Laura Cotton

Laura Cotton is an Executive Producer and Head of Development for World Productions Wales, where she fosters a slate of exciting, ambitious high-end drama. She is Executive Producer on The Party – a five-part mystery drama for ITV starring Luke Evans, based on Elizabeth Day’s acclaimed novel, and adapted for screen by Sarah Solemani. Laura also served as Executive Producer on The Gathering, a character-led whodunnit for Channel 4, written by Helen Walsh, which won the Golden Nymph Award for Best Fiction, and Best Drama at the RTS North West Awards.

Laura began her career as a runner, production secretary, and co-ordinator before moving into drama development and script editing. She script edited Belonging for BBC Wales and three series of Being Human, which won the Writers’ Guild Award for Best TV Drama for each of those series. She also script edited Becoming Human for BBC3, Switch for ITV2, and Ellen for C4. Laura went on to produce the S4C series Cara Fi (Love Me), which she co-created with Sarah Dollard, and proudly served on C4’s new-talent initiatives Coming Up and 4Stories. Prior to joining World, Laura was Head of Development at Hillbilly Films, developing a wide range of projects for television.