Simon Gibney
Director
Producer
Development Exec.
Simon is an award-winning director / producer known for his work across the US, UK & Ireland. With over twenty five years experience, in drama, comedy and multi-camera projects, Simon works on an ongoing basis for many international productions.
Most recently, Simon is producing comedy animation projects in the US 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 Farzar, which airs on Netflix this summer.
Also he was Creative Producer on 6 x short films, for Seriously Entertainment, based on the Best Fiends games and Characters.
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Simon directed, The South Westerlies, for AcornTV/RTE/ZDF/N2. His drama reel includes BBC’s Father Brown (Mark Williams & Sorcha Cusack) to RTE’s Nowhere Fast (Alison Spittle/ Cathy Belton) to UKTV’s Bull (Matt Lucas/ Maureen Lipman / Robert Lindsay).
Along with 100's of hours of UK continuing drama.
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 comedy & experimental music videos, commercials and shorts.
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Simon's unscripted work encompasses, world lead formats, producing original concepts and fact-ent shows. Projects ranging from quiz (Mastermind), game shows (Family Fortune), chat show (The Late Late Show) to large scale live music events (Jnr. Eurovision song contest), live festivals, (St Patricks day) comedy stand-up (The Lounge) and prank show (Off Their Rockers) to Fact-Ent documentaries (U2's New York Tumble).
Simon has worked on a huge array of programming throughout his career, and was co-founder of ShinAwiL Productions. To date he has achieved many awards including, several IFTA wins, BAFTA nominations and an EMMY win to name a few.
For further information on any projects please contact The Gersh Agency LA
Most recently, Simon is producing comedy animation projects in the US 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 Farzar, which airs on Netflix this summer.
Also he was Creative Producer on 6 x short films, for Seriously Entertainment, based on the Best Fiends games and Characters.
SCRIPTED BIO;
Simon directed, The South Westerlies, for AcornTV/RTE/ZDF/N2. His drama reel includes BBC’s Father Brown (Mark Williams & Sorcha Cusack) to RTE’s Nowhere Fast (Alison Spittle/ Cathy Belton) to UKTV’s Bull (Matt Lucas/ Maureen Lipman / Robert Lindsay).
Along with 100's of hours of UK continuing drama.
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 comedy & experimental music videos, commercials and shorts.
UNSCRIPTED BIO;
Simon's unscripted work encompasses, world lead formats, producing original concepts and fact-ent shows. Projects ranging from quiz (Mastermind), game shows (Family Fortune), chat show (The Late Late Show) to large scale live music events (Jnr. Eurovision song contest), live festivals, (St Patricks day) comedy stand-up (The Lounge) and prank show (Off Their Rockers) to Fact-Ent documentaries (U2's New York Tumble).
Simon has worked on a huge array of programming throughout his career, and was co-founder of ShinAwiL Productions. To date he has achieved many awards including, several IFTA wins, BAFTA nominations and an EMMY win to name a few.
For further information on any projects please contact The Gersh Agency LA
