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| Bates, Lizzie |
Lizzie Bates writes and performs as one third of comedy sketch group The Boom Jennies. She has co-written stage shows THE BOOM JENNIES (Pleasance, Edinburgh Fringe 2009), THE BOOM JENNIES: SHINDIG (C Soco, Edinburgh Fringe 2008), CIRQUE DE SABOTAGE (...
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| Bevan-Mogg, Wendy |
Wendy started her career in film working in distribution, international sales and development. She turned to producing in 2004, and six short films later was named in Screen International as one of the ‘Stars of Tomorrow’ 2006. The following year s...
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| Borg, Giles |
Giles Borg’s feature debut, 1234, received its World Premiere at the London Film Festival in October 2008 where it screened to packed cinemas and critical acclaim. The Times called it ‘a portrait of an aspiring rock group that’s as short and sweet as...
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| Buckley-Archer, Linda |
Linda Buckley-Archer is a scriptwriter and novelist. She recently wrote a one-off television drama, ONE NIGHT IN WHITE SATIN, for BBC 1’s Brief Encounters slot. Willy Russell (Educating Rita, Blood Brothers) acted as her mentor for this project. Pr...
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| Chiappe, Gaby |
Gaby Chiappe is currently adapting Lissa Evans' Orange Prize shortlisted novel, THEIR FINEST HOUR AND A HALF, for Wildgaze Films/Number 9 Films and BBC Films. Gaby is also writing episodes of the ITV series VERA, starring Brenda Blethyn as the eponym...
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| Churchill, Polly |
Polly Churchill has written episodes of both series of WAYBULOO for Foundation/CBeebies, and is currently developing two new animation projects for Cheeky Films. Recently she has finished writing for Gamelab London on an interactive Key Stage 1 proje...
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| Clark, Ian |
Ian Clark graduated with a first from the NFTS Fiction Directing MA in 2008. His graduation film, OUTCASTS, premiered at the Edinburgh Film Festival, where he was selected as a Trailblazer. It went on to screen at festivals including San Sebastian an...
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| Collett, Peter |
For many years Peter Collett was a member of staff at the Oxford University Department of Experimental Psychology, where he taught and researched topics including body language, culture, management style, personality and television audiences. He has ...
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| Crane, Nick |
Nicholas Crane has been a full-time writer since 1979. The author of several travel books, he has also been published in the Daily Telegraph, the Sunday Times and the Guardian. In 1986 he was part of a two-man team which identified and visited for th...
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| Daydy, Mark |
Mark Daydy has written for numerous children's TV shows, including SHAUN THE SHEEP (Aardman/CBBC), THE PINKY AND PERKY SHOW (Lupus Films/CBBC), the re-launched NODDY IN TOYLAND (Chorion Silver Lining/Five), 3RD AND BIRD (Little Airplane/CBeebies), TH...
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| Emerson, Anna |
Anna Emerson writes and performs as one third of comedy sketch group The Boom Jennies. She has co-written the comedy play WE WANT ACTION (Pleasance, Edinburgh Fringe 2010), as well as the stage shows THE BOOM JENNIES (Pleasance, Edinburgh Fringe 2009...
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| Gavin, Jamila |
Jamila Gavin was born in Mussoorie, India, in the foothills of the Himalayas. With an Indian father and an English mother, she inherited two rich cultures which ran side by side throughout her life, and which always made her feel she belonged to bot...
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| Godfrey, Paul |
Paul Godfrey is a prolific screenwriter with a formidable track record in theatre. He has worked for such distinguished companies as the Royal National Theatre, the Royal Court Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal Opera and the Royal Exc...
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| Graham, Kas |
Kas Graham is currently writing BREAK NECK, an original feature film commissioned by Working Title Films. His feature script, MY FATHER BATTLES WHALES, has Polish director Lukasz Karwowski (LISTOPAD), DOP Pawel Edelman (THE PIANIST, RAY), and product...
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| Green, Chris |
Since coming runner up in the RED Productions/CH4 Northern Soul new writers competition, Chris Green has been commissioned to write scripts for CH4, BBC3 and SKY1. His first feature as writer/producer, DESPERATE MEASURES, starring Ricci Harnett and S...
