Simon Reade – producer & director

What You Will is Simon’s first feature film as director. Simon is also the writer and producer of Michael Morpurgo’s Private Peaceful.

He has wide experience as a producer, writer and director working in film, theatre and television. He was literary manager at the Royal Shakespeare Company, Head of TV Drama Development at Tiger Aspect Productions and Artistic Director & Chief Executive of Bristol Old Vic.

While at the BBC Simon was an Editorial Policy Advisor across all media as well as working as an Assistant Producer and Script Editor in TV drama. He worked with some of the country's brightest writers and directors including Stephen Poliakoff, Paul Greengrass (on the BAFTA award-winning Murder of Stephen Lawrence), Lee Hall, Rebecca Frayn, Andrew Davies, David Hare and Tony Marchant.

His theatre directing credits include Cyrano de Bergerac, The Turn of the Screw, Epitaph for the Official Secrets Act and Pinter's The Dumb Waiter, The Birthday Party and the 50th anniversary production of Pinter's first play The Room in the same room in which it was first performed.

As director of his own production company Poonamallee Productions he had produced and directed Philip Pullman's The Scarecrow & His Servant and the Michael Morpurgo Concert Series. Simon is a close collaborator with Michael, adapting many of his stories for stage, screen and audio, including the stage adaptations of Twist of Gold (Polka Theatre), The Mozart Question (UK tour) and Private Peaceful which was last revived by the National Theatre at the Haymarket, autumn 2012.

Simon’s other plays include Ted Hughes' Tales from Ovid and Salman Rushdie's Midnights' Children (RSC), Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (TMA Award Best Show for Young People) and Pride & Prejudice (Theatre Royal Bath Productions) which is to be revived at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre summer 2013 as the 200th anniversary production . His books include a history of the touring theatre company Cheek by Jowl and Dear Mr Shakespeare: Letters to a Jobbing Playwright.

As well as developing projects for Fluidity Films Simon currently produces Filter Theatre’s touring work.

Guy de Beaujeu – producer & writer

Guy is an experienced filmmaker and the producer of Michael Morpurgo’s WW1 epic Private Peaceful, a major British indie movie released in 2012, starring Richard Griffiths, Frances de la Tour, Maxine Peake, Jack O’Connell & George Mackay.

He co-wrote and produced What You Will, a spoof documentary starring Filter Theatre and featuring Dominic West & Romola Garai, released through Soda Pictures in early 2013. He is the creator and co-writer of The Delacourt Affair, Fluidity’s next feature to be made in autumn 2013.

He also wrote and produced acclaimed low budget independent Living in Hope, giving Bond actress Naomie Harris her first film break. Guy originated and produced an 18 part spoof comedy TV series Gatecrashers for Carlton/ITV2.

He wrote, produced and directed Looking for the Lone Star, a documentary following two British slam poets on tour in America’s Deep South.

As a writer he works across all genres. He has ghost-written Ice Witness, a fiction novel for a BBC personality based on a script of the same name he also wrote. Other commissions include the script for Dangerous Days, a feature film commission for LA-based Kriege Films. This true story follows the exploits of two escaped POWs at the end of WWII.