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Recent work

A selection of recent projects described by the studio.

  • Sentimental Value (film). Drama. Directed by Joachim Trier. Audio described. Awards: Grand Prix, Cannes 2025; Best International Feature, Academy Awards 2026.
  • No Other Choice (film). Thriller. Directed by Park Chan-wook. In competition, Venice 2025. Audio described.
  • The Secret Agent (film). Thriller. Directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho. Audio described. Awards: Best Director, Cannes 2025; Best Actor, Cannes 2025.
  • Ne Zha 2 (film). Animation. Directed by Jiaozi. Audio described.
  • Tokyo Revengers (series). Anime. Season 3 · Disney+. Audio described.
  • Hamilton (theatre). Musical. Victoria Palace Theatre. Audio described.
  • Jerusalem (theatre). Play. Apollo Theatre. Audio described.
  • Oklahoma! (theatre). Musical. NT Live. Audio described.

Make it accessible, grow your audience.

Audio description narrates the essential visual detail of a story, from action and expression to setting and costume, in the gaps between dialogue and sound. Done well, it disappears into the work, so a blind or low-vision audience member experiences the same story beats at the same time as everyone watching.

2 million+ people in the UK live with sight loss, according to RNIB

The commercial and legal case has never been stronger. Ofcom sets access-service quotas for UK broadcasters, and the European Accessibility Act came into force in June 2025.

10% of programmes: Ofcom's audio description target for UK TV channels

28 June 2025 the date the European Accessibility Act began to apply

Streamers now expect AD as a standard deliverable, and venues increasingly programme described performances as a matter of course.

38.6% of on-demand services reporting to Ofcom offered audio description in 2024, up from 32.1% the year before

The better reason is simpler. It shows every audience member you care. Description written well reflects the values of the production and the producers it serves.

140+ productions described across film, TV, theatre and galleries

Since 2019 describing professionally, from the West End to global streaming

What we do

Script, voice, or both, from a reel to a series. Every job designed to fit your platform, and post-production pipeline.

Film & streaming

The heart of the studio. Description scripts and recorded narration for feature releases, shorts and series, timed to the frame, designed to complement the sound mix, and delivered to the house styles of the platform you're working with.

Recent titles: Releases on Netflix, Disney+, Amazon, Sky and NBCUniversal, The BFI Network, and Mubi theatrical releases.

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Social & new media

The formats that don't have an access playbook yet: social video, virtual reality, web campaigns and interactive work. This is where the studio is pushing hardest. If it's visual and it's new, it can be described.

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Live theatre

Where the craft was built. Live, in-venue description through the theatre's headset system, from Shakespeare at the Globe to new writing at the Royal Court. Thirty productions across the West End and beyond, panto included.

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Museums, galleries & heritage

Described tours, exhibition films and installation audio for cultural spaces. Recent projects include work at the British Museum, the British Library, Tate Modern and the Tower of London.

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Training & consultancy

Through Describe has helped organise ongoing development training for describers with VocalEyes and the Audio Description Association, and helped facilitate AD awareness training for cultural organisations. If you need training, we can help, or point you to the right people.

How a project runs

Here's the shape of a typical job.

Screen

  1. Brief. We agree format, deadlines and delivery spec. You send the materials; Through Describe flags anything that needs a decision early.
  2. Prepare. Through Describe views the work closely and maps the spaces between dialogue and sound where description can live.
  3. Script. We create a timed script drafted to your platform's style guide, choosing the visual details that matter most to the story.
  4. Deliver. Recorded narration to your audio spec, delivered in the formats your platform asks for.

Stage

  1. Brief. We agree dates, venue and which performances are described. You send the script, recordings and rehearsal access.
  2. View. Through Describe sees the production and notes the set, costume and movement that need words.
  3. Script. We create a description script and a pre-show introduction covering set, costume and cast, ready for the audience's headsets.
  4. Live Delivery. Live description in the venue on the night, through the theatre's headset system, rehearsed and ready. We also run a touch tour for your patrons, allowing them a tactile navigation of the stage.

