SOHO HOUSE: Mr. Malcolm’s List’ boldly flips the script

In 2016, aspiring filmmaker Emma Holly Jones came across the period romantic comedy script for Mr. Malcolm’s List being performed by a diverse cast on The Black List Table Reads podcast. The episode was flagged by Black List founder Franklin Leonard, who knew Jones’s love of romcoms and period pieces (Jones and Leonard got married in June this year), and she was instantly hooked. Having recently seen Hamilton on Broadway, described by its writer Lin-Manuel Miranda as ‘the story of America then, told by America now’, Jones said she began to realise just how white-centric the British period genre was.