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Kirsty Calvert-Ansari

Creative Director of Development

Kirsty is a highly experienced Creative Director of Development, and Executive Producer, with a proven track record of creating, developing and producing prime-time projects across multiple unscripted genres which have sold internationally.

At Firecracker, she is integral for pushing headline-making premium factual series and documentaries through from seed idea right into pre-production, including Joe Swash: Teens in Care, Body in the Bag, Litvinenko: The Mayfair Poisonings, Six Schizophrenic Brothers, and The Plymouth Shootings.

With 20 years’ experience, Kirsty has also run development at some of the UK’s top production companies, including the BBC, and a member of the teams that developed shows such as Child Genius, The Great British Bake Off, 100 Year Old Drivers and Paras: Ready for War, as well as working on the first series of The Undateables and Child of Our Time.

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