Socials

  1. Brief. We agree platforms, formats and deadlines. You send the assets; Through Describe flags where a format has no usual access route.
  2. Strategise. Through Describe reviews the content and decides how description should work in the format: voiced, written, or built into the experience.
  3. Script. Description written for the format: tight for short video, spatial and layered for virtual reality and interactive work.
  4. Deliver. Voiced files, text or in-experience description, delivered in whatever each platform needs.

Behind the studio

Through Describe Studio was founded by Michael Skellern to provide film-first script and voice work for features, shorts and streaming, to establish a growing specialism in social and new media, and to ensure that blind and low-vision audiences get the whole story.

Trained as a describer in 2019 with Roz Chalmers OBE and VocalEyes, the leading provider of audio description in London's West End, he's described live at the National Theatre, the Old Vic, the Royal Court, the Donmar Warehouse and Shakespeare's Globe.

Film and television is now the heart of Through Describe Studio's work: feature releases and series on Netflix, Disney+, Amazon Prime, Sky, NBCUniversal and Mubi.

Through Describe is particularly interested in where accessibility goes next: social media, virtual reality and the new formats that don't have an access playbook yet. Think VR experiences, social media, large scale multimedia artworks, and e-zines. If your project exists in these untrodden spaces, get in touch.

Selected credits

143 productions and counting, some as a freelance describer through audio description companies. Every credit is listed below, by category.

Film (53 credits)

  • Ford Vs. Holden — Netflix, 2025. Voice.
  • State Of Statelessness — Day For Night, 2025. Script and Voice.
  • Trap House — Amazon MGM Studios, 2025. Script and Voice.
  • Mr Burton — Day For Night, 2025. Script and Voice.
  • Cottontail — Day For Night, 2024. Script and Voice.
  • I'm Charlie Johnson — Short Film, 2024. Script and Voice.
  • Hideo Kojima: Connecting Worlds — Disney+, 2024. Script and Voice.
  • Fallen Leaves — Mubi Theatrical Release, 2023. Script and Voice.
  • Crossing — Mubi Theatrical Release, 2024. Voice.
  • Snow Leopard — Day For Night, 2024. Script and Voice.
  • Don't Hate Me — Short Film, 2024. Script and Voice.
  • Dummy — Soundscribe, 2024. Script.
  • Doppelgangers3 — Documentary, 2024. Script and Voice.
  • The First Slam Dunk — Mubi Theatrical Release, 2023. Script and Voice.
  • Our River, Our Sky — Mubi Theatrical Release, 2023. Script and Voice.
  • Passages — Mubi Theatrical Release, 2023. Script and Voice.
  • Breaking Point — Sky Cinema, 2023. Voice.
  • Jekyll and Hyde — National Theatre of Scotland, 2023. Script and Voice.
  • My Everest — Documentary, 2023. Script and Voice.
  • Supercool — NBCU, 2023. Script and Voice.
  • Great White — NBCU, 2022. Script and Voice.
  • Brock — NBCU, 2022. Voice.
  • Manny — NBCU, 2022. Voice.
  • Silent Hill — NBCU, 2022. Script.
  • Goon — Amazon Prime, 2022. Script.
  • The Brothers — Amazon Prime, 2022. Script.
  • Little Kong — Film Festival, 2022. Voice.
  • Street Gang: How We Got To Sesame Street — NBCU, 2022. Script.
  • Ballad Of A White Cow — Theatrical Release, 2022. Script.
  • Walk With Angels — Documentary, 2022. Script and Voice.
  • The Kill Team — Amazon Prime, 2020. Script.
  • Blood Quantum — Amazon Prime, 2021. Script.
  • 12 Pups of Christmas — Amazon Prime, 2021. Script.
  • Year One — Amazon Prime, 2020. Script.
  • Little Fockers — Amazon Prime, 2020. Script.
  • Rush Hour 3 — Amazon Prime, 2020. Script.
  • Dracula Dead And Loving It — Amazon Prime, 2020. Script.
  • All About The Benjamins — Amazon Prime, 2020. Script.
  • Boyz N The Hood — Amazon Prime, 2020. Script.
  • Michael Jackson – This Is It — Amazon Prime, 2020. Script.
  • Battlefield Earth — Amazon Prime, 2020. Script.
  • Rock Star — Amazon Prime, 2020. Script.
  • Harold And Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay — Amazon Prime, 2020. Script.
  • Pure Country — Amazon Prime, 2020. Script.
  • Tickled — Amazon Prime, 2020. Script.
  • Justice League Dark: Apokolips War — Amazon Prime, 2020. Script.
  • Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle — Amazon Prime, 2020. Script.
  • The Shed — Amazon Prime, 2020. Script.
  • The Turkey Bowl — Amazon Prime, 2020. Script.
  • NWA & Eazy-E: Kings of Compton — Amazon Prime, 2020. Script.
  • Rambo: Last Blood — Amazon Prime, 2020. Script.
  • Guest House — Amazon Prime, 2020. Script.
  • The Courier — Amazon Prime, 2020. Script.

