"Sign Up - Into Football" is a monthly football show on TNT Sports, hosted by Damaris Cooke and Rolf Choutan, who are both deaf. This groundbreaking programme uses British Sign Language (BSL), voiceover and subtitles to ensure it is accessible for both deaf and hearing audience alike.The aim of the series is to raise the profile of the deaf community, elevate the visibility of BSL, and lead the way in making sports programming accessible for all.

Starting Stories is a dynamic production company that creates vibrant, meaningful and affordable online videos.

• Working predominantly on football, but also rugby, motorsport, horse racing, athletics and more• Producer for BT Sport’s Premier League, UEFA Champions League, Europa League, Premiership Rugby and Heineken Cup coverage since 2015/16, editing features, match highlights, interviews, promos, openers, closers, and also Pres Co-ording• Features producer for ITV’s 2019 Rugby World Cup – editing the key stories from the tournament, including the piece on South Africa captain Siya Kolisa ahead of the final• Analysis producer for ITV’s 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia• Features Producer for ITV’s Euro 2016 coverage – editing the key stories from the tournament, including Roy Hodgson’s very last interview as England manager, the headline Cristiano Ronaldo feature ahead of the final, and a short film about former Wales manager Gary Speed which received critical acclaim from The Guardian, The Sun and the Daily Mail, and was described by Speed’s parents as “a fantastic, brilliant tribute – it couldn’t have been better”• Producer for Host Broadcast Services on the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil – in their new Multimedia Team, conceiving and developing ideas and delivering original, vibrant, unconventional content that would appeal to an international audience for the official, global app. I also edited numerous pieces myself, and had my work broadcast on ESPN Brazil• Director and producer of an half-hour documentary on Lord Richard Attenborough for Sky, following his death in 2014 – “so rich in detail, imagination and care… my Dad would have admired it and been most touched by it” (his son, the Honourable Michael Attenborough, CBE)• Producer for Channel 4’s BAFTA award-winning coverage of the London 2012 Paralympics and their Broadcast award-winning coverage of the Rio 2016 Paralympics – finding and telling the most interesting, moving, bizarre or funny stories from the Games. I also worked on their 2014 Winter Paralympics and 2014 IPC European Championships

• On-site Producer for the 2010 Champions League Final and the 2010 FIFA World Cup• Series Producer of Motorsport UK; leading a team of producers, cameramen, editors, talent and technical crew to produce a weekly show which attracts 300,000 viewers• Generating and developing programme and package ideas, approaches to sports coverage and editorial direction• Liaising with Production Management over budgeting, project planning and logistics