Director of World Wide Development for Hollywood script development company WriteMovies.
Chair of Screenwriters Forum - organisation by and for professional writers of TV, film and video games. Jointly-written cinema-quality short film TAKING TIME, and monthly Script Development Group open to all.
Professional writer and producer since 2004: 135 episodes of BBC drama plus web series, short films, Fringe plays, interactive series and more.
Supporting writers: WriteMovies Director of World Wide Development, over 100 commissioned readings & script consultations for clients, and open-access Creative Writing courses assessed as 'outstanding'.
Watch The Mourning After here! Sly satirical short film, about a suspiciously young widow who discovers that grief makes the perfect fashion statement.
Resources for writers and producers: extensive resources here, drawing on my role as Chair of Screenwriters Forum, communications for the Producers' Forum and its members (2011-2014), and other roles.
Further versatile creative services available through FRIENDLY CREATIVES - websites, videos and media in your control. Dozens of HD videos and websites produced for clients including Blue Orange Arts and writers Helen Cross, Jane Campion Hoye and Raj K Lal.
Always developing innovative ideas and new ways to deliver them.
"You're watching this because we're dead." Innovative interactive identity theft series. Apparently, I'm culpable.
Recent Articles
- Gone International!
- Our Successful Monthly Screen Writers Development Group – Schedule for 2019!
- Onwards and upwards from Creative Writing courses…
- Producer/Script Editor, TAKING TIME – jointly-written cinema-quality short film
- Creative Writing courses – catch them while you can!
- Grow organically – or go for the jugular?
- It’s really here… CITIZENS: Excision – interactive identity theft series
- Script development opportunities for filmmakers and writers with Screenwriters’ Forum – plus cinema-quality short film and other plans
- Chair of West Midlands Screenwriters’ Forum (2015-)
- Business first?
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