Roguegunners is a collective of talented film, TV, theatre and radio creatives. With multiple award-winning projects across genres and media types we have a proven track record of creating great work.
We are
Johnny Blanchard
Johnny has been writing most of his life, creating short films, plays, documentaries, books, video games, podcasts and short form video pulling on over 30 years experience in technology including software and hardware engineering and technical leadership.
He founded Roguegunners Productions in 2021 with Erica Miller so they could pursue creating his works in a more traditional way.
Johnny has written several short films including the award winning Control, ScreenTime and Lost and Found. He has also written plays including two for Roguegunners successful Shorties event.
Under the re:enthused banner Johnny has made over 500 short form videos and podcast episodes around technology, video games under the Tonsomo entertainment banner and also wrote the successful book, Gaming in the Obscure.
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Catherine Harvey
Catherine Harvey’s adaptation of The Manxman for Radio 4’s Saturday Drama – Love Stories is currently available on BBC Sounds. She has worked in radio for over 25 years as an actor in Radio Drama and Arts for Radio 3, 4 and the World Service, and as creator and series producer of 5 series of Tongue and Talk: The Dialect Poets for Radio 4 (MiM). The series has been regularly featured on Pick of the Week and Daljit Nagra’s Poetry Extra. As well as developing, writing and presenting episodes across all 5 series, she co-produced/written/presented Colomendy: A Rite of Passage forBBC Radio Wales and has worked on several Witness programmes for the World Service, including The Last Keeper of the Light and Mistaken Point. She also works extensively as an actor and writer in Theatre, TV and film, and as a documentary and theatre photographer.
Catherine has recently worked on a number of co-productions between Roguegunners Productions, Rhyme & Reason and The Finborough Theatre, London. She devised and directed An Earl’s Court Miscellany, which received an Off West End Audio Award Nomination and led to two spin-off Earl’s Court Walking Tours; and directed Remember Your Lovers, which was devised by Neil McPherson from the poetry of Sidney Keyes. Both are currently available on the Finborough Theatre’s website.
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Erica Miller
Erica Miller is a mixed race director who has worked in theatres including The National Theatre, The Bush, Young Vic, Arcola Theatre and Hope Theatre. She works mostly in New Writing. She is Co Artistic Director of Merry Spinsters and Roguegunners Productions. As director of audio, she has made a short, Eulogies by Lashay Green for The Fizzy Sherbet Podcast.
With Roguegunners, she has directed and produced multiple short films. Three of which; Control, Lost and Found and ScreenTime have been selected in Film Festivals and granted awards. As well, as producing a feature poetry film, ‘An Earl’s Court Miscellany’, which was a co-production between Roguegunners, Rhyme & Reason and The Finborough Theatre – it received an Off West End Audio Award Nomination (Offie) for its audio.
As well as her skills as a director Erica pulls on her degree in Theology and post-graduate diploma in fine arts to help research and craft human stories.
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Iain Mackness
Iain has over twenty years of experience in producing, mixing and directing radio programmes and features for BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 4Extra, Downtown Radio, Jazz FM, BBC World Service, BBC Radio 5 Live, and the DW network in Germany. His most recent project as a sound designer is Remember Your Lovers – a co-production between Roguegunners, Rhyme & Reason and The Finborough Theatre
He was director of the first ever BBC Radio 5 Live drama productionDon’t Cry For Me Maradona with Tim Healey and Denise Welch (MiM). He was sound designer for the Radio 4 drama Agatha Christie’s The Lie(MiM), and director and sound designer of The Manxman on BBC Radio 4 (MiM) – partly recorded on location on the Isle of Man.
Other work includes Dreaming of Foxes for 4Extra (MiM), numerous original dramas for The Independent online including the award-winningRock (MiM – Best Online Audio Production at the BBC Audio Drama Awards 2012), 16 episodes of the radio series Suzie Pugh and a Monster Too! with Vicky Binns, and 26 episodes of Sounds Like This for CBeebies Radio (MiM)
As Head of Production for Made in Manchester from 2016 to 2022, he was responsible for the production and delivery of nearly all output, including over sixty episodes of Witness History and seventy episodes of Sporting Witness for the BBC World Service.
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