Ben Taylor is a UK comedy and performance director represented in the US by World War Seven and long associated with London’s MindsEye. He set up Netflix’s Sex Education and earned a BAFTA Best Director nomination on Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney’s Catastrophe, with further longform credits including HBO’s Divorce, Channel 4’s Year of the Rabbit, Disney+’s Renegade Nell, the Duffer Brothers’ Netflix series The Boroughs, and his 2024 debut feature Joy (Thomasin McKenzie, Bill Nighy, James Norton), which premiered at the BFI London Film Festival and became Netflix’s number-one film on release. In advertising, WW7 cites campaigns for Google, Mercedes and KFC. Trade-credited spots include BBH London’s KFC “Lunchtime Is Coming…” with Kristian Nairn (2017), Mercedes-Benz UK’s car-hunting-as-modern-dating film (2018), and National Lottery’s 2025 Scratchcard Scavenger Hunt. Earlier brand work covers humorous non-dialogue international Swatch spots and an ambitious Lynx choose-your-own-adventure online film. Craft signals center on comedy performance, casting, and energetic realism—handheld, fast-delivery, in-late-out-early staging developed on Catastrophe and sketch roots via Cardinal Burns.