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Trainee News Journalist for Strut News UK

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Ruby’s Mum’s sister

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Front of house at Strut Media/office-tech geek

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Resident breakfast DJ on Strut FM

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Programme Director for Strut FM and News UK

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Chief Executive and founder of Strut Media Group

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Head of Strut Digital TV

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MEDIA

Malissa has worked in the music and TV industry for the past 15 years. Her first media break was at MTV/Viacom where she worked in programming for various channels such as MTV, Paramount and The Movie Channel.

Working with high profile celebrities Malissa was then offered an opportunity to join the team at Capital Radio working for the Head of UK Programming Richard Park. She also worked with Capital Radio’s in-house record label Wildstar Records, a joint venture with Telstar records, which launched the careers of Craig David, Travis and Mystique. Malissa then helped to launch Richard Park’s media company (TRPC) – working with Universal Records and OK Magazine on various media projects as well as overseeing events such as Party in the Park for the Princes Trust.

SINGER SONGWRITER

Malissa has been a professional singer-songwriter since she was 16 years old after becoming a finalist for ‘Songwriter Of The Year’ in conjunction with Capital Radio, Coca-Cola and The Evening Standard. This lead to her first management deal and launching her first album with a TV debut on Channel 4’s cult show ‘The Word’.   After developing as a singer song-writer, working with a variety of Top 40 producers, Malissa launched her own independent production company ‘Pop Sessions’ and recording studio ‘Diverse Music’. These businesses launched a roster of pop artists as well as writing for new and established acts – successfully securing management, licensing and recording deals. Malissa is proudly represented and published by Peer Music and has recently been in the studio recording material for her new TV project ‘London Girl’.  

TELEVISON WRITER

In 2012 Malissa started work on creating and writing her first TV comedy. This is currently in development with London Girl Limited and Red Door TV productions. The show has been co written and produced by Trevor McCallum, who has written for the likes of Frankie Howerd, Spitting Image and Not The Nine O’clock News. The script and pilot are complete and includes a cast of household names such as Robert Harley (Green Wing, The Delivery Man), Julie Peasgood (Emmerdale, Hollyoaks), and Tony McMurray (Give Out Girls) to name but a few and with a guest appearance from Tony Blackburn.

RED DOOR TV PRODUCTIONS

Trevor McCallum – Director/Writer

Trevor has worked in Comedy since starting as a writer on many 80s TV and Radio comedy series including Not the 9 O'clock News, Two Ronnies, Spitting Image, Weekending and Three of a Kind.

He was a founding part of Writers Inc which won the Perrier Award in 1982 and a Fringe First in 1981 before going on to produce and direct on many comedy and light entertainment series for BBC 1, BBC 2, CBBC, C4 and ITV – he was Frankie Howerd's last ever producer.

In the 90s he was a senior comedy development executive at Central TV – he developed the award winning ITV comedy, 'Outside Edge’ by Richard Harris plus a season on ‘Spitting Image’ as executive producer for Central TV. While at Central he script edited ‘Your mother wouldn’t like it’ the Bafta winning kids show.

In 1995 he was appointed as Vice President for Comedy at the New York/London based production house, DLT Entertainment followed by a season as Executive Producer on ‘As Time Goes By’ with Judi Dench and Jeffrey Palmer.

As a comedy consultant he has worked in Germany, Portugal, New York, LA and RTE in Dublin. As a script editor he has worked with many new and established writers including John Godber, Galton and Simpson, Bob Larby and Richard Harris. He also co wrote with Mark Bussell and produced, the ITV comedy 'Sailor Town' starring James Nesbitt.

In 1996 Trevor launched his own production company, Red Door Television Ltd; credits include ‘Dame Edna's Work Experience’, ‘The Galton and Simpson Play House’ on Radio 2 & Radio 4 along with children’s sketch comedy for ITV, comedy for Bravo and a wide range of lifestyle/food, documentary and reality series. Red Door has recently added commercials and AFP to its portfolio, working with the ad agency, Universal McCanns, and brands such as Sunseeker Boats, Sicilian Tourist Board, Skoda Cars, Yoplait Yoghurt and Old El Paso. Trevor is currently developing a wide range of comedy projects for both children and adults as well as writing a new drama for ITV he has an arts series in production for Discovery due to air later this year.

Executive Producer: Arch Dyson

Arch has been involved in the television and media industries for more than 30 years. He is a director, producer and an executive producer. He has also held many executive management posts with most of the major broadcasters. He has worked across most genres providing high quality content in a professional manner. He is equally at home in a multi camera studio, on large multi camera OB shoots (either recorded or live) and shooting with single camera

In recent years Arch has spent much of his time directing, producing and consulting on shows in many overseas territories. He has established strong ties with Latin American, Middle Eastern and Asian production companies and broadcasters. He regularly consults on and produces formats for a number of European broadcasters and producers.

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