Team

Lotte Beasley Mestriner joined the Dancing Ledge team as a full-time Executive Producer in 2025. She Executive Produced Big Mood Series 1 and 2 for Channel 4 starring Nicola Coughlan and Lydia West. 

Before joining the company, Lotte Executive Produced four series of Irish writer/director Peter Foott’s hit comedy The Young Offenders for the BBC and RTE. Prior to producing, Lotte worked for eleven years with top-flight talent at Casarotto Ramsay & Associates where she represented film and television writers and directors. Her creative vision and production expertise plays a pivotal role as Dancing Ledge continues to expand its team to deliver its slate of compelling content.

Laurence Bowen is a multi–BAFTA Award winning and Emmy nominated Producer who founded Dancing Ledge in 2016. 

His recent credits as Executive Producer include The Salisbury Poisonings for BBC1, the UK episodes of The New Pope starring Jude Law and John Malkovich for HBO/Sky, The Responder for BBC1 starring Martin Freeman,  Porters for UKTV/Dave, Big Mood for Channel 4 starring Nicola Coughlan and Lydia West, Domino Day for BBC3 and  The Eichmann Show for BBC2. He was presented with the Monte Carlo International Producer Of The Year Award, has won RTS, Broadcast and Chicago Film Festival Awards, received Prix Jeunesse, Rose D’or, Emmy and BANFF nominations and won The Japan Prize.

His earlier work includes Suburban Shootout (starring Tom Hiddleston, Ruth Wilson, Anna Chancellor, Amelia Bullmore and Felicity Montagu), Stone Scissors Paper(starring Juliet Stevenson and Ken Stott), Dual Balls(starring Lesley Manville), Gates (starring Tom Ellis, Joanna Page and Sue Johnston), Miranda (starring Christina Ricci, John Simm, John Hurt, Kyle MacLachlan and Julian Rhind-Tutt), My Life As A Popat (starring Kulvinder Ghir and Shaheen Khan) and The English Harem (starring Art Malik and Martine McCutcheon).
 

Toby joined Dancing Ledge in 2016 as Development Executive and went on to be their Head of Development, leading development across a broad slate of comedy and drama titles, including Delhi Crime for Netflix, Domino Day for BBC3, Crossfire for BBC1 and Platform 7 for ITVX. He script-edited The Salisbury Poisonings, one of the biggest rated dramas of 2020, and story produced the Bafta-nominated first series of The Responder. He was Executive Producer on Wedding Season for Disney+, and the second series of The Responder for BBC1

Prior to working at Dancing Ledge, Toby spent a decade in entertainment and children’s TV.

Gillian joined the Dancing Ledge team in early 2022 as Head of Development. After a brief dalliance with science, Gillian found a love of story and over the past 13 years has worked in development and production for a raft of indies as well as commissioning at Channel 4 and BBC Drama.

An experienced Script Executive and Story Editor of series, serials and singles, she has worked on a diverse range of dramas including Idris Elba’s BBC Three Takeover series Five by Five, the International Emmy-award-winning Utopia by Dennis Kelly, Netflix’s Been So Long by Che Walker and Andrew Davies’s Fanny Hill.

Prior to this role, Gillian worked as a Development Producer on returnable and serial dramas, while creating and producing a script callout programme for under-represented and unagented screenwriters. She is committed to finding and supporting the voices of stories that aren’t being told.

Will joined Dancing Ledge in January 2023 after completing an MA in Screenwriting from the University of Manchester. Starting out as the Office Runner, he spent 18 months as PA to the CEO and MD, and moved to the Development Assistant Role in January 2025, assistant script editing series 2 of Big Mood. 

Georgia joined the Dancing Ledge team in mid 2021 after three years at BBC Studios in Drama Production, working across programmes such as Time, Silent Witness, Our Girl, We Hunt Together, and The Watch. Prior to joining BBC Studios, Georgia worked for Endemol Shine Group in non-scripted entertainment and factual format development, and on the international rollout of titles such as Big Brother, Hunted and All Together Now. Before moving to London, Georgia’s first job in TV was working for the Australian indie Matchbox Pictures.

Jess has been a part of the Dancing Ledge team since 2019. She started her TV career in the world of factual development as a researcher for the award-winning indie, Insight: This World Investigates. She then worked as a book-to-film reader for Dialogue, as well as working freelance as a reader and researcher for Sister Pictures. Once at Dancing Ledge, Jess began as a researcher but soon made her way to more editorial roles. She is now a Development Executive and Script Editor. Jess script edited the second season of The Responder.

Jess is passionate about developing emerging and diverse talent. She hopes to bring to the screen stories yet untold and forms of storytelling unexplored. She works across the slate on both comedy and drama.

Amber joined Dancing Ledge in late 2024, transitioning from factual and documentary into scripted TV. Starting out as an office runner, she’s since progressed to Personal Assistant, now supporting Laurence across development and production. 

Outside of work, she’s usually baking, revisiting TV classics, or being reluctantly forced into another game of Risk. She enjoys stories that make you feel uncomfortable, slightly grossed out, or filled with characters you wouldn’t want to meet in real life.