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Writers’ Academy is a training scheme for writers of television drama. The course was originally run by the

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from 2005 to 2013. It relaunched under the banner of BBC Studios in 2019.

About the course

The Writers’ Academy offers each cohort of writers a year's paid training, which includes lectures and input from a range of leading industry practitioner

The writers receive commissions on the BBC's flagship continuing drama shows and are also given the opportunity to develop an original project with BBC Studios or one of their independent production partners. The Writers' Academy is led by John Yorke (producer), John Yorke.

Alumni

As of 2021, the Writers' Academy has had 10 cohorts of writers. Participants are commissioned to write episodes for BBC's flagship Continuing Drama shows. These have included EastEnders, Casualty,

Holby City ''Holby City'' (stylised on-screen as HOLBY CIY) is a British medical drama television series that aired weekly on BBC One. It was created by Tony McHale and Mal Young as a spin-off from the established BBC medical drama '' Casualty'', and ...

, Doctors and

River City ''River City'' is a Scottish television soap opera that was first broadcast on BBC One Scotland on 24 September 2002. ''River City'' follows the lives of the people who live and work in the fictional district of Shieldinch. In November 2017, a ...

. In addition to their Continuing Drama commissions, Writers’ Academy alumni have written the following:

2005

* Rachel Flowerday: Co-creator of

The Moonstone ''The Moonstone'' (1868) by Wilkie Collins is a 19th-century British epistolary novel. It is an early example of the modern detective novel, and established many of the ground rules of the modern genre. The story was serialised in Charles Di ...

and Malory Towers with Sasha Hails. Co-creator of

Father Brown Father Brown is a fictional Roman Catholic priest and amateur detective who is featured in 53 short stories published between 1910 and 1936 written by English author G. K. Chesterton. Father Brown solves mysteries and crimes using his intuiti ...

with Tahsin Guner. Credits on The Sanctuary, Marcella, The Last Czars. * Sasha Hails: Co-creator of

& Malory Towers with Rachel Flowerday. Casualty lead writer 2007- 2014. Credits on

Versailles The Palace of Versailles ( ; french: Château de Versailles ) is a former royal residence built by King Louis XIV located in Versailles, about west of Paris, France. The palace is owned by the French Republic and since 1995 has been managed, ...

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, Tarsas Jatek.

Wizards vs. Aliens ''Wizards vs Aliens'' is a British science fantasy television programme produced by BBC Cymru Wales and FremantleMedia Enterprises for CBBC and created by Russell T Davies and Phil Ford. The series focuses on the exploits of 16-year-old wizard ...

. Waterloo Road. Additional material on

The Crown The Crown is the state in all its aspects within the jurisprudence of the Commonwealth realms and their subdivisions (such as the Crown Dependencies, overseas territories, provinces, or states). Legally ill-defined, the term has differen ...

. * Dana Fainaru: Lead writer and core writer Casualty &

. Death in Paradise, The Last Czars. * Joy Wilkinson: Core Writer for Doctors. Credits on

Land Girls Land Girls or variants may refer to: *Women's Land Army (World War II) *Women's Land Army (World War I) *''The Land Girls ''The Land Girls'' is a 1998 film directed by David Leland and starring Catherine McCormack, Rachel Weisz, Anna Friel, Ste ...

, Nick Nickleby and Dr Who.

Screen International ''Screen International'' is a British film magazine covering the international film business. It is published by Media Business Insight, a British B2B media company. The magazine is primarily aimed at those involved in the global film business. ...

Star of Tomorrow and two-time Brit List nominee. Theatre includes ''The Sweet Science of Bruising'' (Southwark Playhouse), ''Acting Leader'' (Tricycle Theatre) and ''Fair'' (Finborough Theatre and Trafalgar Studios, West End). * Mark Catley: Lead writer Casualty & EastEnders. Co-creator of Eggbox. Credits on

Call The Midwife ''Call the Midwife'' is a BBC period drama series about a group of nurse midwives working in the East End of London in the late 1950s and 1960s. The principal cast of the show has included Jessica Raine, Miranda Hart, Helen George, Bryony H ...

