Script Library

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.

The Scripts

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

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:

  • Lambi Judaai (A Long Separation) – SHAIDA CHAUDHURY
  • A White Christmas – CAROL COOPER
  • Uncharted Territory – NICKI GLOSSOP
  • Second Person – FELIX O’BRIEN
  • Before I Fall Any Deeper – GRAHAM RUSSELL
  • Contact – LILY SHAMOON
  • Bruno – MICHELE SHELDON
  • But The Greatest Of These Is Love –  KATY WALKER


Nine O’Clock Trot – JOE McNALLY

Green & Pleasant – KATY WALKER

COMEDY DRAMA PILOT EPISODES

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.

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.

by Yazmin Joy Vigus

A suicidal out-of-work playwright’s failed attempt to kill herself leads her to her biggest fight for survival yet: group therapy.

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.

Dreamers

A romantic comedy exploring the differences between expectations and reality, set against the backdrop of medical trials carried out in a sleep clinic.

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.

To read this script in full please contact Philip Shelley
by Paddy Campbell

A darkly comic drama set in South Armagh in the early 1990s.

Paddy is a Northern Irish writer currently developing original projects for TV and film. For enquiries please contact Kara Fitzpatrick – kara@dbltd.co.uk

by Sonya Desai

TV comedy drama pilot about a group of 40-somethings who go boomeranging back to their flat-sharing days. 

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.

by Phil Hamer

Animated comedy pilot, middle-age descends on Ieuan and Morfydd Davies as they attempt to sustain their marriage, identities and unconventional family.

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”.

by Brian Lynch

A mild-mannered man has a near-death experience and is reborn with the soul of Julius Caesar. 

by Brian Lynch

A group of survivalists prepare for the collapse of civilisation. And they’re right – disaster is coming, just not in the way they expect. 

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. 

by Regina Moriarty

A life crisis forces Laurie to go to extreme lengths to find funding for her gifted son’s education.

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.

by Chloe Myerson

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.

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.

by Laurence Tratalos

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?

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.

by Adam Usden

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…

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).

by Ashleigh Weir
Two complete strangers are forced into lockdown together after a one-night stand.
 
Ash is an actor and writer from Sheffield currently based in London. As a student, she wrote, performed and toured as a member of the Cambridge Footlights alongside her degree in English Literature, before going on to train in Musical Theatre at Mountview Academy of Performing Arts. She was a shortlisted candidate of the Channel 4 Screenwriter’s Programme in 2021.
 
by Molly McGuinness
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 

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.
by Rachel Clark

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.

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. 

by Danny Moran

Comedy about a once great chess player attempting to relaunch her career with the help of her estranged brother.

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.

by Claire Rowlands

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.

Claire Rowlands is a writer from Birmingham. She gained a place on the Channel 4 Screenwriting mentorship scheme in 2021 and again in 2022.

DRAMA PILOT EPISODES

by Paul Preston

A 12-year-old boy is caught between his unbalanced mother and the criminal father she is trying to take him from.

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.

by Katherine Middleton

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.

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.

 
by Mared Swain

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.

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.

by Paul J. Kennedy

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?

Paul is an Irish writer from Belfast. He currently works as a Script editor with Mammoth Screen.

by Apphia Campbell

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.

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.

 
by Carys Thomas

When Alys’ blind date goes missing, her undiagnosed OCD leads her to believe that she’s responsible for his disappearance.

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.

by Matthew Bardsley
A group of new fathers bond over the pleasures and pain of parenting and its impact on their lives.
 
Matthew is a very experienced TV dramatist with many on-screen credits. He is represented by St John Donald at United Agents.
 
by Ed Connole

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.

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.

 
by Ed Connole

Esther wants to avenge her son; Mia wants to save her husband. If one succeeds, the other fails.

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.

by Dave Florez

When Avi loses his faith and leaves the Hasidic community, the shockwaves tear his family apart.

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.

by Adam Gard

Post-apocalyptic TV pilot following two women as they struggle to survive in a world decimated by a deadly virus.

Adam Gard is a screenwriter from Exeter. In 2017, The Next World won him a spot on Channel 4’s 4Screenwriting course.

By Ali Zaidi

‘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. 

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. 

by William Muir

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.

William Muir is an award winning novelist and is currently the writer-in-residence at HMP Parc in Wales.

by Ibrahim Salawu

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.

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.

by Cat Jones

Two brothers are re-united in prison, but set against each other by the system and the legacy of violence they’ve inherited.

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).

by Sam Hoare

Both pupils and teachers have questions when a murder is committed at a remote boarding school, where nothing is what appears to be…

Sam Hoare has written for stage, tv, film and radio/podcast. He has worked in writers rooms for the likes of Disney and Netflix and has several projects in development with companies such as Kudos, FilmNation and BBC Worldwide.
 
by Tom Mair

A GP in the Scottish Highlands uncovers a strange conspiracy involving a suicidal IT consultant, killers from the Chinese Triad, and a burning pub.

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.

SINGLE FILMS

by Ashley King

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.

by Sonya Desai

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.

by Phil Hamer

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”.

by Ann Hawker

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. 

by James Hey

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’

by James Hodson

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.

by Regina Moriarty

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.

by Nathaniel Price

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.

by Catherine Milne

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.

by Matthew Broughton

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.

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by Lily Loveless

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.

STAGE PLAYS

by Felix Levinson

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.

by Felix Levinson

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.

by Emily White

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.

by Ellie Kendrick

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.

 

by Sam Hoare

A woman in a psychiatric institution questions her psychiatrist’s evaluation that she was of unsound mind when she committed a murder.

Sam Hoare has written for stage, tv, film and radio/podcast. He has worked in writers rooms for the likes of Disney and Netflix and has several projects in development with companies such as Kudos, FilmNation and BBC Worldwide.
 
by Melanie Spencer

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.

OUTLINES

by James Fritz

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.

by Clare Plested

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.

by Rachel Evans

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.

by Jahvel Hall

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.

by Paul Beeson

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.

by Jake Mackintosh

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.

by Alex MJ Smith

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

by Yazmin Joy Vigus

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.

by Anna Mansell

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.

by Andy Twyman

Andy is a Scottish Writer/Director for Film, TV and Theater. He was a part of the BBC Writersroom 2021.

by Georgia Nelson

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.

by Miles Sloman

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.

AUDIO DRAMA

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:

by Shaida Chaudhury

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.

by Carol Cooper

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.

by Nicki Glossop

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.

by Felix O'Brien

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.

by Graham Russell

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.

by Lily Shamoon

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.

by Michele Sheldon

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.

by Katy Walker

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.

by Joe McNally

Jamie can’t afford to pay for his Grandfather’s funeral, so he decides to take matters into his own hands and give him the send off he deserves.

Joe McNally is a screenwriter and playwright from Liverpool. He has been part of both the Liverpool Everyman Young Playwright’s Programme and the Liverpool Royal Court Stage Write Development Programme.

by Katy Walker

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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