TV (33 credits)

  • Tokyo Revengers: Season 3 — Disney+, 2025. Script.
  • The Fable — Disney+, 2025. Script.
  • Castlevania Nocturne: Season 2 — Netflix, 2024. Script.
  • Gundam: Requiem — Netflix, 2024. Script.
  • Blood Of Zeus: Season 2 — Netflix, 2024. Script.
  • Inside Sydney Airport — Disney+, 2024. Script and Voice.
  • Escaping Twin Flames — Netflix, 2023. Script and Voice.
  • Power Rangers: Cosmic Fury — Netflix, 2023. Script.
  • Castlevania Nocturne: Season 1 — Netflix, 2023. Script.
  • Tokyo Revengers: Season 2 — Disney+, 2023. Script.
  • The Clearing — Disney+, 2023. Script and Voice.
  • Summer Time Rendering — Disney+, 2023. Script.
  • SEAL Team — Viaplay, 2023. Script.
  • Black Rock Shooter — Disney+, 2022. Script and Voice.
  • Impuros — Disney+, 2022. Script.
  • Orca Vs. Great White — Disney+, 2021. Script.
  • Airport Security Rome: Season 1 — Disney+, 2021. Script.
  • The 80's: Top Ten — Disney+, 2021. Script.
  • The Wizard Of Paws: Season 1 — Disney+, 2021. Script.
  • The Incredible Dr Pol: Season 19 — Disney+, 2021. Script.
  • Nancy Drew — Amazon Prime, 2021. Script.
  • Yellowstone — Amazon Prime, 2021. Script.
  • Monk — Amazon Prime, 2021. Script.
  • Two and a Half Men — Amazon Prime, 2021. Script.
  • Shark Attack Files — Disney+, 2021. Script.
  • When Sharks Attack — Disney+, 2021. Script.
  • Impact with Gal Gadot — Disney+, 2021. Script.
  • All American — Amazon Prime, 2021. Script.
  • Lego Guardians of the Galaxy — Amazon Prime, 2020. Script.
  • Lego Jake and the Neverland Pirates — Amazon Prime, 2020. Script.
  • Workaholics — Amazon Prime, 2020. Script.
  • MacGyver — Amazon Prime, 2020. Script.
  • Chicago PD — Amazon Prime, 2020. Script.

