A new feature on the new website – a library of some of the screenplays I have most enjoyed reading over the last few years. I hope you will enjoy these – for the most part so far unproduced – scripts as much as I did.
The purpose of this script library is primarily to educate and inspire – to illustrate how dramatic writing can work at its best, to inspire your own writing and to give you some examples of brilliant screenwriting – whether that’s about story, character, dialogue – or even just more fundamental but important aspects of how best to present your screenplay on the page.
I must stress – these screenplays are here for you to read and enjoy – but it is illegal to copy and distribute these scripts. If you have any further interest in any of these scripts or would like to know more, please e-mail me.
I will be regularly adding to this script database so please keep checking back for new additions. Enjoy!
Please note that all scripts included here are fully protected by copyright.
All scripts are available only for private, personal use and not for any other form of wider distribution.
Any enquiries concerning the rights for professional or amateur stage production, broadcasting, readings etc should be made to philip.shelley@script-consultant.co.uk who can put you in touch with the writers/literary agents concerned.
Scripts reflect the time at which they were written and may include language, content or characters which you find offensive.
See-Saw – ANINA GROSTERN
Four Seasons – CARLY MILLS
Griefcase – KATIE BUTLER
Next of Kin – CHARLIE MAGNESS
Rat Kings – INDIGO HINTON
The Children – ALED ROBERTS
Deeper Shade of Blue – TORY FROST
Cuffed – NICOLE DOUGLAS-MORRIS
Big Time – STACY EVANS
Girls in Therapy – YAZMIN JOY VIGUS
Dreamers – GEMMA BRANDLER
The Ballymuck Tumblers – PADDY CAMPBELL
Boomerangs – SONYA DESAI
The Davieses – PHIL HAMER
I, Maurice – BRIAN LYNCH
Prepped – BRIAN LYNCH
Laurie & George – REGINA MORIARTY
The Women In My Office – CHLOE MYERSON
Life According To Me – LAURENCE TRATALOS
Dan After Life – ADAM USDEN
Tinder Box – ASHLEIGH WEIR
Hot Flush – MOLLY McGUINNESS
Bad Things – RACHEL CLARK
Hail to the King – DANNY MORAN
War Paint – CLAIRE ROWLANDS
The Method – RORY PLATT
Cooked – JAMIE STAGG
Village – REBECCA BREWER
Dirt – LIBERTY MOSSE
Under The Bridge – NEEVON KHAYATI-DARYAN
Saint Jude’s – VANESSA HEHIR
Logan’s Third Law – PAUL PRESTON
Preconception – KATHERINE MIDDLETON
Llwyn Cadno – MARED SWAIN
The Reappearance – PAUL J. KENNEDY
Playing with Fire – APPHIA CAMPBELL
Very Bad Things – CARYS THOMAS
Family Man – MATTHEW BARDSLEY
Reciprocal – ED CONNOLE
The Living Dead – ED CONNOLE
Chosen – DAVE FLOREZ
The Next World – ADAM GARD
Bhai – ALI ZAIDI
The Cell – WILLIAM MUIR
Mercy – IBRAHIM SALAWU
Jailtown – CAT JONES
Fundum Hall – SAM HOARE
Losgadh – TOM MAIR
Everybody Hates Rosemary – ASHLEY KING
Missing Chapters – SONYA DESAI
His Own Devices – PHIL HAMER
An Austrian Holiday – ANN HAWKER
The Auctioneer – JAMES HEY
Bad Manners – JAMES HODSON
Tuff 2 Luv – REGINA MORIARTY
Diminuendo – NATHANIEL PRICE
Gift – CATHERINE MILNE
Streakers – MATTHEW BROUGHTON
-31 – LILY LOVELESS
The Water Flea – FELIX LEVINSON
Kettling – FELIX LEVINSON
Sea Change – EMILY WHITE
TABS – ELLIE KENDRICK
Diminished – SAM HOARE
English – MELANIE SPENCER
Once upon a Time in West London – JAMES FRITZ
Dead on Sea – CLARE PLESTED
Duplicity – RACHEL EVANS
Soon Come – JAHVEL HALL
The VHS Diaries – PAUL BEESON
The Russians are coming – JAKE MACKINTOSH
Gunpowder Valley – ALEX MJ SMITH
Cartel Hunter – YAZMIN JOY VIGUS
Yours Sincerely, Joshua – ANNA MANSELL
Green and Pleasant – ANDY TWYMAN
Third Culture Kid – GEORGIA NELSON
Poisoned Land – Miles SLOMAN
TRIBUTE – 8 Dramatic Monologues:
When a self-obsessed career woman gets ‘cancelled’ and loses everything, she pursues a new but unlikely purpose – motherhood. But, an uphill battle awaits for this child-hating 41-year-old.
