About me
With finely tuned skills for narrative development, story structure, and character motivation, alongside extensive production industry experience and understanding, I can help support the script development process though to production. Honest, constructive, rigorous and enabling in my approach, we could cut through hours of painful ‘development hell’ and ‘what ifs’ to make something good happen. I am committed to excellence, nurturing and supporting talent throughout a direct and fun collaborative creative process. Although my most recent experiences have been in feature films, I have worked in television drama for many years and believe that never before has the cross-over potential between film and high-end television been so fluid, competitive and exciting. Now is a great time to be working with the transferable core skills and experience I have to create strong narratives whatever the format. I have ongoing relationships with talent agencies and developed useful creative and business relationships with a wide range of UK and international production companies, financiers, sales agents and distributors.
I’d be happy to support you or your company with the whole story from script to screen and engage with you at whatever point you are at in the creative development and production process.
If you’d like to know more about working together, please contact me here.
Testimonials
"I have known Sheryl Crown, both personally and professionally, for many years.
As someone who writes all their own screenplays, I find Sheryl’s ability to read and analyse scripts, in all phases of editorial development, absolutely invaluable. She is able to understand and empathise with the source material as well as my own perception of the material, and what I’m trying to do with it. Thus, she is singularly able to assist me in tying those two strands together in a concise manner whilst maintaining the broader narrative arc.
In a more traditional, practical role as lead producer I have never had any cause to doubt her abilities whatsoever. She is both dynamic and calming and she just gets the job done.
I work with Sheryl and would not hesitate to recommend her to anyone."
Terence Davis – Film Director
“Sheryl is an exceptionally gifted development executive. Alongside a strong instinct for story and a depth of experience in analyzing scripts, she has the ability to engage with the writer’s process in an exacting but supportive way to deliver the best possible results for everyone involved. What I’ve seen her achieve is amazing.”
Linda James - Producer – Sly Fox Films
"Sheryl has given the best notes of any development executive I have worked with since 1994. She understands both ends of the screenwriting process - big picture thinking, and clarity about purpose across the team before any writing starts: then simple touches that make the intention behind the writing more effective: - when more - and less - emphasis is needed."
Clare Foster - Screenwriter
"Having known Sheryl for many years in my roles overseeing both public and commercial film finance, I can vouch for her sound creative and business acumen, her absolute integrity and the fact that she is a pleasure to work with. Never afraid to say what needs to be said, Sheryl is a safe and skilled pair of hands to guide any film or television project through its process from early development, through to packaging, production and exploitation”
Pauline Burt – Head of Film Agency Wales - FFilm Cymru
"Sheryl is a tenacious and dynamic producer who approaches every film with tremendous energy and passion. Her storytelling instinct -- across both factual and fiction -- is honed by years of experience, and her track-record speaks for itself."
Philip Carter – Documentary Feature Director