Pippa Harris

Pippa Harris established Neal Street Productions in 2003, alongside Sam Mendes and Caro Newling, and runs the company's Film and TV division together with Nicolas Brown. Since the formation of Neal Street Productions, Pippa has produced Starter for Ten, Stuart A Life Backwards, and co-produced Jarhead. She also executive produced Things We Lost in the Fire, Away We Go and the Oscar-nominated Revolutionary Road, as well as feature documentary We Are Many. Pippa is Executive Producer on the BBC's award winning Call the Midwife - currently the most watched TV drama in the UK, as well as series 2 of Britannia, Jez Butterworth's major new drama for Sky Atlantic. She also executive produced BBC Two's BAFTA winning The Hollow Crown - a series of Shakespeare films for the BBC / PBS, as well as a second series; The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses, and the multi award winning Penny Dreadful, written by John Logan for Showtime / Sky Atlantic. Previously, Pippa was the Head of Drama Commissioning for the BBC where her commissions included The Lost Prince, State of Play and Daniel Deronda. Pippa joined the BBC in 1997 as a Development Executive for BBC films before becoming the Executive Producer of BBC Drama Serials. Her production credits include the BAFTA-winning dramas The Way We Live Now, Care and Warriors. She is also a Governor of The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, a Trustee of The Charleston Trust, a Patron of Best Beginnings, and an Ambassador for Women for Women International. In 2015 Pippa was made a Dame in the Dissolution Honours.