Theatre (30 credits)

  • Unicorn — Garrick Theatre, 2025. Script and Voice.
  • Richard II — Bridge Theatre, 2025. Script and Voice.
  • Macbeth — Globe Theatre, 2025. Script and Voice.
  • A Man For All Seasons — Marlowe Theatre, 2025. Script and Voice.
  • Jack and the Beanstalk — New Wimbledon Theatre, 2024. Script and Voice.
  • Cinderella — King's Lynn Corn Exchange, 2024. Script and Voice.
  • Oedipus — Wyndham's Theatre, 2024. Script and Voice.
  • Wolves On Road — Bush Theatre, 2024. Script and Voice.
  • Tender — Bush Theatre, 2024. Script and Voice.
  • Fear of 13 — Donmar Warehouse, 2024. Script and Voice.
  • Enemy Of The People — Duke Of York's Theatre, 2024. Script and Voice.
  • Imposter 22 — Royal Court Theatre, 2023. Script and Voice.
  • Les Miserables — Sondheim Theatre, 2023. Script and Voice.
  • Comedy of Errors — Shakespeare's Globe, 2023. Script and Voice.
  • A Little Life — Savoy Theatre, 2023. Script and Voice.
  • Sylvia — Old Vic Theatre, 2023. Script and Voice.
  • As You Like It — Sohoplace, 2023. Script and Voice.
  • Kerry Jackson — National Theatre, 2023. Voice.
  • Good — Harold Pinter Theatre, 2023. Script and Voice.
  • Jerusalem — Apollo Theatre, 2022. Script and Voice.
  • Marys Seacole — Donmar Warehouse, 2022. Script and Voice.
  • The 47th — Old Vic Theatre, 2022. Script and Voice.
  • Black Love — Kiln Theatre, 2022. Script and Voice.
  • Force Majeure — Donmar Warehouse, 2022. Script and Voice.
  • Love And Other Acts of Violence — Donmar Warehouse, 2021. Script and Voice.
  • White Noise — Bridge Theatre, 2021. Script and Voice.
  • Leopoldstadt — Wyndham's Theatre, 2021. Script and Voice.
  • Adult Children — Donmar Warehouse, 2021. Script and Voice.
  • Be More Chill — Shaftesbury Theatre, 2021. Script and Voice.
  • Romeo and Juliet — Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, 2021. Script and Voice.

Museums and Galleries (12 credits)

  • Ministry of Time Travel — National Archives, 2024. Script and Voice.
  • DHS Films — British Library, 2023. Script and Voice.
  • A New Way of Seeing — Tate Modern, 2023. Script and Voice.
  • Ciphers — Art Piece. Performing Borders, 2024. Script and Voice.
  • African Kingdoms Timeline — British Museum, 2023. Script and Voice.
  • British Library Films — British Library, 2023. Script and Voice.
  • Genetic Automata — Art Installation. Wellcome Collection, 2023. Script.
  • Izaak Walton House — Museum Film, 2023. Script and Voice.
  • Anchor, Ship and Drum — Magazine Article. Performing Borders, 2023. Script and Voice.
  • In Muva We Trust — Site Specific Installation. Club Ate, 2023. Script and Voice.
  • Tower Of London — Tour, 2023. Voice.
  • VR Experience — Liberty Festival, 2022. Editing and Voice.

Web (13 credits)

  • We Need To Talk About Death — NHS Somerset, 2024. Script and Voice.
  • Common Ground Circus — 2023. Script and Voice.
  • Tulu — Recorded Performance. New Victory Dance, 2023. Script and Voice.
  • Programme B — Recorded Performance. New Victory Dance, 2023. Script and Voice.
  • Nine Earths — Web.
  • Programme A — Recorded Performance. New Victory Dance, 2022. Script and Voice.
  • From Miner to Major
  • Dance Dosti
  • 8 Tender Solitudes
  • My Voice Was Heard
  • When I Hear Music
  • Inua Ellams: An Evening With an Immigrant
  • Monuments — Donmar Warehouse.

Commercials (2 credits)

  • Strongbow Fancy Dress — Strongbow, 2023. Script and Voice.
  • Have a Word — UK Government, 2023. Script and Voice.

Tell us about your production

Format, timeline, delivery spec, or just the idea. If you're not sure what your project needs, that's a fine place to start too.

Email: studio@throughdescribe.com

Need audio description awareness training rather than description itself? Get in touch anyway. If it's not something we can deliver, we'll point you to the right people.

You can also use the enquiry form on the main site.