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| Griffin, Camille |
Camille Griffin has three feature projects currently in development as Writer Director – LOVING LIES, a psychological thriller, VAGUE DE CHALEUR (HEATWAVE) a France set thriller, with UK producers Alexandra Stone of CMP Productions and Madonna Baptis...
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| Harris, Gerard |
Gerard Harris has written episodes of the children's animated series, SCRAGG AND BONES for Annix Studios, and is currently writing episodes of MUDDLE EARTH for CBBC and CHUGGINGTON for Ludorum. His comedy credits include THE 11 O’CLOCK SHOW, Jimmy Ca...
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| Harwood, Victoria |
Victoria Harwood graduated in directing from the National Film School with THE VISITOR, which competed in several international film festivals and was featured in Campaign Screen. She has written and directed several other shorts including PRESERVE,...
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| Hawkins, Sally |
Sally Hawkins has written and performed a number of pieces of her work, including a monologue entitled GIRL ON TUBE at Trafalgar Studios. With Catherine Shepherd, Sally wrote and performed a two-hander, JANE AND FERN, at the Soho Theatre, and she als...
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| Hodson, Paul |
Paul Hodson has written and directed for theatre for over twenty years, as well as writing over a hundred episodes of television drama. He has a television series entitled KARISMA in development with Kudos and another series, NO DAYS OFF, in developm...
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| Hurst, Bridget |
Bridget Hurst won a BAFTA award for Best Children’s Writer for her work on the award-winning animation series, CHARLIE AND LOLA. She has written numerous episodes of this series, adapted from the books of Lauren Child for Tiger Aspect Productions. Br...
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| Jackson, Mick |
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Mick Jackson is an award-winning author, screenwriter and director of short films.
Mick is currently adapting his debut novel, THE UNDERGROUND MAN (shortlisted for the 1997 Booker Prize and Whitbread First Novel Prize, and winner of the Royal ...
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| Jinks, Peter |
Peter Jinks, a journalist turned author and screenwriter, was born in 1970. His newspaper reporting for The Scotsman won him the UK Young Journalist of the Year Award in 1995 and he has published two novels, HALLAM FOE (2001) and INTUITION (2003). HA...
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| Kelly, Richard T |
Richard T Kelly has adapted the novel by Russell Celyn Jones, TEN SECONDS FROM THE SUN, for BBC Films, and is writing an original feature script, LUCIE GUNN, under the UK Film Council's First Feature Film Development Programme. His feature script, CU...
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| Kilgour, Ewan |
Ewan Kilgour’s first screenplay, FEET UP, won the Pathe/Orange Prize for Screenwriting and the Pathe Production Prize. Ewan was recently chosen to write an original drama, entitled DIE, for the Channel 4Talent Scotland PILOT scheme, in association wi...
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| Kingfisher, Rupert |
Rupert Kingfisher was brought up in Oxfordshire. He studied Philosophy at Bristol University and has an MA in Playwriting from the Central School of Speech and Drama. His first children’s book, MADAME PAMPLEMOUSSE AND HER INCREDIBLE EDIBLES was publi...
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| Litten, Russ |
Russ Litten started his scriptwriting career in commercial radio, writing over a thousand spots for various stations and winning a host of major international awards including The Mobius and London International Advertising Awards. As well as commerc...
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| Littlefield, Simon |
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Simon Littlefield has written extensively for radio and TV. He is one of the main writers on THE NEWS QUIZ (BBC Radio 4).
For Radio 4's Afternoon Play, Simon wrote an original comedy-drama, STANNIE AND JIM, starring Andrew Scott and Aidan McArdl...
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| Martin, Mick |
Mick Martin is currently adapting his play, ONCE UPON A TIME IN WIGAN, for the big screen. Billy Elliot producer Jon Finn has commissioned the script, and Marc Evans will direct. Mick is also developing another feature film, MUMS' ARMY, with producer...
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| Mayhew, Julie |
Julie originally trained and worked as an actress, and co-wrote two stage plays with her comedy partner Josephine Teale. RECRUITMENT STARS played to critical acclaim at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and transferred to London’s Kings Head Theatre. The...
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| O'Malley, Deborah |
After reading English at Cambridge, Debbie O’Malley worked as an actor for five years with spells as a freelance reader for a variety of theatre and television companies, including Paines Plough and Carlton. She then worked as a script editor for Uni...
