Meet the team

JASON HAIGH-ELLERY

Theatre (tour): Henry V, As You Like It, Days of Hope, Tomorrow Morning, Spring Awakening, By Jeeves, Snoopy the Musical, Love Shack, High Society, Fly me to the Moon, Debbie Does Dallas – the Musical, Teenage Kicks, The Steamie, Guess How much I love You?, The Wedding Singer, West End Men, Fame – the Musical (Eire), Yes Prime Minister, The Ladykillers, Never Forget and Footloose – the Musical.

Theatre (West End): Life Coach, Wolfboy, Footloose – the Musical, Shout!, A Christmas Carol, Third Floor, Shoshana Bean at the Ambassadors Theatre, Idina Menzel at the Royal Albert Hall, The Whatsonstage Theatregoer Awards (since 2007), Never Forget -The Take That Musical, West End Men, Yes Prime Minister (Theatregoer Award – Best New Comedy), The Ladykillers (4 Olivier nominations) and the sell-out West End debut of Nicholas Hoult in New Boy.

Theatre (South Africa): Executive Producer on the South African version of Footloose – the Musical.

Theatre (USA): Cinderella, Aladdin and A Snow White Christmas in Los Angeles with Lythgoe Family Productions each Christmas.

Radio: Over 650 audio and radio plays, including the highly successful Doctor Who series, Stargate, Highlander, Bernice Summerfield, Dalek Empire, Blake’s 7, and David Tennant in The Adventures of Luther Arkwright. Three episodes of the Doctor Who audio series were optioned by Russell T Davies and adapted for seasons one and two of the new Doctor Who television series.

Animation: Co-Founder and owner of Planet 55 Studios in Sydney, Australia. Planet 55 has just delivered the animated version of Doctor Who – the Reign of Terror, The Tenth Planet and The Moonbase for BBC Worldwide. A 26 part new animated drama series has been commissioned by ABC in Australia for 2014. Previous work includes Douglas Adams’ Shada and Ghosts of Albion

Jason is also the CEO of 3Fold Media, which produce britishtheatre.com, Amateurstage magazine and Fourthwall magazine.

GARY RUSSELL

After a ten-year career as a young actor, Gary moved into other aspects of the industry, working as a runner/assistant director/AFM, as well as spending a period of time in press and publicity and brand management for the BBC.

As a freelance writer he has written for a number of national magazines and periodicals such as Radio Times, Mojo and Time Out. For Marvel UK he served as an Editor and then Group Editor in both magazine and comic book departments, before moving on to work for gaming magazines and TV Soap magazines.

Gary helped establish Big Finish Productions Ltd, for which he was the Executive Producer, overseeing all audio drama and book publishing programming; script-editing, producing and directing over 200 hours of original audio drama.

He rejoined the BBC as a Script Editor at BBC Wales Drama, where he stayed for nearly 6 years, working on Doctor Who, Torchwood, The Sarah Jane Adventures and Wizards vs Aliens. For BBC Wales he also produced and directed a number of Doctor Who animation and game projects before relocating to New South Wales, Australia, to be the Executive Producer on Prisoner Zero.

JOSHUA CAMPBELL

Starting as an Assistant Producer on Doctor Who: Regin of Terror for Theta-sigma before moving into Planet 55 Studios as an editor on both Doctor Who: The Tenth Planet and Doctor Who: The Moonbase. Today, Joshua is the Studios Producer alongside the Executive Producer Gary Russell.

He is involved in conception of ideas, character design, storyboards, and animation, all the way through to compositing, editing and colour grading. Building from his experience as an editor and Assistant Producer.

Joshua currently is the Series Producer and Director of Prisoner Zero, an original series, commissioned by ABC Kids, and to be distributed around the world by ABC Commercial.