Television – Current
DOMINA II (Tiger Aspect/Sky Atlantic)
I WAS VERMEER (Montebello Productions/Baby Cow) – Adaptation of Frank Wynne book based on a true story
Television – Recent
DOMINA (Tiger Aspect/Sky Atlantic) – 8 part historical drama on the life and rise of Livia Drusilla, the powerful wife of the Roman Emperor
Written and created by Simon Burke and starring Kasia Smutniak
JEALOUSY (Pandemonium Films/Northern media) – Original short film starring Paul Nichols
THE EXCEPTION (Egoli Tossell/Ostar Enterprises) – Screenplay based on the Alan Judd novella, starring Christopher Plummer and Lily James.
FORTITUDE (Fifty Fathoms/Sky Atlantic)
Writer on Series 1 and 4 episodes of Series 2
ZEN (Leftbank Pictures/BBC) – 3 x 90’ films. Based on the novels of Michael Dibdin, starring Rufus Sewell
PERSUASION (Clerkenwell/ITV) – Screenplay based on Jane Austen’s classic novel
Starring Sally Hawkins and Rupert Penry-Jones
NY-LON (Pandemonium/Channel 4) – Original 7 part series telling the story of a contemporary love affair set between New York and London
Starring Stephen Moyer, Rashida Jones
WHITE TEETH (Company/Channel 4) – Adaptation of Zadie Smith’s award-winning novel
Om Puri, Philip Davis
SONS & LOVERS (Company/Channel 4) – Adaptation of the D H Lawrence classic
Starring Sarah Lancashire and Hugo Speer
LIVERPOOL 1 (Lime Street/ITV) – 3 series created and written by Simon Burke
Starring Samantha Janus and Tom Georgeson
TOM JONES (BBC 1)
Starring Samantha Morton and Max Beesley
INTO THE BLUE (Central/ITV)
Starring John Thaw, directed by Jack Gold
THE TURNAROUND (Carlton/ITV)
Starring Clive Owen, directed by Suri Krishnama
FAITH (Central/ITV) 1993
Starring Michael Gambon and John Hannah
THE GUILTY (Central/ITV)
Starring Michael Kitchen
CHANCER (Central/ITV)
Starring Clive Owen and Leslie Phillips
Theatre
THE LODGER
Mobil Prize winner 1992. Directed by Richard Wilson. Premiered at the Royal Exchange Theatre in 1994 before transferring to the Hampstead Theatre in London the same year.