Joseph is an award-winning writer and actor. He is an alumni of the Soho Writers’ Lab, Soho Writers’ Alumni Group, and LAMDA.
Will and Andy have written “An Odd Job” for Radio 4. They have also developed a 6 part comedy series called “Shit Or Bust” with Baby Cow, a comedy drama called “Cornerstone” with Red Productions and a comedy series called “Road To Rio” with Baby Cow. Most recently, their comedy drama, “Here After”, was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2014. They are currently developing a new sitcom “Nowhere Fast” and “Manning” with Red Productions.
Perrie Balthazar is co-creator/executive producer/writer of RTS award-winning Phoenix Rise(bbc iplayer/bbc studios) a coming of age drama based in the West Midlands that launched in 2023. Series 3 and 4 will be aired in 2024.
Simon Beaufoy started his writing career with the screenplay for THE FULL MONTY – returning to it fifteen years later first for a stage adaptation that was nominated for an Olivier Award and now for a television series based on the same characters.
Ben is currently writing a black comedy-drama, MY LIFE IN ANALYSIS with Ecosse, has a three-part thriller, THE SCREENS in development at Leopard Films, and has a second thriller, THE PACT at ITV studios.
Jeremy Brock is an English screenwriter and director. His career began in 1985 with the play In Times Like These, starring Greta Scacchi and Tim Woodward, which premiered at the Bristol Old Vic. He also adapted Dickens’ Oliver Twist into a play, directed by Phyllida Lloyd at the Bristol Old Vic in 1990.
Sean is a BAFTA nominated and Emmy Award winning writer for television, film and theatre.
Oliver Chris is a London-based actor and writer whose work encompasses stage, television, and film. He has most recently finished filming a series regular role in television series RIVALS for Disney+ and can currently seen playing FREDDIE in Terence Rattigan’s THE DEEP BLUE SEA alongside Tamsyn Greig at Theatre Royal Bath.
Suzette is a writer and theatre maker. She is currently developing A Jewish Love Story, a play about three generations of Jewish women in England, with support from Arts Council England and Watford Palace Theatre.
Celine is an award-winning British-Lebanese writer and director, with a focus on genre bending stories in Film and TV. Her previous work has been supported by Sky, the BFI, Doha Film Institute, Trademark Films and Goldfinch: First Flights.
Claire, Stuart and Ian – or CSI, as they are affectionately and collectively known – have been screen writing together since 2010.
Jeremy wrote GRAND THEFT PARSONS for MGM/UA, BATTLEFIELD 2: MODERN COMBAT for EA and BAD SANTAS for Channel 4. His real-time feature IN THE LINE OF DUTY was released in early 2020 and he is developing CONSTABLE & TOOP for Sky and THE OUT for Sprout Productions.
Clare is a writer for stage, radio, television and is increasingly working in new story telling platforms such as digital games and virtual reality.
Christine is a writer, actor and director. She is currently developing her comedy drama CARNAGE at The Writers Lab with her mentor Pamela Adlon. She is also currently commissioned to write two new plays for by Hampstead Theatre and BBC Radio 4.
Sue has been working on SILENT WITNESS, with the 2 x 1hr episodes for her story ‘Bad Love’ now in production, to air as part of series 24 in 2021.
Megan Everett-Skarsgård is an American screenwriter and children’s book author based in
Stockholm, Sweden.
Robert’s play THE BIG I AM – a re-imagining of Ibsen’s ‘Peer Gynt’ was the last production of the Liverpool Everyman’s 2018 award-winning Rep season.
Tom has recently completed work on FOOL ME ONCE for Netflix and Quay Street Productions. This gripping thriller is based on the mega-selling novel by Harlan Coben. Also currently in production is BLACKSHORE, a new police detective series for BBC / RTE for which Tom wrote the finale episode.
Brian has several projects in development. He is currently script-writing with Toby Whithouse on a detective series with a familiar flavour, based on an 80s old school classic. He is also developing a drama series tackling climate change with Blacklight TV, and ‘You Canceled Me’ – a four part thriller serial set in the world of social media moderators.