Bio: Anina is an emerging writer who loves exploring the ugliest parts of ourselves with equal amounts of silliness and heart. She is currently undertaking a TV writing diploma at UCLA’s Film & TV School and was recently longlisted for the TV Foundation’s New Writers Collective.
17 year old Grace has begrudgingly taken her first part time job in a local pizza takeaway in her tiny seaside hometown of Millisle, Northern Ireland. Despite her reservations about her unpredictable coworkers, she soon realises the best way through a shift is by working as a team. Now, she just needs to learn how.
Bio: Carly Mills is a writer from Northern Ireland, with a passion for TV comedy. She was part of Northern Ireland Screen’s New Writers Focus Programme in 2020/2021, has two short films in various stages of production, and is a 2024 4Screenwriting Mentee.
A young woman grapples with grief and guilt following her best friend’s suicide, and in trying to atone for her perceived failings, ends up getting dragged into something even more sinister.
Bio: Katie’s background is in writing book, music and lyrics for musical theatre, with shows optioned by RJG Productions and Lambert Jackson Productions. In 2023 she turned her hand to screenwriting, and was shortlisted for the Funny Women Comedy Writing Competition.
Bridget’s perfect, orderly life is thrown into chaos when she becomes reluctant carer to her wayward, divorced parents.
Bio: Charlie (she/her) is a new writer from Cardiff with a passion for finding the comedy in life’s difficult moments. Charlie is currently seeking screenwriting representation.
Amidst the power struggles of a fractured pest control empire, the Crawley family must navigate betrayals and alliances to save London from a super rat invasion.
Bio: Indigo is a screenwriter from Glastonbury, his scripts have won competitions such as The PAGE International Screenwriting Awards (2021) and he was a mentee as part of the Channel 4 Screenwriting course (2024). He is currently developing comedy and comedy-drama projects for both film and television.
A dark comedy set in London. An ornery and forgotten children’s writer must do the unthinkable to avoid penury: ghostwrite a celebrity children’s book for a reality TV star.
Bio: Aled Roberts was born in Wales and writes for film, TV and theatre. He currently teaches medieval literature, oddly, in New York.
When her best mate dies, Ronnie is left juggling her ulcer-inducing job, needy boomer parents, custody of SARAH’S one-year-old son and the mystery of who fathered him. A story about how in tragedy, women cope, because they don’t have time to collapse.
Bio: Tory is a new (but not young) screenwriter from the North East. A journalist and magazine editor for 15 years she has written for The Guardian, the Telegraph, Red Magazine, Health & Beauty and The Pool. She was shortlisted for 4Screenwriting 2024 and is a quarter-finalist in the Female Pilot Club 2024 Script Call.
A dark comedy set in Bristol. Grief sends young Latina mum, Ray, to the most unexpected of places: polyamory.
Bio: Nicole is a British-Venezuelan writer, actress and mother of two. Her spec script recently made it into the top 20% of submissions to the TV Foundation New Writers Collective 2024. She’s currently seeking literary representation.
Judy and Tilly, two deeply unsuccessful actors, band together to seek revenge on those who have wronged them in this Intergenerational comedy about failure and unexpected friendship.
Bio: Stacey is an actor, writer and comedian from Manchester. She has written and produced her own comedy sketches as well as developing projects for TV and film and was shortlisted for the Funny Women Writing Award 2020. Her debut solo show as writer/performer, Hanging Around, is being produced by The Pleasance London in 2023 as part their new writing season.
A suicidal out-of-work playwright’s failed attempt to kill herself leads her to her biggest fight for survival yet: group therapy.
Bio: Yazmin’s an emerging writer and director. Her passion is telling intimate, emotionally complex, (primarily but not exclusively) female-led stories, that make you giggle, punches you in the gut and then makes you cry.
A romantic comedy exploring the differences between expectations and reality, set against the backdrop of medical trials carried out in a sleep clinic.
Bio: Gemma Brandler has an original series in development with a global SVoD, has written on two greenlit series, and has been shortlisted for 4Screenwriting, the C21 Drama Awards, and Channel 4’s Random Acts, as well as nominated for Best New Script at Edinburgh TV Festival’s New Voice Awards.
A darkly comic drama set in South Armagh in the early 1990s.
Bio: Paddy is a Northern Irish writer currently developing original projects for TV and film. For enquiries please contact Kara Fitzpatrick – kara@dbltd.co.uk
TV comedy drama pilot about a group of 40-somethings who go boomeranging back to their flat-sharing days.
Bio: Sonya is an alumna of the Channel 4 screenwriting course. She has developed projects with Cosmopolitan Pictures, Hat Trick & Bryncoed Productions and has worked in various writers rooms including The Secret Lives of the Amir Sisters and Delicious. She is represented by Tanya Tillett at The Agency.
Animated comedy pilot, middle-age descends on Ieuan and Morfydd Davies as they attempt to sustain their marriage, identities and unconventional family.
