Biography
Irma has produced MR LOVERMAN, the new Fable Pictures / BBC One series based on the novel by Bernardine Evaristo. Prior to this she was Series Producer on GRIME KIDS for Mammoth Screen/BBC3, she co-produced THEN YOU RUN for Kudos/Sky and produced series three of THE BAY for Tall Story Pictures/ITV. Irma worked as Development Producer for Ged Doherty and Colin Firth's company, Raindog Films and was Script Executive on TIN STAR for Kudos/Sky, prior to which she spent two years as Producer on HOLBY CITY, having been a script editor on both it and EASTENDERS. Irma has produced over 30 hours of television, including the critically–acclaimed “Man Down” episode of HOLBY CITY, which highlighted the plight of a much-loved regular character in denial about his chronic depression and in crisis. She was a dramaturg on INSIDE OUT a play, by Tanika Gupta, produced by Clean Break and for LISTEN TO YOUR PARENTS by Benjamin Zephaniah, originally commissioned and transmitted on Radio 4. The play was reworked for a touring theatre production, before running at The Lyric, Hammersmith. As an actor, Irma has worked extensively, in theatre, television, radio and film; most often in new plays including WELCOME TO THEBES, written by Moira Buffini and directed by Richard Eyre, at the Olivier, for the National Theatre; DAUGHTERS at the Royal Court Theatre, directed by Ramin Gray; award-winning APACHE TEARS for Clean Break Theatre Company, at the Battersea Arts Centre and the THE WIDE SARGASSO SEA, adapted by Rukhsana Ahmad, for Radio 4. Television and film includes SILENT WITNESS, DESMOND’S, CORONATION STREET and the multi award-winning short film, PERFECT IMAGE?
