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?