Bio: Phil is a new screenwriter from South Wales, focusing on comedy drama. “I like to explore how local communities become a lifeline to those suffering loss of identity and economic hardship in areas forgotten by Government”.
A group of survivalists prepare for the collapse of civilisation. And they’re right – disaster is coming, just not in the way they expect.
Bio: Brian Lynch has written for film and TV across multiple genres including drama, comedy, kids. He is co-founder of the digital publisher, Inkubator Books.
A mild-mannered man has a near-death experience and is reborn with the soul of Julius Caesar.
A life crisis forces Laurie to go to extreme lengths to find funding for her gifted son’s education.
Bio: Regina Moriarty is a graduate of the NFTS MA screenwriting course. She was on the 2013 C4 screenwriting course and was selected for C4’s Coming Up strand resulting in her first broadcast credit, half-hour drama ‘Sammy’s War’. In 2014 factual drama Murdered by My Boyfriend f(BBC3/BBC1) was awarded Best Single Drama by the RTS and nominated for a BAFTA in the same category. Current projects include an original six part TV drama The Light in the Hall (Channel 4, S4C, Sundance Channel) in production, and development projects with Potboiler Films and director Gurinder Chadha; VAL-TV and Hartswood Productions. Regina is represented by Mark Casarotto at Casarotto Ramsay.
Five very different women working in South London’s most boring admin office are thrown into chaos when a series of pranks and coincidences leads to an unexplained death and a bag of cash to hide.
Bio: Chloë is a TV and theatre writer represented by The Agency. She has developed shows for Wall to Wall, Hat Trick, Roughcut TV and Caryn Mandabach Productions. She is also the co-founder of Monkhead Film & Theatre.
After lying about having cancer to avoid bullies, a teenage girl finds herself in the spotlight, and as the lies add up and the school throws their support behind her, how long will it be before someone finds out the truth?
Bio: Laurence Tratalos was one of the winners of the BBC Writersroom ‘Comedy Room’ competition in 2016 and was selected for the mentee scheme as part of the Channel 4 Screenwriting course in 2020. He is developing projects for film and TV, and has recently written two shorts that have been selected for BAFTA qualifying festivals. He is represented by Independent Talent.
When Dan dies and gets to heaven, he is shocked to discover his late father isn’t there. And so with the help of his teenage weed dealer, he sets out to find out why…
Bio: Adam Usden is an award-winning writer for TV and radio. He was Lead Writer on young teen drama series ZERO CHILL (Lime/Netflix) and is currently writing the finale of WOLFE S2 (Abbotvision/Sky).
Peggy, a twenty-something sex toy seller is diagnosed with premature menopause and is forced to move in with her young at heart, pregnant mother
Bio: Molly McGuinness is a working-class writer and comedian from Salford. She was part of the 4Screenwriting scheme in 2020 along with the BBC comedy room 20/21. She was also in the BBC new comedy awards 2021. Her script HOT FLUSH is currently optioned with Warp Films.
The lives of two women on opposite ends of the moral spectrum become intertwined when they accidentally kill a man and decide to cover it up.
Bio: Rachel is a drama and comedy writer. Her projects have won Best New Drama in the All3Media New Voice Awards and Best Pilot in the Screenwriter’s Network TV Awards, been shortlisted for the Channel 4 Screenwriting Course and selected for the Female Pilot Club mentoring scheme. She is represented by Julia Mills at Berlin Associates.
Comedy about a once great chess player attempting to relaunch her career with the help of her estranged brother.
Bio: Danny is a script editor and writer with a keen interest in TV comedy. He is also a mentee on the Channel 4 screenwriting course 2022 shadow scheme.
13-year-old Michael loves makeup, country music and his mum. When she falls seriously ill he’s forced to meet and move in with his narcissistic, D-list celebrity father.
Bio: Claire Rowlands is a writer from Birmingham. She gained a place on the Channel 4 Screenwriting mentorship scheme in 2021 and again in 2022.
When a one night stand ends in tragedy, a young man with OCD agrees to attend a remote mental health facility and undergo an experimental treatment known only as ‘The Method’…
A TV psychological thriller pilot episode.
Bio: Rory is a playwright and screenwriter living in Manchester. He took part in BBC Northern Voices in 2022 and is currently being mentored as part of the Channel 4 Screenwriting Programme in 2024.
An aspiring chef in London struggles to not self-destruct under the weight of balancing his lofty career goals, friendships and strained familial past.
Bio: Jamie is a Welsh writer who grew up in France. He balances his career between developing his writing projects alongside becoming an emerging TV and Film editor.
Near-fi, folk horror pilot about a couple who move into a new build estate just before their first baby is due.
Bio: Rebecca is an actor, writer and theatre maker working across TV, film, plays and musical theatre.
