ANAND TUCKER
CEO
Anand Tucker is an award winning director, producer and writer, whose films include:
Hilary and Jackie, which won him the BIFA Best Director Award and was called 'one of the best British films of the decade' by The Sunday Times.
Girl With a Pearl Earring (Producer), which starred Scarlett Johansson and Colin Firth and was nominated for a BIFA for Best Achievement in Production, a BAFTA for Best British Film and a host of Academy Awards.
His film And When Did You Last See Your Father? was released in 2007 and starred Jim Broadbent and Colin Firth. It was nominated for seven BIFAs including Best British Film and Best Director.
In 2009 Anand returned to television directing the critically acclaimed adaptation of David Peace's novel, Red Riding: Nineteen Eighty Three for Channel 4. As well as directing the 2013 ABC pilot Gothica.
In 2014, Anand directed Indian Summers, produced by New Pictures for Channel 4 and PBS. The opening episode drew 2.9 million viewers, making it the most successful Channel 4 drama launch in 20 years.
He is currently directing the movie The Critic, starring Sir Ian McKellen and Gemma Arterton, based on the novel, Curtain Call by Anthony Quinn and adapted for the screen by Patrick Marber.
SHARON MAGUIRE
CEO
The award winning director of Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001) and Bridget Jones’s Baby (2016), Sharon Maguire began her career working for Channel 4 television’s The Media Show and BBC’s The Late Show.
In September 2016, Bridget Jones’s Baby was released to huge acclaim. The film smashed box-office records, becoming the biggest UK rom-com of all time.
Sharon wrote and directed the film Incendiary for Channel 4, which starred Ewan McGregor and Michelle Williams. In the USA in 2012, she directed Call Me Crazy, for TV with producers Marta Kauffman (Friends) and Jennifer Aniston.
Sharon also directs commercials (Audi, BT, Ford, Volkswagen, National Lottery). Her directorial debut was in 2001 with the box office smash, Bridget Jones’s Diary. The movie grossed $300 million worldwide.
Sharon is slated to direct the movie of Longbourn (based on the bestselling novel by Jo Baker) and is adapting and directing Guardian Journalist, Emma Brockes’ memoir, An Excellent Choice for Sony Pictures UK.
COLLEEN WOODCOCK
Creative Director
Colleen joined s7ories from Pathé Productions, where she was Head of Creative Affairs, overseeing development and production on all Pathé UK films, since 2006.
During her time there she worked closely with writers including Abi Morgan, Simon Beaufoy, Julian Fellowes, Moira Buffini, Ol Parker, Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Guy Hibbert and Stephen Beresford, and directors such as Danny Boyle, Stephen Frears, Jane Campion, Phyllida Lloyd and Justin Chadwick.
Films she oversaw during her tenure include The Duchess, Bright Star, 127 Hours and Oscar winners Slumdog Millionaire, The Iron Lady, Philomena and Selma among many others.
Prior to Pathé, Colleen spent six years as Head of Development for Michael Kuhn’s Qwerty Films, developing a slate of projects including Severance and The Duchess, and oversaw production on Qwerty financed films such as David O Russell’s I Heart Huckabees and Richard Eyre’s Stage Beauty.
STEPHEN LAMBERT
Chairman
Stephen Lambert is one of the best known creative television executives in Britain and America, responsible for global non-scripted hits such as Undercover Boss, Wife Swap, Gogglebox, Secret Millionaire, Four In A Bed, Perfect Match and Faking It. He is the founder and CEO of Studio Lambert, the production company he launched in 2008 with the support of All3Media.
Within three years of launching Studio Lambert, the company was ranked as #11 in Broadcast magazine’s annual ranking of production companies by size of turnover. His programs have won many awards, including several Primetime and International Emmys and more than half a dozen BAFTA awards. He recently agreed a new multi-year arrangement with DLG that has seen the launch of Studio Lambert Associates.
GILL LANG
Director of Legal and Business Affairs, Scripted
Gill started her legal career as a corporate finance lawyer at the city law firm Herbert Smith before leaving private practice to become the first in-house lawyer at the literary agency The Agency.
Gill then moved into television production and joined Granada Productions and was head of business affairs for drama and comedy for some seven years. From there she moved into the broadcaster ITV Network where again she was head of business affairs for drama and comedy. Gill is also Director of Legal and Business Affairs, Scripted for Studio Lambert Associates Limited.
IAN HOGAN
Head of Production
In a successful freelance career, Ian has line produced or co-produced a wide and varied range of HETV television series including the award winning Netflix series Black Mirror, Britannia, Downton Abbey, Sanditon and Emily Mortimer's adaptation of The Pursuit of Love. He was also the producer on six episodes of the returning Masterpiece period drama series Sanditon and he produced the Black Museum episode of Black Mirror.
Ian became Head of Production for Seven Stories in October 2022, after working as the production executive on the Disney+ live action adventure series Nautilus.
RICHARD PLOWS
Chief Financial Officer
Originally starting as a tax advisor in the ‘Big 4’, Richard moved into commerce joining the FTSE 100 distributor Bunzl, before moving to the tax strategy team at Liberty Global and subsequently joining All3Media as Head of Tax in 2017.
Richard has worked with scripted and non-scripted companies and is active in industry representations including Audio Visual Incentives and Film and TV Industry Guidance, and has experience in arranging both production and receivables finance. Richard also acts as VP of Finance at All3Media where he leads the group tax and corporate finance functions.
Richard joined Seven Stories in April 2023 and is responsible for the financial affairs of the company.
NAOMI WALLWORK
Senior Business Affairs Manager
Naomi started her career in New Zealand as a commercial lawyer, before moving to the UK to work for the BBC World Service. After three years, she returned to New Zealand to study at the New Zealand Film and Television School. In 2015 she moved back to the UK and worked in business affairs for numerous production companies while also producing a feature documentary. In 2019 she started working for Seven Stories as well as Studio Lambert Associates Limited.