, The Interceptor, Youngers. * Matt Evans: Lead writer EastEnders. Co-creator 6 Degrees. Credits on

Riviera ''Riviera'' () is an Italian word which means "coastline", ultimately derived from Latin , through Ligurian . It came to be applied as a proper name to the coast of Liguria, in the form ''Riviera ligure'', then shortened in English. The two areas ...

New Tricks ''New Tricks'' is a British television police procedural comedy drama, created by Nigel McCrery and Roy Mitchell, produced primarily by Wall to Wall (until its final year, when it was handled by Headstrong Pictures), and broadcast on BBC ...

, Law & Order UK,

Stella Stella or STELLA may refer to: Art, entertainment, and media Comedy *Stella (comedy group), a comedy troupe consisting of Michael Showalter, Michael Ian Black and David Wain Characters * Stella (given name), including a list of characters with t ...

, Wild at Heart,

Grange Hill ''Grange Hill'' is a British children's television drama series, originally produced by the BBC and portraying life in a typical comprehensive school. The show began its run on 8 February 1978 on BBC1, and was one of the longest-running program ...

The Dumping Ground ''The Dumping Ground'' (also informally referred to as ''The DG'') is a British children's television drama series that focuses on the lives and experiences of young people who live in a children's home with their care workers in care. The s ...

Our Girl ''Our Girl'' is a British television military drama series, written and created by Tony Grounds, first broadcast on BBC One on 24 March 2013. The series initially starred Lacey Turner as Molly Dawes, a young working-class woman, who joins the ...

and

The Worst Witch ''The Worst Witch'' is a series of children's books written and illustrated by Jill Murphy. The series are primarily about a girl who attends a witch school and fantasy stories, with eight books published. The first, ''The Worst Witch'', was ...

. * Bradley Quirk: Executive producer Horrible Histories the Movie. Head of Development

The Girl with All the Gifts ''The Girl with All the Gifts'' is a science-fiction novel by M. R. Carey, published in June 2014 by Orbit Books. It is based on his 2013 Edgar Award-nominated short story ''Iphigenia In Aulis'' and was written concurrently with the screenplay ...

. * Chris Boiling: Doctors regular writer. Wine journalist.

2006

* Mark Clompus: Core writer Doctors & EastEnders. Credits on Missing. * Daisy Coulam: Creator of

Grantchester Grantchester is a village and civil parish on the River Cam or Granta in South Cambridgeshire, England. It lies about south of Cambridge. Name The village of Grantchester is listed in the 1086 Domesday Book as ''Grantesete'' and ''Grauntse ...

and

Deadwater Fell ''Deadwater Fell'' is a four-part British drama television miniseries written and created by Daisy Coulam. It stars David Tennant as a doctor whose wife and three young children are murdered in a fire. It premiered 10 January 2020 on Channel 4. ...

. Credits on

Humans Humans (''Homo sapiens'') are the most abundant and widespread species of primate, characterized by bipedalism and exceptional cognitive skills due to a large and complex brain. This has enabled the development of advanced tools, culture, ...

and Death in Paradise. * Ian Kershaw: Credits on EastEnders,

Coronation Street ''Coronation Street'' is an English soap opera created by ITV Granada, Granada Television and shown on ITV (TV network), ITV since 9 December 1960. The programme centres around a cobbled, terraced street in Weatherfield, a fictional town based ...

Cold Feet Cold feet is a phrase that refers to a person not going through with an action, particularly one which requires long term commitment, due to fear, uncertainty, and doubt. A person is said to be "getting cold feet" when, after previously committin ...

