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Twist and Shout was founded in 1993, a time when mobile communications involved some string and a couple of baked bean tins. Even then we knew making people laugh was the key to getting them engaged. Nothing has changed except some extremely naughty editing technology.

Rich is our Director of Content. “Movies have the power to change the world. They inspire, educate and entertain and I love being a part of that. Plus the challenge of making them is an enormous amount of fun.”

Richard Leverton

Director of Content
Jim’s book, a love letter to the creative community, is here. “I tell people I have the best job in the world. I work with funny, talented people, and cool tech toys. I get to laugh every day for a living. How cool is that?”

Jim Shields

Series Director
When scripting, Rob transcribes the many voices in his head, and hopes they have a good grasp on the message at hand.

Rob McCollum

Series Writer
James is our Associate Director and James has the amazing job of finding and working with the incredible talent that brings our stories to life. It’s a role where he wears many hats, whether it’s Directing, Producing, Development, Casting or Location scouting.

James Hissett

Associate Director
Micaiah is a seasoned Producer who’s been “knocking around” on film sets since her early teens. It’s her job to help the pictures in the Director’s head manifest in the real world. She’s a self confessed style freak who’s happiest in her inept yet stylish organic garden.

Micaiah Dring

Producer
Karen is the beating heart of the Twist and Shout social scene, organising all of our team-building activities. She’s actually a trained glass-blower and has a side hustle in fashion design.

Karen Kane

Executive Assistant
Henry is our Assistant Editor and would describe his role as “frequently spinning plates”… That’s if the plates were made out of Final Cut and Photoshop files.

Henry Lavender

Assistant Editor
Posters. Logos. Art Department Props. Dan loves making pretty things, and wishes he could have a drawing tablet stylus installed as a permanent extra digit on his hand.

Dan Robinson

Graphic Designer & Production Support
Like all great writers, Matt loves two things: telling stories, and a mean cup of coffee.

Matt Beames

In-House Writer/Script Editor
Natasha is our fantastic production administrator who ensures our collaborators get contracted and our productions come in under budget. Thankfully, she is always happy to dive into a spreadsheet at a moments notice.

Natasha Bird

Production Administrator
Kristen Parker

Quality Assurance Specialist
Andy is our Courseware Technologist. Sounds mysterious, but he’s responsible for captioning and getting our stuff in front of customers. As an ex-teacher and e-learning developer, he’ll always weigh in to stop our most unruly behaviour.

Andy Crotty

Courseware Technologist

In 2018, we were commissioned by a Florida based tech company called KnowBe4 to make a Netflix-worthy, eminently bingeable drama about social engineering and information security. While they had no idea where Leicestershire was, let alone say it, we were confident we could respond in style. We had some ‘previous’ with our award-winning infosec and compliance sitcoms ‘Restricted Intelligence’ and ‘Tuesdays with Bernie’, so our creative superbrains got to work and came up with ‘The Inside Man’. As the saying goes, KnowBe4’s CEO Stu Sjouwerman loved the product so much, he bought the company. The rest, as they say, is history. The Inside Man is now on a multi-season arc that rivals only Star Wars in its commitment to emotional family sub-plots and interwoven storylines.

Before then, we worked with these lovely companies…

Whether you call them employees or end-users we like to think of them as people. Passionate people, loyal people, people who always remember to put the trash out, people who have families and friends and sports teams they love or galleries they visit. People who put pineapple on pizza, and people who don’t. People who remember your birthday. It’s all of us in our lovely, forgetful, loyal diversity. In other words, people who like a laugh along with their compliance / security / social-engineering / information security training.

We also care a great deal about your Privacy. So if you’re into that kind of thing, here’s where you can find our Privacy Policy and Website Use Policy.