Laurence Bowen

Education

University of Oxford.

Career

After graduating from Oxford University in the 1980s, Bowen began his television career working for Bill Bryden at British Broadcasting Corporation Scotland as a researcher and trainee script editor before moving on to run the development arm of non-profit organisation First Film Foundation. In 1993 he left to work for Simon Curtis in British Broadcasting Corporation Drama where he produced Paradise (with Penny Downie and Dave Hill) for BBC2. Bowen and Philip Clarke then founded production company Feelgood Fiction in 1997.

Bowen"s Producer and Executive Producer credits at Feelgood also include The Hello Girls (Series 2), Badger, Miranda, one-off television films Double Bill, The English Harem, George and Bernard Shaw and comedy series Gates for Sky Living.

Gates was acquired by Warner Brothers and National Broadcasting Company and a United States pilot commissioned written by Cathy Yuspa and Josh Goldstein and directed by Mark Buckland. A United States version of was developed by Home Box Office and a pilot commissioned written by Michelle Ashford and directed by Barry Sonnenfeld.

My Life as a Popat was acquired by Nickelodeon. All three series were co-created and Executive Produced by Bowen.

Bowen recently produced the British Academy of Film and Television Arts nominated British Broadcasting Corporation drama "Foundation" and Executive Produced the British Academy of Film and Television Arts winning British Broadcasting Corporation "Lizard Girl".

He has just produced feature film "The Eichmann Show" starring Martin Freeman and Anthony LaPaglia with Paul Andrew Williams directing which will be distributed by The Weinstein Company in the United States. His new "Unmade Movies" season of productions of lost screenplays by the greatest writers of the Twentieth Century begins this month on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4. James McAvoy, Mark Strong, Hugh Laurie, David Suchet and Rebecca Front star in pieces by Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Harold Pinter, Ernest Lehman and Arthur Miller. Directed by Richard Eyre, Jamie Lloyd, Mark Gatiss, Joanna Hogg and Adrian Noble.

In the United States, Home Box Office and now American Broadcasting Company are developing a United States version of and National Broadcasting Company a United States version of Gates.

Bowen co-created and is Executive Producing both shows.

Achievements

• Soon after he was appointed Head of Drama at Diverse Productions where he went on to produce The Hello Girls, Stone, Scissors, Paper (with Juliet Stevenson and Ken Stott, winner of the inaugural Dennis Potter Award) and Dual Balls (nominated for Bafta Film Award). Bowen won a British Academy of Film and Television Arts for My Life as a Popat and a British Academy of Film and Television Arts nomination for together with RTS, Broadcast and Chicago Film Festival awards, Prix Jeunesse, Rose Doctorate"or, Emmy and BANFF nominations and most recently the Monte Carlo Golden Nymph for Best International Producer of the Year.