Richard Hansom has a wide range of experience as a writer and script editor in the UK and Irish animation industries, including such world-wide favourites as Bob the Builder and Shaun the Sheep. His projects have garnered 5 Baftas®, 2 International Emmys, and an Academy Award® nomination for Wallace & Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death, for which he was development producer. He also works extensively as a theatre director and was previously artistic director of the London new writing venue The Old Red Lion Theatre. He is based in Tipperary, Ireland.