Acknowledged to be one of the greatest adapters for television, Arthur is best remembered for his adaptations of HARD TIMES; TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY; BLEAK HOUSE; A TALE OF TWO CITIES and A PERFECT SPY.
John has a number of projects in development ranging from contemporary immigration thriller THE ILLEGAL to dance drama THE PRO, screwball caper RICE IS NICE and martial arts vigilante show KING COBRA.
Jemima Khan is a British screenwriter and independent TV, film and documentary producer and founder of Instinct Productions.
Kasia’s debut feature film FLYING BLIND premiered at the 2012 Edinburgh International Film Festival where was nominated for the prestigious Michael Powell Award. The film received three Awards (Grand Prix, Best Director, Critics Award) at the Polish Festival of First Films in Koszalin. FLYING BLIND was released cinematically in the UK and in Poland in 2013.
Francis wrote and directed the hugely successful debut feature film God’s Own Country. Francis’ second feature film, Ammonite, starring Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan, funded by BBC Films and BFI, was selected in Official Competition at Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival and premiered at Toronto International Film Festival before its worldwide release to critical acclaim.
Gareth’s series, SPY WARS, an eight part TV documentary for The History Channel, was broadcast in October 2019, and on the Smithsonian Channel in the USA in March, 2020.
Catherine first feature NUCLEAR, a supernatural thriller which she directed and which was co-written by David-John Newman premiered at the Warsaw Film Festival 2019. The film is financed by Ffilm Cymru Wales and BFI and stars Emilia Jones, George Mackay and Sienna Guillory.
In 2016, Liz’s play THON MAN MOLIERE was directed by Tony Cownie at The Royal Lyceum Edinburgh and in 2015, WHAT GOES AROUND made its way around Scotland’s theatres. She held the prestigious post of Scots Makar from 2011-16, which took her around the world.
Rae Mainwaring is a writer and theatre maker from Birmingham. She lives with a Chronic illness and identifies as a disabled artist.
One of ten writers chosen for BBC Pilot 2023, Izzy has drama and comedy series in development with various production companies. Her relationship thriller LYCHEE, under option with Genial Productions, was developed with ITV Studios America, and script edited by Jeremy Dyson. Her 1990s-set drama series THE MIRAGE is under option with Various Artists Limited, and she developed supernatural drama INVISIBLE with Company Pictures under the BBC Drama Pilot Scheme. She is currently working on her musical feature film A PLACE FOR US under the mentorship of Peter Straughan.
Martin is an award winning writer/director. His latest film, The Banshees of Inisherin, was released in October 2022.
Gez Mercer is a self-taught musician, dancer, and natural-born punk who has carved his own unique path in musical theatre and the arts, evolving into a multi-talented artist with a focus on the intersections of pop culture, social issues, politics and the empowering essence of being an outsider.
Novelist and screenwriter, Andrea Newman changed the face of British television in the seventies with her steamy television serial A BOUQUET OF BARBED WIRE.
Andrea was born in Milan and raised in London, where he currently lives and works as a writer and director. His favourite films to watch and make are psychological horrors, dark comedies and anything outlandish or bizarre.
Carol Noble has just devised and written a four-part crime thriller vis Quad for TF1 in France and ZDF in Germany called THE PERFECT MOTHER [airing in 2020].
Simon Nye has two TV drama series in production – FINDING ALICE (co- written with Roger Goldby) starring Keeley Hawes, and THE LARKINS: DARLING BUDS OF MAY, both for ITV.
Owen O’Neill is an award winning writer, actor and director. Theatre writing includes: Sixteen one-man stage shows. Two stage plays. Shaving the Dead and Absolution and an adaptation of the Shawshank Redemption which did a number 1 tour of the UK produced by Bill Kenwright and has been sold to Broadway Licensing for production across North America and Canada.
Barunka is a writer for stage, film, TV and radio.
Mike Packer is a Dramatist who has written several critically acclaimed plays, among them Cardboys, Carpet Pony Monkey, tHe dYsFUnCKshOnalZ!, and “Inheritance”.
Ol Parker most recently wrote and directed MAMMA MIA! HERE WE GO AGAIN starring Lily James, Cher and the original cast of MAMMA MIA!.
