Tigress Announces New Leadership
Bristol, London, 5th May 2016 – Tigress Productions, the leading producer of innovative adventure, wildlife, specialist factual, features and factual entertainment programming, today announce changes to the leadership team.
Following a career spanning 35 years, including twelve at Tigress Productions as Managing Director, Dick Colthurst, has decided to retire from television in the autumn to live in the Alps. Stepping into the MD role, and joining the existing management team, is Sarah Swingler who has been an Executive Producer with sister company, Dragonfly, for six years, recently heading up the Cardiff based operation of Dragonfly West.
Also joining Tigress Productions is Catherine Welton from RDF West, who has been appointed Creative Director. This post was formerly held by Pete Lawrence who joined Tigress in December 2013 with a remit to expand the company’s innovative features and factual entertainment programming. After the success of his first book, ‘The Allotment Cookbook’, Pete recently left the company to pursue his own television and writing projects.
