Stuart Urban
Photo credit: Giulia Fassina
Agent: Conrad Williams
Biography: Stuart is an award-winning writer, director and executive producer who has worked across both film and TV for more than thirty years.
After honing his craft working on long-running series THE BILL and BERGERAC, Stuart won the BAFTA Award for Best Single Drama in 1993 for his Falklands War drama AN UNGENTLEMANLY ACT. He would follow this up in 1996 with a second BAFTA Award for Best Drama Serial, for his directorial work on the BBC’s seminal series OUR FRIENDS IN THE NORTH.
His theatrical writer/director credits include PREACHING TO THE PERVERTED, REVELATION and MAY I KILL U? He is also a celebrated documentary maker with the BIFA-nominated TOVARISCH, I AM NOT DEAD telling the story of his own father’s escape from both the Russian Gulags and his family’s fate in the Holocaust and the recent Sky crime documentary THE MYSTERY OF SUZY LAMPLUGH.
In 2016, Stuart wrote and was executive producer on the critically acclaimed true crime miniseries THE SECRET starring James Nesbitt and Genevieve O'Reilly, produced by Hat Trick Productions for ITV. The series was nominated for a BAFTA and a Royal Television Society award. When it appeared on Netflix in 2022, it was in the Top Ten charts in the UK for weeks.
In 2021, Stuart wrote and directed A BALL IN THE BRAIN, a 4-part Drama Podcast based on the true story of a lone British general, besieged in his palace by an Islamist army in 1884. Produced by The Script Department, the podcast was read by actor Pip Torrens and was part of a major Screen International feature. The same year, Stuart produced and directed a two-part True Crime documentary series for Sky TV called THE MYSTERY OF SUZY LAMPLUGH, which was met with critical acclaim.
Stuart has several writing projects in active development. He is also set to direct a 6 x 1 hour thriller series, ENDANGERED, for Forlan Films/ M-net. The series is adapted from the novel by Rudi van Rensberg by Jake Riddell and will commence production in South Africa in 2024.