Morna Pearson is an Elgin-born Edinburgh-based playwright and screenwriter. She has been a recipient of the Channel 4 Playwright Scheme, the Catherine Johnson Best Play Award, and the Meyer- Whitworth Award. Her first short film, I WAS HERE, gained BAFTA Scotland and EIFF nominations for Best Short Film.
Lucy Prebble is a writer for film, television, games and theatre. She was an Executive Producer and writer on the BAFTA, GOLDEN GLOBE and EMMY award-winning HBO drama SUCCESSION, for which she has also won a WGA and a PGA Award.
Stephen’s film TORMENTED, a classic tale of undead revenge, was produced by Slingshot, BBC Films and Pathe, and was released to great reviews:
Rebecca is a brilliant journalist and novelist, who is developing a TV project with Caryn Mandabach Productions about female friendship and influencer culture.
Philip Ridley was born and brought up in the East End of London. HIs first stage play, The Pitchfork Disney, changed the course of British Drama and is now published as a Modern Classic. One of his most recent plays, The Poltergeist, won the Off West End OnComm Award for Best Live Streamed Play.
A Humanities and Golden Globe recipient, Sally was honoured by PEN USA for her work on the Emmy nominated “Iron Jawed Angels.”
MARTIN SADOFSKI was born in Bradford from an Eastern European Jewish background. He studied English and Theatre at Manchester University and was lead singer in the indie band “The Passmore Sisters” Recording three Radio One sessions.
Lisa is recipient of the NEA/TCG Playwrights Residency Award and winner of the BBC International Playwriting Award and a finalist for a United States Artists Fellowship.
Donna Sharpe is a writer / creator. Her critically acclaimed work has been shown by the BBC, HBO MAX, C4 Walter Presents, Arte, ZDF,Viaplay, DR, SVT, Netflix and AMC.
Trevor is best known for A ROYAL NIGHT OUT (Ecosse Films / Lionsgate). He is currently developing a musical adaptation of ARNO for Katy Lipson at Aria Entertainment.
Richard Smith is a Scottish BAFTA award-winning screenwriter. His most recent feature, the Asian-set GARDEN OF EVENING MISTS, was adapted for HBO from the booker-nominated novel by Tan Twan Eng. It was nominated for Best Screenplay at the 2019 Golden Horse Awards (‘the Chinese Oscars’), among others.
Ali’s plays include CATHY (Cardboard Citizens), GOTH WEEKEND (SJT, Live Theatre), UNDER MY SKIN (Pegasus Theatre), FAULT LINES (Hampstead Theatre), OVERSPILL (Soho Theatre, Churchill Theatre Bromley) and COTTON WOOL (Theatre503).
Ed is a playwright,director and producer whose award winning work has been widely distributed to over 100 countries.
Robert is the creator of DEATH IN PARADISE for BBC One, which is currently in its twelfth series. Episodes regularly attract audiences of over 8 million in the UK, and it’s been sold to most territories around the world.
Since 2019, Daniel has been one of the core writers of the BBC’s iconic radio drama The Archers. To date, he has written over one hundred episodes.
Matthew Todd is a multi award winning writer and sometime performer, and was editor of the UK’s best selling gay magazine, Attitude, for 8 years, where he interviewed countless celebrities including Madonna, Elton John and Lady Gaga and was responsible for Prince William’s first gay press appearance.
Theo is a neurodiverse, internationally produced, multi-award nominated writer for stage, screen, and radio. He is a BAFTA Connect member, and an Alumnus of the BBC Writersroom Drama Room, and the Minack Emerging Playwright Programme. He also acts when he has to.
Paul Viragh is an actor, writer and director born in London to a Hungarian refugee family. He is a UK/Canadian dual national & WGA member.
Naomi Wallace’s plays have been produced in the United Kingdom, the United States, Europe and the Middle East and include One Flea Spare, The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek, In the Heart of America, Slaughter City, Things of Dry Hours, The Fever Chart: Three Vision of the Middle East, And I and Silence, The Liquid Plain, Night is a Room and an adaptation of Returning to Haifa by Ghassan Kanafani and The Corpse Washer by Sinan Antoon (both adaptations co-written with Ismail Khalidi).