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| Page, Jan |
Through her production company, Adastra, Jan Page has worked on a number of series: writing episodes and script editing GUESS WITH JESS for Entertainment Rights, and writing episodes of FIREMAN SAM for Hit Entertainment, THE MAGIC ROUNDABOUT for Silv...
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| Perrin, Alexander |
Alex Perrin is currently developing two original projects with Kindle: a serial called TERRA, and another project, COSTA, which he is co-writing with Gaby Chiappe. For a younger audience, he also wrote and script-edited numerous episodes of Kindle’s ...
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| Pitts, Tony |
Tony Pitts is a highly successful comedy writer and producer. Tony collaborated with Johnny Vegas on the Radio 4 comedy series NIGHT CLASS which was nominated in the North West Comedy Awards for ‘Best Comedy Content’ and ‘Best Comedic Writer’, and wo...
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| Poles, George |
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George Poles is a writer, dramatist and script editor who was worked on a plethora of award-winning projects across TV, radio, the internet and in video games.
A former barrister and advocacy teacher, George began writing in radio, starting out...
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| Rhodes, Dan |
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Dan Rhodes is the author of two collections of stories and four novels. He has won a number of prizes, among them the 2010 E.M. Forster Award.
His novel THE LITTLE WHITE CAR (published under the name Danuta de Rhodes) has been adapted for the s...
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| Rhodes, Neil |
Neil Rhodes is a playwright and novelist. He has written plays for radio and stage, including large scale community plays, novels for adults and young adults, and local history books. Most notoriously, he published Brian Piddock’s ‘How to write a how...
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| Roberts, Maria |
Maria Roberts is a freelance journalist, blogger and screenwriter. She read English and Spanish at the University of Manchester and later studied for an MA in novel writing at MMU. Her first book, SINGLE MOTHER ON THE VERGE, based on her blog of the ...
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| Ronson, Jon |
Jon Ronson is a writer and television and radio presenter. His column in The Guardian, ‘The Human Zoo’, ran successfully for many years. He has written and presented a number of television documentaries on subjects ranging from the Rev. Ian Paisley t...
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| Scott, Kate |
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Kate Scott received a distinction on completing an MLitt in Creative Writing from St Andrews University.
She has written for BIG AND SMALL (Kindle Entertainment), CHUGGINGTON (Ludorum) and THE HIVE (Lupus Films).
She is a published poet ...
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| Sefton, Dan |
Dan Sefton is currently working on a number of projects with ITV Studios: two original series, CARE and TRUE NORTH, as well as a medical drama developed with a team of writers, based on his original idea, which he will also exec produce. With Clerken...
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| Shapero, Lindsay |
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Lindsay Shapero was selected for Broadcast’s 2010 industry top 100, one of only 14 writers to make the list.
Her drama, ENID, which was produced by Carnival/BBC4, won the Broadcasting Press Guild TV Awards for best single drama, and lead actr...
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| Stanford, Peter |
Peter Stanford is a journalist and broadcaster who writes and reviews regularly in the Guardian, the Sunday Times and the Independent on Sunday. A former editor of The Catholic Herald, he co-presented the Channel 4 series that accompanied his book CA...
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| Starling, Boris |
Boris Starling has worked as a reporter on The Sun and The Daily Telegraph, and most recently, for a company which specialises in kidnap negotiation, confidential investigations and political risk analysis. His first novel, MESSIAH, wa...
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| Stewart, Leslie |
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Leslie Stewart is currently developing an original TV drama, CANADA PARK, for Picture Palace, and THE ARK, an original series, with Ecosse. With Dan Sefton, he also developed another original series for Ecosse, DEADTOWN.
His original series, L...
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| Strong, Tony |
Tony Strong began his career as an advertising copywriter at Ogilvy and Mather, an agency which had already bred writers such as Salman Rushdie and Fay Weldon. He has made more than thirty television commercials, including the celebrated BUPA 'You’re...
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| Topham, James |
After studying English at Cambridge University, James Topham worked as a theatre director, and freelance writer. He has won the Marlowe Society / Royal Shakespeare Company ‘Other’ Prize, and was a semi-finalist in the Old Vic New Voices 24 Hour Plays...
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| Walker, Michael A |
Starting his career at the BBC, working on award winning dramas and documentaries, Michael has gone on to write shorts, television and features with produced work invited for selection at the British BAFTA Awards, nominated for the Directors Guild, B...
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