The Team

Creative Director

David runs Monkey’s television productions with overall responsibility for the execution of all Monkey programs. Before co-founding Monkey, he was Head of Television at Ginger and worked on many of their most successful programs, including TFI Friday.

Creative Director

Will takes the lead in generating ideas for Monkey and oversees the creative side of the company. Before co-founding Monkey in 2000, Will worked at Ginger, where he co-wrote and/or produced Emmy, Bafta and Comedy Award-winning shows such as Don't Forget Your Toothbrush, TFI Friday and The Priory.

Managing Director

Helen joined Monkey from Lime Pictures, where she served as Head of Production for three years encompassing Lime Unscripted, Wise Owl films and Lion Television. During her time, Helen helped grow the business and slate of entertainment, reality, documentary and popular factual commissions for major broadcasters and platforms. Titles she oversaw include the long-running hit series The Only Way is Essex for ITVBe, E4’s Celebs Go Dating and MTV’s Geordie Shore.

Head of On-Screen Talent

As the Head of Talent at Monkey, Heidi is responsible for all productions and development for on-screen talent. From A-List stars to Elves with a few Made in Chelsea bods in-between, if they are in front of the camera for Monkey, Heidi is their first point of call.

Andy joined Monkey having produced shows for a number of leading indies and broadcasters. With a background in live and studio entertainment, his credits include classic entertainment formats such as Surprise Surprise and Tonight At The London Palladium as well as several successful first series across genres from Naked Attraction and Alan Carr’s New Year’s Specstacular to Animal Rescue Live and What Would Your Kid Do?

Head of Production

Emily has worked at Monkey as a Line Producer and a Production Executive. Now fulfilling the role of Head of Production Emily works across the development and production slate to ensure that we work efficiently to deliver high quality content. Prior to joining Monkey, Emily worked across genre on lots of shows including The Island with Bear Grylls, The Grand Tour and Masterchef.

Production Executive

Hannah joined Monkey as Production Executive in 2020 and oversees a number of shows across their production slate.
Previously, she was a Line Producer in predominantly comedy and entertainment, working on programmes including ‘Have I got News for You’, ‘The Ranganation’ and Alan Carr’s Chatty Man amongst others.

Head of Development

With over 15 years experience in comedy, entertainment and factual entertainment development and production, Abby's career includes stints at BBC Studios, Endemol Shine Group (now Banijay) and ITV Studios. Abby prides herself on her brilliant relationships with talent, agents, producers and commissioners, and loves developing ideas from page to screen, especially with emerging talent. Her previous credits include BBC and Netflix reality competition series Glow Up and the reboot of MTV’s Cribs.

Vice President of Legal and Business Affairs

SJ is the Vice President of Legal and Business Affairs and looks after all of Monkey’s developments and productions including overseeing production legal, compliance, business and commercial affairs. SJ joined Monkey in 2017 having previously worked at both FremantleMedia on entertainment shows such as The X Factor and The Apprentice and on scripted drama programmes including Life On Mars, Spooks and Clocking Off at the law firm Lee & Thompson.

Production Accountant

Lavinia started out as a Production Accountant at ITV, working in the Entertainment Department on shows such as Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway, Parkinson & Brainiac. She then went on to work at award winning indies Darlow Smithson Productions (I Shouldn’t Be Alive) & Raw TV (Gold Rush), as the Senior Production Accountant, before coming to Monkey.

Production Accountant

Having worked as a freelancer in the world of scripted drama for a number of years, Maaria joined Monkey as a Production Accountant in 2015. She has worked over a variety of shows including the Real Housewives of Cheshire.

Executive Producer - Real Housewives of Cheshire

Natasha is the Executive Producer of The Real Housewives of Cheshire, joining the show in 2018 at Monkey’s Manchester office. Prior to this Natasha produced large scale reality and structured reality shows with credits including Big Brother, Britain & Ireland’s Next Top Model, TOWIE and The Circle.