Simon has an unusually versatile track record, having won awards across several genres and been involved in many of the landmark UK factual TV programmes of the last two decades.
He’s worked as a writer, producer, director and exec on multiple EMMY, BAFTA and RTS-winning and nominated projects, spanning drama, science, current affairs, history, business, reality and specialist factual.
These include the BAFTA-nominated drama, ‘The Day Britain Stopped’, the BAFTA-nominated specialist factual show ‘Supersized Earth’, the RTS-winning history series ‘A Dangerous Dynasty: House of Assad’, and the RTS-winning science series ‘Invisible Worlds’.
He’s also written and produced a feature film that won the International Critics Prize on its release at the Toronto Film Festival and sold theatrically around the world.
In 2019 he exec produced the EMMY-winning current-affairs series ‘Inside North Korea’s Dynasty’ for National Geographic.
In 2020/21 he was the creative producer and edit director for the EMMY-nominated feature documentary: ‘9/11: Inside the President’s War Room’ (Apple TV+ / BBC) marking the 20th anniversary of the attacks.
In 2022 he directed the multi award-winning ‘Elizabeth: The Unseen Queen’, to which the Monarch contributed an introduction, shortly before her death.
Screen International has described him as the co-creator of “a number of innovative and convincing dramas on pressing topical issues, acclaimed for their plausibility, naturalism and integrity.”
