Profile
Rich is a television drama director based in London. Equally at home masterminding large-scale VFX-heavy stunt sequences and managing intimate moments of performance, he has injected his unique energy into many genres from coming-of-age comedy to crime drama, via period epics and sci-fi thrillers. His creative yet pragmatic approach has delivered entertaining, cinematic episodes within a broad range of budgets. Every series he has launched has been recommissioned, while his premieres and finales regularly receive five star reviews in the press. He’s well-versed in all stages from development to marketing and is brimming with original ideas at every point in the process.
BACKSTORY: The product of two dinghy-sailing secondary school teachers from Suffolk, Rich studied film and TV at Bournemouth University, graduating with a first that no-one ever asks about. It got him a job making tea on movie sets which was fun except he doesn’t drink tea. But he loved having ideas, so became an advertising Creative, writing, directing and editing multi-award-winning promo campaigns for the BBC. He moved on to make the dramas he’d previously promoted, becoming the youngest ever director of new Doctor Who. He now directs high-end television episodes for whoever asks nicely. So his parents are very proud, but they wish he’d make things containing fewer naughty words.