The (almost) true story of a secret, obsessional, fetishistic love affair between a scullion and a barrister in Victorian England. Loosely based on the real diaries of Hannah Cullwick and Arthur Munby.
Bio: Liberty is a writer, painter and mother with a background working in mental health services. Cognitive dissonance is at the heart of Liberty’s work, whatever the genre. She explores how people behave when social, psychological and political realities mean that the ideal self and lived reality do not match up. Her stories are motored by characters trying to resolve this emotional discomfort to funny, heart-wrenching or dramatic effect.
A political thriller about an Iranian illegal immigrant who agrees to spy on his friend for MI6, in exchange for securing his daughter British citizenship.
Bio: Neevon Khayati-Daryan is a British/Iranian screenwriter. He was a finalist in ITV’s Original Voices scheme in 2019 and was shortlisted for Channel 4’s 4screenwriting competition in 2024. He currently works as a Storyliner for ITV’s Coronation Street, while continuing to work on his own script projects for TV and film.
This haunting psychological drama unravels a young family’s turmoil caused by a violent, cheating husband, unearthing more skeletons and ghosts than anyone could imagine.
Bio: Vanessa is a British-Irish screenwriter, an award-winning filmmaker, and an RTS-nominated actor. In 2021, she was chosen for 4Screenwriting’s inaugural mentorship scheme with her comedy pilot Unlucky, a rom-com about a woman who falls in love with a six-foot-tall, wish-granting leprechaun. Unlucky has recently been optioned by Sister Pictures.
A 12-year-old boy is caught between his unbalanced mother and the criminal father she is trying to take him from.
Bio: After graduating from the University of York with an MA in Filmmaking, Paul wrote and directed the ASFF selected short film Now You Know. He then went on to write and direct his BFI Network-funded short film Dirt, which was selected for the BAFTA and Oscar-qualifying LA Shorts Film Festival.
Paul is currently seeking screenwriting representation and has several feature and tv pilot spec scripts to showcase his talent.
Hari is recently divorced, a brilliant doctor, and an absolute mess of a human being. Never having felt secure in any standard life plan, a series of patient encounters lead her to an epiphany – she wants to become a Single Mother By Choice.
Bio: Kath is an ex-medical doctor from South Wales now working as a product director in digital mental health. She has been shortlisted for the Rocliffe Comedy Writing award, completed the NFTS pilot writing course in 2022 and is among the mentee cohort of the channel 4 screenwriting program for 2023. She loves writing dark comedy that alternates between dry humour and high emotion.
A mother on the edge, walks out of her front door, leaving her screaming children behind. Her desperate attempt for peace turns into a nightmare as she finds herself lost, unsure how to return home.
Bio: Mared is a writer-director based in Cardiff. She recently co-created a 6 part TV drama series called Bregus (Fragile) for S4C and is currently supported by Ffilm Cymru Wales developing her first feature film script. She was selected as part of this year’s BFI Network @LFF and has various TV and Film projects in development.
In 1970’s Belfast, Rose’s husband disappears, presumed dead, during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. 40 years later, he appears at her door, but she is haunted by one question: Is it really him?
Bio: Paul is an Irish writer from Belfast. He currently works as a Script editor with Mammoth Screen.
An African American woman who works in a department store and lives in Edinburgh with her mother deals with her pyromaniac impulses when a woman she despises gets a promotion at work in her place.
Bio: Apphia Campbell is a writer and actress based in Edinburgh. She was selected as part of the 2019 BBC writers’ room. She has written children’s stories and ‘Birdie’s Dilemma,’ a monologue for Scenes for Survival, in collaboration with the National Theatre of Scotland and BBC. She was chosen to receive a mentor for the Channel 4 screenwriting course. She was the IASH playwrighting fellow in 2021 in collaboration with the Traverse Theatre.
When Alys’ blind date goes missing, her undiagnosed OCD leads her to believe that she’s responsible for his disappearance.
Bio: Carys Thomas is a new writer and director from Wales, currently living in London. She likes to merge together the worlds of drama and comedy to write scripts that explore the messiness of life, mental health and hope.
Desperate for money, Nadia agrees to transport a bag from one city to another, unaware that if it goes wrong her children are the collateral.
Bio: Ed Connole: A graduate from Liverpool John Moores University with an MA in screenwriting, Ed has been a finalist in BBC Writersroom Comedy, BBC Writersroom Drama and Channel 4’s Screenwriting Course. He has also had plays produced at the Park Theatre London and at the Arundel Arts Festival, winning the Best Play award.
Esther wants to avenge her son; Mia wants to save her husband. If one succeeds, the other fails.
Bio: Ed Connole: A graduate from Liverpool John Moores University with an MA in screenwriting, Ed has been a finalist in BBC Writersroom Comedy, BBC Writersroom Drama and Channel 4’s Screenwriting Course. He has also had plays produced at the Park Theatre London and at the Arundel Arts Festival, winning the Best Play award.
