NICOLA DAVIES - Media PA & Produ

FREELANCE ASSIGNMENTS WITHIN THE MEDIA INDUSTRIES:
Personal Assistant to Miss Joyce Weiner of Joyce Weiner Associates, Literary Agents (one year)
Personal Secretary to Mr Motilal Kothari - independent film producer on “Gandhi” (6 months)
Personal Assistant to MD of Television Partners - independent prod. company, which made a 6-part dance series for Channel Four (1year). I attended the 1st London Multi Media Market ‘82.
Manager - Stage Centre Personal Management Co-Operative Theatrical Agency (2 years)
Production Assistant - Martin Kane Prods - film documentary production company (3 months)
Assistant - Portman Theatre Productions - helping with office work, auditions & play readings.
PA - Four Acre Film Company - commercials production company.
PA - Avanti - commercials production company.
PA to the Managing Director of Granada Theatres Limited (two years)

2 years working for EMI Broadcast Programmes Ltd (EMISON) at their West London Recording Studio, as Spoken-Word Producer/Editor, Voice Librarian and PA to the Head of Production :- Anglicising (from American), scripting and producing children’s stories for cassettes (and books):
Aladdin, Hansel & Gretel, Pinocchio, Tom Thumb, Snow White, Cinderella, Ugly Duckling, etc.
Producing promos/flexidiscs for World Records album collections: “The Buddy Holly Story” (with Hank Marvin), “The Very Best of Bing”, “The World of Country Music”, “The Great Glen Campbell”.
Commercials for EMI Films, EMI Records, RCA, Arista, Bass Charrington, ICI, Nibs Limited.
World Economic Overview: producing monthly economic forecasts (on cassette) for Wall Street Investors. Working with regular contributors: Patrick Sergeant (Daily Mail City Office), Mary Goldring (The Investors Chronicle) and Peter Jay.
INFORMAT: multi-lingual programming of press-button information machines (hotels, airports etc).
The Great Mystery Round the World: 8-part crime story written & recorded by 8 top crime writers.
I produced the episodes with Len Deighton and Dick Francis.
FOCUS: monthly marketing magazine (on cassette) for Beecham’s sales representatives.

·	Courses: Documentary Film Production Course @ South Hill Park with Francis Dobbs and Richard Thornicroft. Researched, filmed and edited a documentary on “Guide Dogs for the Blind”. Directing for the Theatre @ the Earnley Concourse.

·	At Stansted Hall, between 1995 and 2000, I produced and/or directed several plays, pantos and comedy shows, which included devising, writing & producing a ‘new’ episode of “Fawlty Towers”.