Global TV: The Hollow Crown

Ben Power is a writer for theatre, film, and television. For the last twelve years, he has worked at the National Theatre as Associate Director and Deputy Artistic Director. He commissioned and produced over seventy world premieres and ran the temporary theatre, The Shed. His writing credits for the stage include his adaptation of The Lehman Trilogy, which transferred from the National Theatre to the West End and Broadway and was nominated for Olivier, Evening Standard, and Drama League awards for Best Play. His other stage credits include adaptations of D. H. Lawrence’s Husbands & Sons, Euripides’ Medea, and Ibsen’s Emperor and Galilean, all for the National Theatre; A Tender Thing for the Royal Shakespeare Company; and Complicité’s A Disappearing Number, which won the Olivier, Evening Standard and Critics’ Circle Awards for Best Play. He was Associate Director of Headlong, and his adaptations for the company include Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author, Marlowe’s Faustus, and Milton’s Paradise Lost.

His writing credits for the screen include Munich: Edge of War for Netflix and the BBC Shakespeare series The Hollow Crown, which was nominated for BAFTAs including Best Single Drama and Best Mini-Series. He is currently writing screenplays for MGM and Ink Factory and creating a television series for Working Title. He was the Story Producer on Lucy Prebble and Billie Piper’s BAFTA-nominated I Hate Suzie, and he is published by Faber & Faber.

James McNamara is a screenwriter and a Lecturer in Film and Media Studies at UC Santa Barbara. McNamara is currently creating Detective Cooper, an international television drama series for Goalpost Pictures, Quizzical Pictures, and M-Net. He is also creating a television drama series for Sony Pictures / Playmaker. Other recent television work includes writers’ rooms for the Academy Award-winning See Saw Films, Matchbox Pictures / NBC Universal, Foxtel, ABC, and Endemol Shine. Additionally, McNamara is directing and writing an audio series for Audible, Estuary Films, and Princess Pictures. McNamara has consulted on features for Porchlight Films, Icon Film Distribution, and Fox Searchlight Pictures, and has twice been named an “international rising star” by BAFTA LA. He graduated from Australia’s national film school, AFTRS, and holds a PhD in English from Oxford.