Sebastian Doggart
director, writer, producer
Sebastian Doggart (Director/Writer/Producer) was educated at King’s College, Cambridge University, where he obtained the top first-class degree in social and political sciences. Sebastian began his career as a journalist in Latin America, working first as Deputy Editor of the Lima Times and then as Economics Editor for the Buenos Aires Herald.
After training as a drama director at Central School of Speech and Drama, he directed theatre for eminent British companies Cheek by Jowl and Actors Touring Company.
In 1997, he was a campaign manager on Martin Bell’s successful bid to become the first Independent MP to be elected to Parliament since 1945.
He moved into TV production, where he produced and/or directed for ITV/Bravo (‘South Bank Show’ & ‘Two Thousand Years’), Channel 4/TF1 (‘Raid Gauloises’), Film Four/Bravo (‘History of Movie Genres’), and Channel 4 (‘Hollywood Vice’).
His interview profiles included Germaine Greer, Kenneth Branagh and Nobel prize-winning Octavio Paz. In 2000, Sebastian moved to the USA where he produced/directed major TV series including Project Runway for Bravo (nominated for a 2005 Primetime Emmy), 15 Films about Madonna for A&E, two series of Damage Control for MTV, Thirty Days for FX (hosted by Oscar-nominated Morgan Spurlock, and nominated for a Producers Guild of America award), the pilot for News Doggs for MTV, ten episodes of American Candidate for Showtime, and two short fictional films.
Sebastian is trilingual and has traveled to over sixty countries. He has written one screenplay, Casanova’s Return and three books, including one on the Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca and one on Latin American theatre. He has been a principal contributor to four other books – Fear and Loathing on Knutsford Heath; Raymond Chandler: A Biography; Family Reflections, and Time Out: Havana – and has written for numerous publications including the New Statesman, The Guardian, The Independent and The Sunday Telegraph.
He is a voting member of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.
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