Simon is the writer and producer of Michael Morpurgo’s Private Peaceful. He also directed Fluidity Film’s comedy drama documentary What You Will. He has just delivered the screenplay of Christopher Isherwood's Prater Violet, and screenplay commissions for 2014 include Jane Austen's Sanditon and Helen Dunmore's Zennor in Darkness.
He has wide experience as a producer, writer and director working in film, theatre and TV. He was literary manager at the Royal Shakespeare Company, Drama Development Executive at Tiger Aspect Productions and Artistic Director of Bristol Old Vic.
He has worked with some of the country's brightest writers and directors including Stephen Poliakoff, Paul Greengrass, Stephen Daldry, Melly Still, David Farr and Lee Hall.
His theatre adaptations include Penelope Lively's Moon Tiger touring in 2014, Pride
& Prejudice which was revived simultaneously at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre and
The Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis as the 200th anniversary production, Salman Rushdie's
Midnight's Children and Ted Hughes's Tales from Ovid (both RSC), and an extensive
range of award-
His close collaborations with Michael Morpurgo over the past decade include Twist of Gold, The Mozart Question, Toro! Toro! and Private Peaceful which is yet again being revived on tour across the UK throughout 2014.
Guy is the producer of the major British feature Private Peaceful; based on the seminal
and award-
Guy was responsible for raising the finance and creating an EIS to fund the project. The film was released in the UK in autumn 2012 starring Richard Griffiths, Frances de la Tour, Maxine Peake, Jack O’Connell & George Mackay.
He is the lead producer on Christopher Isherwood’s Prater Violet, raising development
finance and is also producing Fluidity’s Jane Austen adaptation, a project based
on Bram Stoker’s Dracula and co-
He has written and produced independent features and documentaries as well as TV.
He has recently completed co-
Guy lives in Somerset, England with his wife and two daughters.
