Roanna Benn - Co-Chief Executive Officer
Roanna established Drama Republic with her long-term colleagues Greg Brenman and Jude Liknaitzky in 2013.
Most recently Roanna has executive-produced the TV adaptation of the bestselling novel ONE DAY by David Nicholls for Netflix with the BAFTA Award-winning Nicole Taylor as the lead writer and showrunner. Roanna also executive-produced Britney a comedy pilot written by and starring Charly Clive and Ellen Robertson for the BBC. Previous credits include Life, a 6-part series for the BBC by Mike Bartlett which aired in September 2020, Pure, a 6-part series for Channel 4 by Kirstie Swain which broadcast in early 2019 and is currently streaming on Netflix and Wanderlust by Nick Payne for BBC One and Netflix in 2018.
Roanna previously developed and executive-produced two seasons of Mike Bartlett’s BBC One hit series Doctor Foster. It was the highest rating new show in all genres in 2015 and was awarded Best New Drama & Best Drama Performance for Suranne Jones at both the 2016 and 2018 National Television Awards; Best Drama at the Broadcast Awards; Best Drama at the South Bank Show Awards; Best Actress for Suranne Jones at the RTS, Broadcasting Press Guild and BAFTA Awards.
Roanna also executive-produced the first two series of BAFTA-nominated My Mad Fat Diary by Tom Bidwell for E4 and King Charles III, the acclaimed adaptation of Mike Bartlett’s stage play.
At Tiger Aspect, Roanna script-edited four series of Playing the Field by Kay Mellor for BBC One, Births, Marriages and Deaths by Tony Grounds/BBC Two, BAFTA-award winning White Girl by Abi Morgan/BBC Two, and the multi BAFTA-winning & Oscar-nominated feature film Billy Elliot by Lee Hall. As either producer, series producer or executive producer Roanna made: BAFTA-nominated Coming Down the Mountain by Mark Haddon/BBC One; Aftersun by David Nicholls/BBC One; Royal Wedding by Abi Morgan/ BBC Two; four series of Secret Diary of a Call Girl by Lucy Prebble & others/ITV2 & SHOWTIME and two series of Prisoners’ Wives by Julie Gearey/BBC One.