When Avi loses his faith and leaves the Hasidic community, the shockwaves tear his family apart.
Bio: Dave has been commissioned by Tiger Aspect, optioned by Hat Trick, and is part of the BBC New Talent Hotlist. His film adaptation of his stage play Experience (Hampstead) is slated to shoot next year.
Post-apocalyptic TV pilot following two women as they struggle to survive in a world decimated by a deadly virus.
Bio: Adam Gard is a screenwriter from Exeter. In 2017, The Next World won him a spot on Channel 4’s 4Screenwriting course.
‘Bhai’- Urdu translation for Brother, or Brothers.
Muz is a devout Muslim and once an up-and-coming surgeon now living a sedentary life as a GP in his hometown of Wembley. When his estranged, drug-dealing little brother, Adil, is framed for a crime he did not commit Muz is forced to help him the only he knows how – by becoming a Street Doctor for Adil’s boss and the local drug lord, Anwar, to buy his freedom. ‘Bhai’ is a dark drama with elements of comedy that questions the ideas of morality and family- and how much someone is willing to sacrifice to protect them.
Bio: Ali Zaidi is a British-Asian writer. His aim is to tell stories that heal, that shine a mirror and a light into our deeper selves, through honest, heart-led, often comedic and often dramatic storytelling.
A drama series where we episodically encounter the varied occupants who pass through prison cell A2/47. Episode One features first time offender Price who learns the hard way that the world doesn’t stand still and wait for him while he is doing time.
Bio: William Muir is an award winning novelist and is currently the writer-in-residence at HMP Parc in Wales.
To save her family from eviction, Eniola, a cash-strapped twentysomething, forever on the verge of burnout, joins Mercy, a magical organisation that pays her a lavish salary for reaping the souls of the dead. But with the upswing in her fortunes, comes the challenge of stopping supernatural threats against her family and a potentially world-ending calamity.
Bio: Ibrahim Salawu is a screenwriter with a strong interest in contemporary drama and genre TV. In 2018, He was paired with a script editor on BBC’s London Voices scheme, who worked with him on his sci-fi drama spec, Faraday. In 2019, He developed The Cabal, a supernatural drama spec, on Channel 4’s 4screenwriting course, and wrote Sucka Punch, an Uncertain Kingdom short film, directed by Iggy LDN. He recently completed writing an episode of Wrecked, a BBC3 slasher comedy. And he is currently working on Toussaint, a Channel 4 commissioned dramedy about a young black detective with a hero complex.
Ibrahim Salawu is represented by Jessica Stewart and Georgia Kanner at Independent Talent.
Two brothers are re-united in prison, but set against each other by the system and the legacy of violence they’ve inherited.
Bio: Cat started her writing career on the Royal Court’s Young Writers Programme and Channel 4’s 4Screenwriting. Her television writing credits include: Harlots (Hulu/BBC/Monumental), Youngers (C4/BigTalk), Eastenders (BBC), Will (TNT), Waterloo Road (BBC/Shed) and Wolfe (Sky/Abbotvision). She wrote the original BBC iPlayer short Flea and wrote and created the short form series Five by Five (BBC) co-created with Idris Elba, for which she led the writers’ room. Cat’s original television developments include: Elizabeth III (Sky/The Lighthouse), JailTown (Sky/BBC Studios/The Lighthouse), Kings (Monumental/ITV), The Jetty (Firebird/BBC).
Both pupils and teachers have questions when a murder is committed at a remote boarding school, where nothing is what appears to be…
A GP in the Scottish Highlands uncovers a strange conspiracy involving a suicidal IT consultant, killers from the Chinese Triad, and a burning pub.
Bio: Tom Mair is a writer from the Scottish Highlands and has been part of both 4screenwriting and BBC writers room programs. He currently has active developments with STV, FilmNation, The Lighthouse and Two Rivers.
A road-trip comedy-drama centred around a family of women trying to navigate the complexities of intergenerational trauma as they embark on a trip to Scotland to say goodbye to a loved one.
Ashley King is a script editor and emerging screenwriter. She was a finalist in the Shore Scripts Feature Competition 2022 and gained a place on the Channel 4 Screenwriting mentorship scheme in the same year.
Mid-life crisis comedy drama film script, PAGE Awards winner.
Sonya is an alumna of the Channel 4 screenwriting course. She has developed projects with Cosmopolitan Pictures, Hat Trick & Bryncoed Productions and has worked in various writers rooms including The Secret Lives of the Amir Sisters and Delicious. She is represented by Tanya Tillett at The Agency.
TV drama set in Pontypridd. Gareth battles against isolation, job loss and family woe during lockdown.
