WE ARE
Female lens. Untamed stories.
Mammal Haus is a writer-led UK production company founded in 2025 by screenwriter and playwright Rebecca Crookshank. We develop bold, character-driven stories for film and television about people on the outside and on the move, with women at the helm and outsiders at the centre. Our deep roots in the Gulf help us to build the international partnerships that give these stories a home.
Our first short film, FROG, starring Laura Whitmore and Evanna Lynch, begins its festival journey in 2027.
Productions
FROG
Festival Run 2027/28
Short film.
Cory has one frozen embryo left, her younger sister Bree, is trying to save the frogs that once told women they were pregnant. Neither of them can make life happen alone.
A short film starring Laura Whitmore and Evanna Lynch: a love letter to family and science, a taste of the roller-coaster and lived infertility experience through a new lens.
Writer: Rebecca Crookshank Director: Sophie King
A Mammal Haus film in association with FaF Films and Rope Ladder Fiction
Press: https://deadline.com/2025/10/laura-whitmore-evanna-lynch-david-mumeni-frog-cast-1236599031/
People
FOUNDER
Rebecca Crookshank is a British-Irish playwright, screenwriter and producer, and the founder of Mammal Haus. At 17 she joined the Royal Air Force, and her years as an airwoman working in radar, in an overwhelmingly male world, became Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. Her award-winning solo play premiered in Edinburgh, toured the UK, received its international premiere on 42nd Street, New York, and is published by Bloomsbury. It was shortlisted for a Liberty Human Rights Arts Award and earned four Broadway World nominations, and her Channel 4 News interview on military harassment was viewed more than 5 million times.
She was one of three playwrights on attachment to the Old Vic on the Old Vic 12, and is an inaugural BAFTA Connect member. Her work has been in funded development with the BBC, Sky and Arts Council England, and she was selected for the inaugural Amazon MGM Studios UAE, NFTS and Dubai Film and Games Commission cohort in 2026. British Council residencies in Vietnam and a guest residency at Alserkal Arts Foundation in the UAE have shaped her international practice.
As a writer and producer, she is inspired by universal womanhood, cross-cultural friendship and her Scottish traveller showfolk heritage. She is the Executive Producer of Mammal Haus’s first short film, FROG, starring Laura Whitmore and Evanna Lynch, which begins its festival journey in 2027.
Perpetually stretched between systems and dismantling them as she goes, Rebecca writes across time zones, between what was planned and what cannot be tamed.
Represented by Adam Maskell at Curtis Brown.
In their words.
Rebecca has a visionary and self-built view of the world, wholly empathetic of others while being true to her own narrative and poetic vision. Her work is alluring, with strength of meaning, while being absolutely accessible, with the potential for mainstream and commercial audiences.
Cameron Roach
Chair of RTS North West, Founder of Rope Ladder Fiction and former Director of Drama at Sky
Member of the Mammal Haus Advisory Board
Guided by Rebecca’s bold and original vision, Mammal Haus is a home for stories that are layered in their meaning, profoundly imaginative, and full of intimacy and immediacy.
Avni Doshi
Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Burnt Sugar and The First House
Member of the Mammal Haus Advisory Board
Mammal Haus can open up a space where storytelling across geographies is not about making everything universally legible, but about allowing different cultural contexts to meet each other without being simplified.
General Enquiries hello@mammal.haus
Rebecca Crookshank rebecca@mammal.haus