Tracey Larcombe

Writer / Director

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Film, TV & Theatre

Film, TV & Theatre

Tracey Larcombe is a highly skilled director with over 15 years of experience, working in the drama, comedy, and documentary space.

A natural storyteller, Tracey’s style is cinematic, intelligent, and engaging. Most recently, she was lead director on the true-crime series CATCH ME A KILLER for ShowMax. The series, based on Micki Pistorious’ best-selling novel stars Charlotte Hope (GAME OF THRONES) and was the first ever South African series to be selected for the International Panorama competition at SeriesMania. 

She also recently directed JACK THE RIPPER – WRITTEN IN BLOOD for Sky History, which aired in April 2025. The 3 Episode series was filmed on location in Romania, and stars Moe Dunford, Amy-Leigh Hickman and Mark Strepan.

Previous directing credits include, INNOCENT S2 for ITV, starring Katherine Kelly, Jamie Bamber and Shaun Dooley. SILENT WITNESS, series 23 & 25 and DEATH IN PARADISE S13 both for BBC1, the RTS Award winning drama MOVING ON for LA Productions/BBC1 and the BAFTA award winning CBBC show THE DUMPING GROUND. 

As a writer/director, Tracey is developing several of her own projects including FALLING a true-crime series currently co-written with BAFTA winning & Oscar nominated writer Lesley Paterson and iGHOST, a paranom-com feature co-written with David Baddiel.

Television

ProductionCompanyNotes

JACK THE RIPPER - WRITTEN IN BLOOD

2025

Sky History

Exec Producers: Dan Korn; Kathryn Taylor (Sky); Ben Gould (Nutopia)

CATCH ME A KILLER

2025

Amazon (US), Alibi/Now TV (UK), ShowMax (SA)

Eps 1-4

Producer: Brett Wilson (MNet/ShowMax/NightTrain Media)

DEATH IN PARADISE

2024

BBC1

Series 13, Eps 5 & 6

Producer: Joanna Hanley

Exec Producer: Tim Key (Red Planet Productions)

SILENT WITNESS

2022

BBC1

Series 25, ‘History’ Eps 3 & 4

Producer: Nick Lambon

Exec Producer: Lawrence Till

INNOCENT

2022

ITV

4 part Drama series

Producer: Jeremy Gwilt

Exec Producers: Chris Lang, Matt Arlidge, Jeremy Gwilt, Huw Kennair-Jones

SILENT WITNESS

2020

BBC1

Series 23, ‘Hope’ Parts 1 & 2

Producer: Lawrence Till

Exec Producer: Richard Stokes

MOVING ON

2019

LA Productions / BBC

Series 10, Ep 5 ‘By Any Other Name’

Producer: Donna Molloy

Exec Producer: Jimmy McGovern

THE DUMPING GROUND

2019

CBBC

‘Return of the Freaky Twins’ ; ‘The Lone Ranger’ ; ‘Candi-Rose?’ ; ‘Snake’

Producer: Gert Thomas

Exec Producer: Jonathan Phillips

CASUALTY

2018

BBC1

Series 32, Eps 23 & 24

Producer: Jo Johnson

HOLBY CITY

2018

BBC1

‘Love Is’ ; ‘The Right Sort of Animal’

Producer: Ailsa Macaulay Exec Producer: Simon Harper

GOOD OMENS

Amazon / BBC Studios

2nd Unit Director

HOLLYOAKS

2017

Channel 4

‘6 weeks of Summer’ season 5 x Eps

Producer: Hannah Sowden

Exec Producer: Bryan Kirkwood

CASUALTY

2017

BBC1

‘When the Whistle Blows’

Producer: Erika Hossington

Exec Producer: Oliver Kent

CASUALTY

2016

BBC1

'Shock to the System’

Producer: Gail Evans

Exec Producer: Oliver Kent

DOCTORS

2014 - 2016

BBC1

33 episodes

Series Producer: Mike Hobson