New screenwriter from South Wales, focusing on comedy drama. “I like to explore how local communities become a lifeline to those suffering loss of identity and economic hardship in areas forgotten by Government”.
A road movie in which a woman with Alzheimer’s and her daughter embark on a journey through the Alps to an assisted suicide clinic, but the daughter doesn’t want to let her mother go.
Ann Hawker is a writer, director and documentary maker. She has been a competition winner and finalist in The Writer’s Lab, The Red Planet Prize and Edinburgh Festival New Voices competition and has both TV and feature scripts in development.
A policeman’s double life as a people trafficker catches up with him.
James’s feature script ‘Dirty Little Lies’ is due to be filmed in early 2022 and a second feature ‘The Veil’ is currently in development. He has written several episodes of the BBC drama ‘Doctors’
A polite but downtrodden Londoner finally snaps under the weight of urban bad manners – and she starts to find revenge cathartic… A full-length dark comedy feature.
James is an award-winning advertising writer responsible for many of the country’s least-loved campaigns. He was a finalist in the BBC writers room competition with his first script & this is his second. He’s originally from South Wales, but now lives in South London, and can almost guarantee he hasn’t killed anyone. Yet.
Tender-hearted addict Shane finds himself caring for two gobby but vulnerable kids after their mum goes AWOL – but being a ‘parent’ causes the long-buried heartache of Shane’s own childhood to resurface until, emboldened by his temporary family, he revisits his past and makes a discovery changes everything.
Regina Moriarty is a graduate of the NFTS MA screenwriting course. She was on the 2013 C4 screenwriting course and was selected for C4’s Coming Up strand resulting in her first broadcast credit, half-hour drama ‘Sammy’s War’. In 2014 factual drama Murdered by My Boyfriend f(BBC3/BBC1) was awarded Best Single Drama by the RTS and nominated for a BAFTA in the same category. Current projects include an original six part TV drama The Light in the Hall (Channel 4, S4C, Sundance Channel) in production, and development projects with Potboiler Films and director Gurinder Chadha; VAL-TV and Hartswood Productions. Regina is represented by Mark Casarotto at Casarotto Ramsay.
A gifted yet emotionally stunted piano virtuoso struggles to deal with a crisis of identity and his advancing deafness. Spiralling into silent despair, he discovers it’s only by becoming deaf that he’s finally able to ‘hear’ his own music.
Nathaniel is a graduate of the NFTS MA screenwriting course and the Channel 4 screenwriting course. He has written for the acclaimed BBC1 drama Noughts & Crosses (Mammoth Screen/BBC) and episodes on Tin Star II & III (Kudos/Gaumont/Sky). The Offenders II, the Stephen Merchant/BBC 1 series. He has a number of projects in development.
A refugee mother and daughter fall in love with life in London, until one of them has to make the ultimate sacrifice for the other to stay.
Catherine started out making television documentaries and then went on to work as crime doyenne Lynda La Plante’s Head of Research at La Plante Productions. She then worked in drama development at the BBC, Working Title Films, Shed Media and Daybreak Pictures. She is currently working on an original television series idea, Healer, about the power of belief, with Fulwell 73 and CBS in LA.
Catherine’s stage work includes ‘The Grenade’ and ‘Taxi Tales – A Bag for Life’, which was produced by Tamasha Theatre Company at Stockton Arts Centre.
A feature Film Comedy Drama set in Colchester, Essex.
Matthew Broughton has been a writer of Film, Television, Theatre, Radio/Podcast for more than 25 years. STREAKERS was his second screenplay.
After losing her mother suddenly, Elliot takes a job in the middle of Greenland’s vast ice sheet, only to become lost. Can she find her way back?
Lily Loveless is a TV writer who made her name as an actor across TV, film and theatre. Lily was on the 4Screenwriting course where she wrote her first official spec script. She has subsequently developed treatments for many prominent independent production houses including Tiger Aspect, Warp Films and Hillbilly. Lily is currently working on an original project with World Productions for ITV.
A play about sex and asexuality. Sal’s husband Pete seems to have gone off sex recently — or was he never really interested in it at all?
Felix worked in film production and then as assistant to the executives at the BFI Film Fund. He is now a short film maker and writer.
A play set around the time of the St Paul Occupy movement. Young protestor Max is prepared to go to any lengths to kickstart the revolution.
Amidst the financial crash of 2008, Chris, is found wandering the beach in Coney Island, claiming he has forgotten his entire life. Through his interactions with family and friends (who are now complete strangers to him) he discovers the world with fresh eyes, changing their lives and his own life in the process.
Emily trained as an actor at RADA, and has won places on the C4 Screenwriting course, BBC Wales Writersroom and ETT’s Nationwide Voices. Her play Pavilion premiered at Theatr Clwyd in 2019, and she won the prestigious George Devine Award for her play Atlantis in 2021. She also has a television series in development with the BBC.
