The Famous Five, Pipkins, Come Back Lucy, and Chucklevision. Gail was also creator/ writer on Your Mother Wouldn't Like It (with Hugh Grant), C4's comedy series Get Up Stand Up and the BBC's Custer's Last Stand Up.
Iain Worked his way up through the BBC from Floor assistant to director. He has worked for most of the major TV production companies including, Disney and The Jim Henson Company directing Mopatop's Shop, and The Hoobs. He has also directed Mike and Angelo, Bunnytown, Waybuloo, Grandpa in My Pocket, and Desmonds.
JOHN FENTON-STEVENS Composer and Voice of Scraps He started his own music production company, Pass The Peas Music, in 2005 and has a successful career writing and producing music for many television shows and worldwide advertising campaigns. He has composed music for Disney, Land Rover, MTV, Lego, Nickelodeon, L'Oreal, Cartoon Network and many more. Aside from music for TV, his own music has been released worldwide and received airplay in the UK on BBC Radio 1, BBC 6 Music and BBC Introducing.
JONATHAN PAUL GREEN Set Designer Jonathan began his career working for Spitting Image. He designed the sets for Have I Got News for You, Loose Women, Fleabag and The Trouble with Maggie Cole. He has worked with various artists including Madonna, Dara O'Brain, Joan Rivers and John Bishop. He has won the British Film Designers Guild Award twice.
Martin is an award-winning Director of photography.
His many TV shows include Outnumbered, Mrs. Brown's Boys, The Tracey Ullman Show, Holby City, The Vicar of Dibley, After Life, and many others.
He also shot the films What We Did on Our Holiday, and Mrs. Brown's Boys D'Movie.
Paul has edited and created all the visual effects for Monty & Co. Previous clients have included Channel 4, Sky TV, The Discovery Channel, ITV and E4. Amongst many others he worked on IN MY LIFE - JOHN CULSHAW, THE CHARLOTTE CHURCH SHOW, and CRIME MUSEUM UK with Martin Kemp.
Job Titles:
- Head of Design and Puppet Creator and Producer
Paul brings his incredible creative skills to Monty & Co. The man who gives life to the puppets, from the first outline sketches to building them, is an essential member of our team. His work includes Cameron Macintosh's West End show Avenue Q, the PG Tips Monkey, Disney, The Muppets, Mopatop's Shop, The Hoobs, Peppa Pig Live, Mr. Men and Little Misses Live; also the film The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy, for which Paul was part of the team that built ‘Marvin the Paranoid Android'.
Paul's unique work has won BAFTA awards and undoubtedly will win more.
Job Titles:
- Producer
- Partner at Gunnercooke LLP
Media lawyer Robert is a Partner at Gunnercooke LLP. He has experience in the industry beginning with a career as a writer for children's television before qualifying as a solicitor. As a lawyer Robert has advised creatives from Oscar winners to online start-ups. As a writer, Robert wrote 30 episodes of Chucklevision. He has also written three series of the BBC-TV children's series, Out of Tune, starring James Corden and Coronation Street's Jane Danson.
Susan was the co creator and writer of Pipkins and has written for Let's Pretend, Brookside, and Coronation Street. She has also written single TV plays and contributed to many television drama series including Angels and Within These Walls. More recently, Susan has written many musical plays for children to watch or perform. Her work has been performed with orchestras in Manchester and by children in schools across the UK.
Job Titles:
- Audio Post Production / the FARM GROUP