Francesca Moody Productions commissions, develops and presents brave, entertaining and compelling new theatre. They work with the UK’s leading playwrights and discover and nurture new talent to produce bold, award-winning shows with universal appeal and commercial potential.
Since launching in 2018 the company has been awarded an Olivier and four Scotsman Fringe Firsts, been nominated for a Tony Award, and produced work in London, New York, on tour across the UK and at the Edinburgh Festival.
FMP are also the creators of Shedinburgh Fringe Festival, an online live-streamed festival of theatre, comedy and music created in lieu of the Edinburgh Fringe in 2020. Since its launch the festival has raised over £40,000 towards a fund to support the next generation of artists to make it to the Fringe.
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Francesca Moody MBE is an Olivier award-winning Theatre Producer. She has produced theatre on and off London’s West-End, at the Edinburgh Festival, on tour in the UK and internationally. She is best known as the original producer of the multi-award winning FLEABAG by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, which she has produced globally on behalf of DryWrite, most recently in London’s West-End when it was also recorded and broadcast by NT Live, playing in cinemas throughout the world.
In 2020, with Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Francesca led and coordinated the Fleabag for Charity campaign, streaming FLEABAG NT Live on Amazon and Soho Theatre on Demand, raising over £1,000,000 for charities supporting those affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. Following this, with Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Olivia Colman, Francesca established the Theatre Community Fund, raising a further £1,000,000 to support theatrical artists and professionals whose livelihoods and creative futures have been threatened in the wake of Covid-19.
Francesca is also the former Producer of leading British new writing theatre company Paines Plough, where she produced and developed plays by leading UK playwrights including Dennis Kelly, Duncan Macmillan, James Graham and Kae Tempest. She was also the Executive Producer at curious directive.
Francesca has received an Olivier Award, eight Fringe First Awards and three Off West End Awards for her productions. She is a trustee of The Spring Arts and Heritage Arts Centre, the Royal Theatrical Fund and Theatre Royal Stratford East and an Honorary Associate of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. In 2022 she was awarded an MBE for services to Charitable Fundraising for the Arts in the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Honours.
Formerly Producer at the Young Vic, Christabel is a theatre producer working across both subsidised and commercial sectors with a focus on new writing and talent development.
Prior to the YV she spent three years at Paines Plough where she oversaw the organisation’s resident writer programme, commissioned over 100 writers for the small and mid scale and cultivated a multi-year touring partnership with over 30 nationwide arts venues in areas of least cultural engagement.
She has produced new work at a multitude of venues across the UK including Soho Theatre, Bush
Theatre, The Lowry, Bristol Old Vic, Theatre Royal Plymouth, Theatr Clwyd and extensively at Edinburgh Festival.
Christabel has worked as part of the producing teams at Playful Productions, Fiery Angel and Seabright Productions across numerous large-scale plays and musicals in the West End, and is a previous recipient of the Stage One Trainee Producer scheme.
Beyond the stage she has been a script reader for Dancing Ledge, Drama Republic and Hummingbird Films.
Alongside her work with FMP, Charlotte is also the Financial Controller at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre. Prior to that she worked at Matthew Bourne’s dance-theatre company New Adventures as Finance & Operations Manager, and at new-writing theatre company Paines Plough firstly as Finance & Administration Assistant, and then Administrator. She has recently started studying towards a CGMA (Chartered Global Management Accountant) qualification after becoming an AAT member in 2022.
Prior to working at FMP, Darcy was Associate Producer at DEM Productions and has worked in-house at Jermyn Street Theatre and Theatre503.
Alongside these roles, she has produced independently. Productions as Producer include: Til Death Do Us Part by Safaa Benson-Effiom (Theatre503, ‘Best Production’ London Pub Theatre Awards); Notes On Love And Being Alone with Lesley Manville, Alison Steadman and Sophie Thompson (Crazy Coqs). Productions as Associate Producer: A Sherlock Carol (Marylebone Theatre), Vardy Vs Rooney: the Wagatha Christie Trial (West End & UK Tour).
Angel started her career as a Production Intern at Sonia Friedman Productions (SFP), where she gained first-hand experience of working in a fast-paced, large scale production company. She worked on various shows including Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and Stranger Things: The First Shadow.
After SFP, Angel joined PW Productions as a Freelance Production Assistant coordinating the West End transfer of Studio Ghibli’s Spirited Away from Japan. Where she organised its double press performances and assisted with the temporary relocation of over 100 Japanese cast, creatives, and personnel.
Prior to her work in theatre, Angel studied Film Industries and Creative Writing at The University of Portsmouth where she produced several short films. She also has a background working as a Stage Door Keeper for The Bridge Theatre.
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