TABS is a comedy drama about a young woman, her granny, and their adventures across the internet.
Ellie Kendrick is a writer and performer from London, a graduate of the 4Screenwriting Course and several writing groups at the Royal Court Theatre. Her debut play was staged at Royal Court, and she has worked under script commission on her own original series for BBC and Channel 4 amongst others.
A woman in a psychiatric institution questions her psychiatrist’s evaluation that she was of unsound mind when she committed a murder.
Reformed offender and hedonist Mikey has gone a long way to turn his life around – but it doesn’t matter how far you’ve come, you’ve always still got further to go. Working in a factory where everyone speaks a different language, Glaswegian Mikey is always happy to cross the divide. So when his colleague Agata asks him to help her improve her English, in order to improve her prospects, he’s happy to help out. As their friendship develops, they gain a better understanding of themselves. But with every conversation, Mikey finds himself disappearing.
Melanie Spencer is a writer / director who was on the Channel 4 screenwriting course in 2014. She has written several excellent stage plays (Responsible Other, English, Contender – which was adapted and tx-ed on BBC Radio in 2022) and a new TV pilot script, THE INCREDIBLE KITTY FISHER.
Hostage drama about a woman who, when threatened with eviction from her home of thirty years, goes out and buys a gun.
James Fritz is a writer from South London whose plays for stage and radio include Parliament Square, Four Minutes Twelve Seconds, Ross and Rachel, Lava, Comment Is Free, The Fall, Death of A Cosmonaut and Eight Point Nine Nine.
Clare is a writer performer currently in the BBC Writersroom Comedy 20/21. She was long listed for the ERA5050 TellHerVision Project and BBC Caroline Aherne Bursary Award.
Clare is represented by Julia Mills at Berlin Associates and has television and film projects in development with Hopscotch Films Channel X and Moonshot Films.
Psychological thriller about a stressed out police officer who finds out she has a secret twin and a hidden past.
Rachel Evans is a producer based in Cardiff working on Welsh and English TV projects. Credits include 35 Diwrnod (35 Days) and Yr Amgueddfa (The Museum) for S4C and projects in development with Boom and Frank Films.
Jahvel Hall is a screenwriter and actor from London, England. In 2020/21 he was a part of the BBC Drama Writersroom and has worked on a variety of film/television projects.
Paul Beeson is an Edinburgh born actor, writer, and teacher.
He has co-written and performed in the critically successful Edinburgh Fringe sellout productions of Sweet F.A. and A War of Two Halves, which was one of BritishTheatre.com’s Critics Choices of 2019.
He has also written three short films, The Hardest Hobbit to Break, Route de Sort and Last Night in the Cockpit.
Paul is currently developing and writing two comedy drama series, The VHS Diaries and Theatre in Education, has recently filmed a pilot for Scottish sitcom Game of Cones and recorded an audio drama called From An Island.
The Gwynn’s, a destitute working class family, fake their own deaths to escape their debt and impersonate oil oligarchs the Kolosovs, whose palatial abandoned Cornish summer retreat Wenna once cleaned.
Jake is a writer based in Falmouth, Cornwall; alumnus of the Edinburgh Talent Lab, BFI Network x BAFTA crew member for 2019/20 and 2020/21 and on the BBC Writersroom Cornish Voices programme. Following its premiere at Cornwall Film Festival his current BFI short ‘Dog Years’ is on a festival run in 2022.
Alex MJ Smith is a comedy and drama writer from Falmouth, Cornwall. One of the BBC Writersroom’s Cornish Voices, he has TV comedy projects in development, gained writers’ room experience on a teen drama and recently survived being bitten by a squirrel.
Contact: amjsmith@hotmail.co.uk
Yaz is an emerging writer and director, whose recent drama/dark comedy short film MERMAIDS (2021) was backed by BFI Network South West. She’s currently working as Director’s Assistant & Mentee on a HETV show for Netflix, and developing original projects for film and television.
Anna Mansell is part of BBC Writersroom for Cornish Voices, the bestselling author of six novels, and creator/host of the podcast: How To Breathe So You Don’t Look Fat.
She currently has a feature film in development, a theatre show for performance in September 2022, and is writing her seventh novel.
Andy is a Scottish Writer/Director for Film, TV and Theater. He was a part of the BBC Writersroom 2021.
Georgia Nelson was one of the BBC Scottish Voices 2020, and has gone on to develop sketches for BBC short stuff, develop a new series with Balloon Entertainment, as well features for independent production companies. Georgia currently teaches screenwriting at Film Academy Edinburgh, working with young people to develop their ideas into short films.
Miles is a Cornish writer, producer & actor. In the last year he has had commissions from The BFI, BBC Radio 3 & Screen Cornwall and joined training schemes with BBC Writersroom and BFI NETWORK@LFF. Miles’ original project ‘At Risk’ (Bandit Cornwall) is in development at The BBC with Helen Black as lead writer & Nicola Walker attached. His short film Anoraks which is currently on BBC iPlayer was selected for LOCO Festival & LFF For Free in 2021.
