Rowena Wallace
Peach House is a female-founded talent management and production house est. in 2019 by George Monkland and Rowena Wallace and backed by talent management collective Tricycle Talent. Tricycle’s founder and media veteran Sara Curran is the Peach House chairman.
Peach represents emerging and established, hand-picked talent both in the UK and internationally. We work closely with our actors, writers, directors, and musicians, to create a bespoke relationship with each person, carving a path through the entertainment industry that is tailored to them. Our aim is to nurture and grow the best, most exciting new voices, telling bold, emotive stories through film, television, and theatre.
Rowena has produced multiple award-winning short films including Laura Kirwan-Ashman’s documentary Pxssy Palace and Michael Constable’s Knock at the Door, which won Best Produced Screenplay at the Los Angeles Independent Film Awards. She is currently in pre-production on The Farmhouse, debut feature from actress, writer, and director Emma Pierson, a co-production with Kobalt Entertainment, which is scheduled to shoot October 2021.
Peach House has an exciting development slate with film & television projects from The Bike Thief’s Matt Chambers, filmmaker Benjamin Bond, and aforementioned Laura Kirwan-Ashman’s debut feature Lit, developed with the BFI.
Prior to Peach Rowena worked with some of the industry’s leading directors and producers, including Ben Pugh and Rory Aitken (42), Fred Berger (Automatik), Michael Robinson (Factor Six Films), Max Minghella (Teen Spirit), and Yorgos Lanthimos (The Favourite), before freelance producing feature films, branded content, and commercials for the likes of Smuggler, Pulse, and Black Sheep.
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Show Quotes:
“It's amazing how the harder you work, the luckier you become.” 13:08
“You don't work in this industry because you can earn a quick buck or it's easy to get into or it's easy to progress it. You do it because it's a vocation. And you couldn't imagine doing anything else.” 37:50
“I always just ask questions if I don't understand something. And I think so many people fear asking questions because they think it makes them look weak. Whereas in actual fact, I think it makes you look stronger if you're just confident enough to say, I haven't got a clue what this means.” 54:22