Ben is a very experienced editor who has worked for a number of years with a wide variety of screenwriters, from those just starting out in TV Drama to some of the most well established names in the industry.
After starting out assessing scripts for a range of theatres and independent film companies, Ben joined the BBC Drama Department as an in-house reader before going on to work as a Script Editor on ITV’s long-running police drama The Bill and then BBC2 drama Attachments produced by the award-winning World Productions. He has worked as a Drama Development Producer for Maverick Television and TwoFour as well as spending some time at Channel Four Drama Commissioning as a Development Executive becoming Head of Development. At Channel Four he worked across a range of high-profile shows like Shameless and Skins as well as running new writing schemes Coming Up and 4Screenwriting. He was Director of Development at Studio Canal-owned Tandem TV and worked on the drama Spotless (created by Ed McCardie) the first English language drama commissioned by French cable network Canal Plus. He worked as Series Script Executive on the first season of Sky Atlantic drama Britannia (created by Jez and Tom Butterworth) and as Script Producer on the third season of Fortitude (created by Simon Donald) also for Sky Atlantic. He was also a Development Executive at 11th Hour Films, producers of Alex Rider for Amazon Prime. He was subsequently the Script Producer on Boiling Point for BBC1. Ben is co-founder and MD of TV production company Colliderscope.
Ben has a broad understanding of the screenwriting process from inception to production, is dedicated to helping writers achieve their best work and is a supportive and insightful mentor and guide.
Lucy Kaufman