Location Manager
Jane is an experienced Location Manager on Feature Films, Modern and Costume TV Dramas and even a Drama Documentary. Her career started in the arts, by selling programmes at The Old Vic and working on the stage door at The Royal Court theatre. She worked in Stage Management at a range of theatres including The Theatre Upstairs at the Royal Court and with Royal Shakespeare Company at the Aldwych Theatre.
In 1976 she began work with Yorkshire Television and after a break for motherhood became a Location Manager in 1990, on the second TV Series of Challenge Anneka. She has since location managed a range of productions, including TV Dramas: Karaoke, Jane Eyre, Neville’s Island, Births, Marriages and Deaths, Sons and Lovers and The Split 3. Feature films include Shiner, Gabriel and Me, Fourth Angel, Separate Lives, Closer, Chromophobia. Stormbreaker, The Flood, Brideshead Revisited, Me and Orson Welles, W.E, Ginger and Rosa, Jack Ryan and The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry.
Jane’s varied career includes working for the London Film Commission on its inception and later briefly for Film London as Location Advisor. She took time away from the “coal face” to be Film Officer for Camden and other boroughs for Film Fixer Ltd. More recently she has been teaching people the skills of Location Managing – sharing the things she has learnt over the years. She learnt her trade by working it out – and making mistakes. Jane’s efforts now are to help people avoid the mistakes she made and to share as much “Good Practice” as she can.