, Death in Paradise, Shameless. * Stephen Keyworth: Core writer Doctors, EastEnders and Casualty. Credits on animation Monkey & Gorilla. Playwright and radio dramatist. *

Al Smith Alfred Emanuel Smith (December 30, 1873 – October 4, 1944) was an American politician who served four terms as Governor of New York and was the Democratic Party's candidate for president in 1928. The son of an Irish-American mother and a ...

: Co-creator of The Cut with Geoffrey Goodwin. Credits on

Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area ...

The Coroner ''The Coroner'' is a BBC Birmingham drama series starring Claire Goose as Jane Kennedy, a coroner based in a fictional South Devon coastal town. Matt Bardock stars as Detective Sergeant Davey Higgins. On 2 March 2017, the BBC announced th ...

. Prolific playwright for theatre and radio. Recent theatre credits include Radio (Arcola Theatre), Harrogate (The Royal Court) and The Astronaut Wives Club (Soho Theatre). Recent radio drama credits include Life Lines and First Do No Harm (both

BBC Radio 4 BBC Radio 4 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC that replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. It broadcasts a wide variety of Talk radio, spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history fro ...

). * Jeff Young: Playwright and radio dramatist. Credits on Stepping Up. Author of the Costa Biography Prize Shortlisted book ''Ghost Town''. Over 25 radio plays broadcast in the last two decades. Written plays for

Liverpool Everyman The Everyman Theatre stands at the north end of Hope Street, Liverpool, Merseyside, England. It was founded in 1964, in Hope Hall (once a chapel, then a cinema), in an area of Liverpool noted for its bohemian environment and political edge, ...

, Kneehigh and

Bristol Old Vic Bristol Old Vic is a British theatre company based at the Theatre Royal, Bristol. The present company was established in 1946 as an offshoot of the Old Vic in London. It is associated with the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, which became a f ...

. * Abi Brown: Credits on Stepping Up. * Paul Jenkins: Theatre director. Play credits include These Trees are Made of Blood at the

Southwark Playhouse Southwark Playhouse is a theatre in London, located between Borough and Elephant and Castle tube stations. History The Southwark Playhouse Theatre Company was founded in 1993 by Juliet Alderdice and Tom Wilson. They identified the need for a h ...

2007

* Abby Ajayi: Credits on Coming Up,

Hollyoaks ''Hollyoaks'' is a British soap opera which began airing on Channel 4 on 23 October 1995. It was created by Phil Redmond, who had previously conceived the soap opera ''Brookside''. Since 2005, episodes have been aired on sister channel E4 a da ...

Hetty Feather ''Hetty Feather'' is a book by English author Jacqueline Wilson. It is about a young red-haired girl who was left by her mother at the Foundling Hospital as a baby and follows her story as she lives in a foster home before returning to the Fou ...

How to Get Away With Murder ''How to Get Away with Murder'' is an American legal thriller television series that premiered on American Broadcasting Company, ABC on September 25, 2014, and concluded on May 14, 2020. The series was created by Peter Nowalk, and produced by Sh ...

Four Weddings & A Funeral ''Four Weddings and a Funeral'' is a 1994 British romantic comedy film directed by Mike Newell. It is the first of several films by screenwriter Richard Curtis to feature Hugh Grant, and follows the adventures of Charles (Grant) and his circle ...

. Currently writing ''Riches'' for ITV. * Justin Young: Executive producer and showrunner

. Credits on

Ripper Street ''Ripper Street'' is a British mystery drama television series set in Whitechapel in the East End of London starring Matthew Macfadyen, Jerome Flynn, Adam Rothenberg, and MyAnna Buring. It begins in 1889, six months after the infamous Jack th ...

Dickensian Charles John Huffam Dickens (; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian e ...

, Death in Paradise,

Sanditon ''Sanditon'' (1817) is an unfinished work, unfinished novel by the English writer Jane Austen. In January 1817, Austen began work on a new novel she called ''The Brothers'', later titled ''Sanditon'', and completed eleven chapters before stopp ...

