Pippa Harris
Dame Pippa Harris DBE is an Oscar-nominated, BAFTA award-winning, film and television producer, who established Neal Street Productions in 2003 alongside Sam Mendes and Caro Newling. 
 
Since the formation of Neal Street, Pippa has produced the multi award-winning First World War epic, 1917, as well as Empire of Light, Starter for Ten, Stuart A Life Backwards, and co-produced Jarhead.  She also executive produced Things We Lost in the Fire, Away We Go and the Oscar-nominated Revolutionary Road, as well as the feature documentaries We Are Many and What They Found.

Pippa’s upcoming film projects include Hamnet, based on the bestselling novel by Maggie O’Farrell, directed by Chloé Zhao and starring Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal, as well as an adaptation of Enid Blyton’s children’s classic The Magic Faraway Tree written by Simon Farnaby and starring Andrew Garfield and Claire Foy. In addition, Pippa is producing The Beatles project for Sony; four movies - one on each of the Beatles, starring Harris Dickinson, Barry Keoghan, Paul Mescal and Joseph Quinn, which will be directed by Sam Mendes. 
 
Pippa’s TV work also includes the hugely successful BBC series Call the Midwife which she has executive produced for the past 15 years, as well as Britannia, Penny Dreadful, The Hollow Crown, and The Franchise. Neal Street’s recent stage productions include the Tony award-winning The Lehman Trilogy, and the acclaimed productions of The Motive and The Cue, The Hills of California and The Fifth Step. 

Following her tenure as Chair of BAFTA, Pippa is now their Vice President of Television. Pippa is also Chair of Charleston, a museum and gallery which was home of the Bloomsbury group. She is a Trustee of The Royal Foundation of the Prince and Princess of Wales, and an Ambassador for Women for Women International. Before setting up Neal Street, Pippa was the Head of Drama Commissioning for the BBC. In 2015 she was made a Dame in the Dissolution Honours.