Meet The RTE Commissioners

TIME & LOCATION

Wednesday 11 November, 11:30 am

End Time: 12:30 pm

Downstairs Theatre

About

Join us for our first Meet the RTE commissioners panel! Find out what they’re looking to add to their 2027/8 slate

With Sean Mac Giolla Phadraig, Managing Editor of Video, Kathy Fox, Commissioning Editor for Documentaries and Features and Mark Bignell, Commissioning Editor for Comedy.

Chair

Ed Hart

SPONSOR

Panel

Sean Mac Giolla Phadraig

Managing Editor of Video
Sean oversees the commissioning, development, and strategic direction of RTÉ’s documentary, factual programming, and public-interest broadcasting

Mark Bignell

Commissioning Editor for Comedy.
Commissioning Editor for Comedy.

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Kathy Fox

Commissioning Editor, Documentaries and Features
Kathy is an experienced Executive Producer across multiple genres, delivering across RTÉ's linear and on demand platforms. Most recently, in her role as Executive Producer in Documentaries and Features, Kathy has delivered productions including Bad Nanny, Patrick: A Young Traveller Lost, The Case I Can't Forget, The Skinny Jab Revolution and the upcoming six part series set inside CUH, Any Given Day: Cork University Hospital. She is also experienced on the features side of the slate, having been responsible, as Executive Producer for RTÉ, for a wide range of titles including Great House Revival, Raised By the Village, and the expansion of At Your Service from half hours to hours. Earlier this year, Kathy set up and managed the production of The Traitors Ireland Uncloaked, working with an in-house team and in close collaboration with Kite Entertainment, independent producers of The Traitors Ireland, to deliver the series from RTÉ's Limerick base