TRIBUTE – SERIES 1 – a series of 13 dramatic monologues between 7 & 15 minutes in length – all eulogies / reflections about the deaths (and lives) of fictional characters, which you can listen to here – http://tributepodcasts.co.uk/
TRIBUTE – SERIES 2 – 8 scripts for audio drama monologues. A series of 8 dramatic monologues under the umbrella, LOVE – FIRST CONNECTIONS. These haven’t as yet been recorded – but I include these 8 excellent audio monologue scripts below:
June 3rd 1968: Akram recounts to his beloved Ayesha in a series of recordings, all that his new life in England has to offer. Separated from his beloved in order to seek a better life in Bradford, Akram tries to navigate through his new journey, keeping hope alive in his heart that one day they will be reunited.
Shaida Chaudhury is a writer from Yorkshire, who has written short stage plays which have been performed in various theatres including winning a commission for a full length stage play. She believes everyday life has a story waiting to be told.
Lonely divorcee Tess faces a bleak festive season till she attempts to join a local writers group and meets the mysterious and misunderstood Winnie Wildblood.
Carol is a Margate-based journalist / writer. Credits include comedy sketches at Edinburgh Fringe shows, short plays on at venues including The Arcola and Greenwich Theatre, podcasts (bit.ly/immortal-mum) and a short film Prince Charming (happynowwebseries.com). She enjoys depicting bewilderment at everyday life and the dark and mordant rantings of ordinary women.
A treasured old bike takes 79-year-old Wilf on a trip down memory lane to revisit a decision that changed the course of his life.
Nicki is a script editor and writer from London interested in writing stories which shine light on the extraordinariness of ordinary lives.
Second Person isn’t a monologue about love, but it’s not not a monologue about love. And it definitely didn’t actually happen.
Originally staged live at The Bunker, the reworked version presented here is intended to be an audio piece.
Felix O’Brien is a writer, performer and director based in Inverclyde. His work has been seen at numerous venues in Scotland and England, notably The Beacon, The Bunker, Southwark Playhouse and Latitude Festival.
A night on the pull uncovers more than the scent of aftershave.
Graham Russell has worked in television for many years as an Art Director on various dramas for BBC, ITV and C4 and is a graduate from the University of the Arts London with an MA in screenwriting. Previously, he journeyed through a portfolio of career changes including hotel management, airline crew to executive coaching all of which bring a wealth of human foibles and situations to which Graham is able to draw on in his writing.
Marcus tries to navigate the stigma of dating with herpes. When the moment comes, will he be able to tell his true love the truth?
Lily Shahmoon is a playwright, screenwriter and novelist. She has an MA in Creative Writing from UEA and her work has appeared in theatres such as The Bunker, the OSO and the Hen and Chickens. Her first play, Lipstick, debuted at the Southwark Playhouse to critical acclaim, and The Stage called it ‘fizzy and delightful’. Her next play, A Bit Funny, is currently in development.
A rescue dog bred for fighting shows us what real love looks like.
Michele worked as a print journalist for many years and writes short stories and plays. She wrote and produced her first short film in 2020, The Beast of Romney Marsh and has published several books including children’s novel The Mystery of the Missing Fur.
Steve’s done something. Something to get the attention no-one’s ever given him. But as he waits to go viral, a neighbour wants a word with him about bins.
Katy Walker is a graduate of the Royal Court Writers Group and the MA Dramatic Writing course at UAL. A trained actor, Katy writes for theatre as well as radio and screen and her work has been shortlisted by BBC Writersroom and 4Screenwriting.
A modern fable about xenophobia and horse chestnut trees.
Katy Walker is a graduate of the Royal Court Writers Group and the MA Dramatic Writing course at UAL. A trained actor, Katy writes for theatre as well as radio and screen and her work has been shortlisted by BBC Writersroom and 4Screenwriting.
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Dear All, SCREENWRITING – THE CRAFT AND THE CAREER by PHILIP SHELLEY https://www.nickhernbooks.co.uk/screenwriting Following up on last Friday’s newsletter teaser, I’m delighted to be able to share with you that I have written
Hi There, This fortnight – a teaser and more recommendations. TEASER! I’ve been reading a LOT of these (teasers) in the scripts submitted for the 2025 Channel 4 screenwriting course and here is
Hi There, This fortnight – some recommendations of writing about writing. I’ve recently read these excellent books – LIKE BROTHERS by Mark and Jay Duplass Part memoir and part instructional book for budding
Hi There, It’s blindingly obvious that the most important thing for budding screenwriters is your writing – your ability to tell a story compellingly and entertainingly. But my experience working with so many
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