Anna Burns joins Rogan Productions
Rogan Productions is delighted to welcome Anna Burns as our new Head of Scripted Development, a role that signals our next chapter as we grow from global documentary leaders into a home for distinctive scripted stories. Her appointment reflects our excitement about the slate already in funded development with major broadcasters and the momentum behind our first scripted projects. Anna joins us at a pivotal moment. Following the release of Boom Box: Beats and Betrayal for HBO Max – our ground-breaking drama doc series about Operation Peyzac – we have seen first-hand how our factual storytelling can evolve into compelling scripted narratives.
The blend of first-hand testimony and dramatised scenes in Boom Box has opened up rich creative territory, and Anna will be at the heart of shaping where we go next.
Owned and run by James and Soleta Rogan, our company has already had a remarkable year with six titles released, including Bowie: The Final Act, Becoming Victoria Wood and The Secret of Me, all of which reached cinema audiences as well as viewers at home. These projects, alongside awards recognition for Grenfell: Uncovered on Netflix – including BAFTA Craft nominations and a win for Emerging Talent: Factual – have reinforced our belief that there is space for bold, authored storytelling that speaks to global audiences.
Anna steps into a senior creative team that has been carefully built over the past few years. Her arrival follows the appointments of Merle Currie as Head of Unscripted Development and Jenny Popplewell as Head of Factual, creating a leadership group that spans the full range of our output. Together, they will help ensure that every project, whether scripted or unscripted, is crafted with the same integrity, ambition and attention to detail that our partners expect from Rogan Productions.
In taking on this new role, Anna will lead the growth of our scripted slate, nurturing ideas from first conversations through to commission and production. She will work closely with writers, directors and producing partners to champion distinctive voices and stories, while drawing on our track record of telling complex, often sensitive real-world narratives with care.