. Announced as lead writer Sanditon series 2 and 3. * Samina Baig * Paul Campbell: Core writer Doctors. Credits on

. * Fiona Evans: Playwright and Radio dramatist. Credits on

. Play credits include ''Scarborough'' and ''Geoff Dead: Disco for Sale''. Radio credits include ''The Startling Truths of Old World Sparrows'' (BBC Radio 3) which won the Grand Prix Nova International Radio Drama Festival silver award. * Karen Laws: Creator of 32 Brinkburn Street. Credits on Shameless, Waterloo Road,

. Radio credits include

The Archers ''The Archers'' is a BBC radio drama on BBC Radio 4, the corporation's main spoken-word channel. Broadcast since 1951, it was famously billed as "an everyday story of country folk" and is now promoted as "a contemporary drama in a rural sett ...

. * Michael Levine: Core writer Casualty. * Philip Gawthorne Writer

Modern Life is Rubbish ''Modern Life Is Rubbish'' is the second album by English alternative rock band Blur, released in May 1993. Although their debut album ''Leisure'' (1991) had been commercially successful, Blur faced a severe media backlash soon after its releas ...

. Contributor to Underwater.

2008

Tom Bidwell Tom Bidwell is a British screenwriter and playwright. Early life Raised in Lancashire, Bidwell developed cancer in his shoulder at the age of 15, which was successfully treated. He completed his GCSEs and later obtained a degree in English and D ...

: Creator of

The Irregulars ''The Irregulars'' is a British mystery adventure crime drama streaming television series created by Tom Bidwell for Netflix. Based on the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, it features the Baker Street Irregulars working for Dr. Watson saving ...

Watership Down ''Watership Down'' is an adventure novel by English author Richard Adams, published by Rex Collings Ltd of London in 1972. Set in Berkshire in southern England, the story features a small group of rabbits. Although they live in their natural w ...

My Mad Fat Diary ''My Mad Fat Diary'' is a British teen comedy-drama television series that debuted on E4 on 14 January 2013. It is based on the novel ''My Fat, Mad Teenage Diary'' by Rae Earl. The second series started on 19 February 2014 and ended on 31 Mar ...

and Katy. Co-creator of Eggbox with Mark Catley. *

Sally Abbott Sally Abbott is a British screenwriter, playwright and former theatre producer, best known for the BBC1 crime drama ''The Coroner'', which ran for two series. Career She worked in theatre for 18 years as a producer, young people’s director and ...

: Creator of

. Credits on Death in Paradise and

Vera Vera may refer to: Names *Vera (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name) * Vera (given name), a given name (including a list of people and fictional characters with the name) **Vera (), archbishop of the archdiocese of Tarra ...

. * Rob Williams: Creator of The Victim and Chasing Shadows. Credits on

DCI Banks ''DCI Banks'' is a British television crime drama series produced by Left Bank Pictures for the ITV network. Originally broadcast over five series in 2010–2016, the series was based on Peter Robinson's Inspector Alan Banks novels and st ...

The Man in the High Castle ''The Man in the High Castle'' (1962), by Philip K. Dick, is an alternative history novel wherein the Axis Powers won World War II. The story occurs in 1962, fifteen years after the end of the war in 1947, and depicts the political intrigues bet ...

and

Killing Eve ''Killing Eve'' is a British spy thriller television series, produced in the United Kingdom by Sid Gentle Films for BBC America and BBC Three. The series follows Eve Polastri (Sandra Oh), a British intelligence investigator tasked with captur ...

