SIMON F. GIBNEY
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  • HOME
  • BIO / RESUME
  • SCRIPTED PROJECTS
    • Drama
    • Comedy Drama
    • Sketches Shows
    • Puppets Projects
    • Animation Production
  • UNSCRIPTED PROJECTS
    • Factual Ent.
    • Comedy
    • Studio Programming
    • Game Shows
    • Music Events
    • Chat shows
  • FURTHER INFO
    • Awards
    • Contact Agent
    • Some Samples

Simon Gibney

Director / Producer / Showrunner

An award-winning director / producer known for his work across the US, UK & Ireland.   With over twenty five years experience, in drama, comedy and entertainment projects, Simon works on an ongoing basis for many national and international productions.

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ANIMATION BIO;
Simon is producing comedy animation projects in the US, most recently, with Bento Box / Fox Entertainment, he has worked on Season 3 of Paradise PD,  Season 1 of S.M.A.S.H. and Season 1 of adult comedy Farzar, which airs on Netflix this summer.
Also he is Creative Producer on 6 x short films, for Seriously Entertainment, based on the Best Fiends games and Characters. 
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SCRIPTED BIO;
Simon has directed dramas such as, The South Westerlies, (Orla Brady, Eileen Walsh, Kevin J. Ryan & Patrick Bergin) -  AcornTV/RTE/ZDF/N2.  His international drama reel includes BBC’s Father Brown (Mark Williams & Sorcha Cusack)  and comedy drama Nowhere Fast (Alison Spittle/ Cathy Belton) along with  UKTV’s BULL  (Matt Lucas/ Maureen Lipman / Robert Lindsay). 
Simon has also directed 100's of hours of UK continuing drama and BBC3 short comedy film such as Dead Air.
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Some of Simon’s comedy work continues with BBC2’s sketch show Watson & Oliver (Hugo Speer / Adrian Scarborough / Felicity Montagu ), STARZ US Bronx Bunny Show (Mark Hamill / Howie Mandel / Richard Schiff) and BBC’s multi award winning factual-comedy show Horrible Histories (Ronan Atkinson/ Ben Miller/ Simon Farnaby / Kevin Eldon).  HIs children’s tv works has included Moon and Me (NBC / BBC), Furchester Hotel  (Sesame St / Cbeebies), Wildwoods (Hulu / ITV) and ROY (RTE/CBBC).
Simon has also directed chart topping music videos, commercials, shorts and Close Encounters with magic!
  

UNSCRIPTED BIO:
Quiz shows, game shows, chat shows, dating shows, talent shows, live events, music festivals, comedy stand-up, prank shows, fact-Ent docs.

Simon has several hundreds hours of unscripted and to mutli-camera work, which encompasses, world lead formats, producing original concepts and fact-ent shows. Projects ranging from quiz, Mastermind - TV3 to Know the score - RTE, international game shows like Family Feud and Take me Out, long running chat show The Late Late Show - RTE  to large scale live music events such as the Jnr. Eurovision song contest - EBU, live international festivals and events from St Patricks day, Dublin to Heineken Green Energy  and comedy stand-up shows like The Lounge- N2 to Jason Byrne live and old school prank show Off Their Rockers- ITV  to Fact-Ent documentaries, such as U2's New York Tumble.

Simon has made a huge array of programming throughout his career, and was co-founder of Irish company ShinAwiL Productions.  To date he has achieved many Awards including, several IFTA wins,  BAFTA nominations and an EMMY win to name a few.
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For further information on any projects please click on the mail icon on the top right of this page or reach out to Stewart Cavanagh @ The Cartel, LA.
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