Laurence Bowen

Biography

Laurence J. Bowenis a British television and film producer. After graduating from Oxford University in the 1980s, Bowen began his television career working for Bill Bryden at BBC Scotland as a researcher and trainee script editor before moving on to run the development arm of non-profit organisation First Film Foundation which he helped set up to champion new writers and film makers backed by a board that included Jeremy Thomas, David Putnam and Roland Joffé. In 1993 he left to work for Simon Curtis in the BBC where he produced Paradise (with Penny Downie and Dave Hill) for BBC2.