Joan Lane is a British film and theatre producer, primarily known for having developed and packaged the Academy Award-winning ‘THE KING’S SPEECH’, directed by Tom Hooper and starring Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush and Helena Bonham Carter, and adapted from the stage play by its author David Seidler, who (at his request) she represented for four years.

Her company, Wild Thyme Productions, has toured six innovative productions of Shakespeare’s plays in the UK and Germany (including the first all-female production of ‘Hamlet’) mounted world premiere showcase performances of new plays and musicals in London, and has a double bill in development for 2026, alongside a topical new musical which has already attracted a great deal of interest. 

Primarily engaged as a Consultant by the BBC, Joan’s skills were used for the recording, filming, and Royal Opera House performance of ‘The Little Prince’. She was a director for BBC Radio Two and BBC Television’s New Talent UK-wide search for the ‘Voice of Musical Theatre’, involved with background music for the film ‘The Actors’, coordinated the participation of singing Angels for Stephen Fry’s directorial film debut ‘Bright Young Things’, and was the casting director and coordinator on a BBC’s Promenade Concert/Opera ‘The Water Diviner’s Tale’.

As well as touring with her own company, she has produced concerts and operas both in London and abroad, worked on a number of plays at the National Theatre and toured with ATG, PW Productions and Pleasance Theatre. She was a member of Major Sir Michael Parker’s team for large-scale State events such as VE Day and VJ Day and was the assistant director on HM the Queen Mother’s 100^th Birthday Celebrations on Horse Guards Parade, televised worldwide. Since 2019, she has been the resident judge on the Kenneth Branagh Award for New Drama Writing. Brought in to edit the screenplay of ‘Gateway to the West’, she went on to rewrite it. The film is now in post-production and due out later this year or in 2026. (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13542474/).