Simon Wright is Managing Director of Big Tree Productions. He started his producing career in 1982 when he joined the Comic Strip. Appointed Managing Director of the company, he went on to produce a majority of their Channel 4 shows including their first feature film The Supergrass and such classics as Adrian Edmondson’s More Bad News, Alexi Sayle’s Didn’t You Kill My Brother, French & Saunders's Consuela and Rik Mayall’s Mr Jolly Lives Next Door.
In 1987 Simon left the Comic Strip to pursue a freelance writing career. For the next two years he was a contributor to a wide variety of UK television comedy and drama programmes.
Simon joined Working Title in 1990 and was President of WTTV (Working Title Television) for 17 years.
UK credits include The Last of the Blonde Bombshells (HBO/BBC/Universal) starring Judi Dench, Ian Holm and Olympia Dukakis, Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) (BBC/Universal) starring Vic Reeves, Bob Mortimer and Emilia Fox, Kingsley Amis’s Lucky Jim (ITV/WGBH) starring Stephen Tompkinson, Keeley Hawes and Helen McCrory, Jekyll & Hyde starring John Hannah, Jack Rosenthal’s Ready When You Are, Mr McGill starring Tom Courtenay, Bill Nighy and Amanda Holden.
His international television credits include The Tales of the City (Channel 4/PBS), More Tales of the City (Channel 4/Showtime/ Hallmark), Further Tales of the City (Showtime/Hallmark), Double Bill aka A Tale of Two Wives (Sky/Oxygen) starring Peter Gallagher, Cheryl Hines and Dervla Kirwan, Perfect Strangers (CBS) starring Rob Lowe and Anna Friel, The Adventures of Lano and Woodley (ABC Australia/Polygram), The Robber Bride (CBC/Oxygen) based on the Margaret Atwood book starring Mary Louise Parker, Amanda Root and Susan Lynch and The Murder of Princess Diana (Lifetime Television Networks) starring Jennifer Morrison and Kevin McNally.