Joan Lane

We welcome Joan on board again in 2024. Joan has worked in arts management and production for 30 years. A speech and language therapist with a background as a music scholar and vocal consultant, Joan has worked variously in music, film and television, which led to her primary work editing scripts and screenplays. She developed the film The King’s Speech, having been sent the stage play by writer David Seidler, who adapted the stage play to the iconic film it has become.

Joan's company Wild Thyme Productions has toured six innovative productions of Shakespeare’s plays in the UK and Germany, and mounted world premiere showcases and readings of new plays and musicals in London. Three films currently in pre-production are expected to go into production in 2024. Joan was also asked to rewrite the screenplay of the film 1242 Gateway to the West, which is due out in early 2024.

 

A consultant for the BBC, Joan was involved with the Royal Opera House performance of The Little Prince and numerous other well known productions and projects. Joan has worked on several plays at the National Theatre, and toured plays with ATG, PW Productions and the Pleasance Theatre. She recommends scripts to Russian translator colleagues: two plays were produced in Russia until recently, one at the renowned Art Theatre in Moscow.

 

Joan is a regular lecturer/mentor on the renowned Rocaberti Castle Writers’ Retreats alongside some of the top people in screenwriting.