. Nominated BAFTA Mini Series and Scottish BAFTA Best Scripted for The Victim. Forthcoming original sres

Channel 4 Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network operated by the state-owned enterprise, state-owned Channel Four Television Corporation. It began its transmission on 2 November 1982 and was established to provide a four ...

series ''Screw'' and showrunner of

Apple TV An apple is an edible fruit produced by an apple tree (''Malus domestica''). Apple trees are cultivated worldwide and are the most widely grown species in the genus '' Malus''. The tree originated in Central Asia, where its wild ancestor, ...

thriller ''Suspicion.'' * Sonali Bhattacharyya: Playwright and radio dramatist. Theatre credits include ''Two Billion Beats'' (Orange Tree Theatre), ''Megaball'' (National Theatre Learning), ''2066'' (Almeida Theatre), ''The Invisible Boy'' (Kiln Theatre) and the South Bank Show award nominated ''White Open Spaces'' (Pentabus Theatre). Radio credits include core writer on

Silver Street ''Silver Street'' is a radio soap opera broadcast on the BBC Asian Network from 24 May 2004 to 26 March 2010. It was the first soap to be aimed at the British South Asian community, Broadcast history It was introduced in 2004 as part of the ...

. * Rebecca Wojciechowski: Core writer EastEnders and Casualty. Credits on Death in Paradise and

. * Gill Adams: Fringe First Award Winner. Part of

Meet the Richardsons ''Meet the Richardsons'' is a British comedy television series that premiered 27 February 2020, on Dave. It stars husband and wife comedians Jon Richardson and Lucy Beaumont as fictionalised versions of themselves discussing their lives in a moc ...

. Started the

Hull Blokes The Hull Blokes are a writing collective based in Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, in the North East of England. They write and perform comedy and drama work, both for the stage and film. History In May 2002, Gill Adams, a Hull ...

playwriting group. * Paul Mari: Regular writer EastEnders. * Amanda Smith.

2009

* Kim Revill: Lea writer EastEnders. Lead writer and executive producer on Red Rock. Credits on

Ackley Bridge ''Ackley Bridge'' is a British comedy-drama series set in a multicultural academy school of the same name. The series is filmed in Halifax, West Yorkshire and it began broadcasting on Channel 4 on 7 June 2017. In the fourth series, ''Ackle ...

. * Tahsin Guner: Co-creator of

with Rachel Flowerday. Co-creator of

Killed by my Debt ''Killed by My Debt'' is a 2018 BBC Three drama based on the life of Jerome Rogers who died by suicide aged twenty having accrued debts of over £1,000, the debt was pursued by Andrew Maughan of The London Borough of Camden, & Mike Marrs of Marst ...

(Winner of BAFTA Best Single Film). Credits on

Lewis Lewis may refer to: Names * Lewis (given name), including a list of people with the given name * Lewis (surname), including a list of people with the surname Music * Lewis (musician), Canadian singer * " Lewis (Mistreated)", a song by Radiohea ...

and

. *

Tim Price Tim Price (born 3 April 1979) is a New Zealand equestrian, competing in eventing. He is married to Jonelle Price (née Richards), also a New Zealand eventing rider. They are both competing at top international level. Price was born in 1979 in C ...

: Credits on Unprecedented, How to Fake a War,

The Smoke The Smoke were an English pop group from York. They consisted of Mick Rowley (lead vocals), Mal Luker (lead guitar), John "Zeke" Lund (bass) and Geoff Gill (drums and compositor). The band originally performed around Yorkshire as The Moons ...

The New Worst Witch ''The New Worst Witch'' is a television series, based on Jill Murphy's '' The Worst Witch'' books, about a group of young witches at a Witch Academy. It ran for two series from 2005 to 2007. The series was a spin-off from '' The Worst Witch' ...

Switch In electrical engineering, a switch is an electrical component that can disconnect or connect the conducting path in an electrical circuit, interrupting the electric current or diverting it from one conductor to another. The most common type ...

Secret Diary of a Call Girl ''Secret Diary of a Call Girl'' is a British drama television series that aired from 27 September 2007 to 22 March 2011 on ITV2, based on the blog and books by the pseudonymous Belle de Jour. It stars Billie Piper as Belle, a high-end London ...

and

Y Pris ''Y Pris'' (English: ''The Price'') is a Welsh television crime drama, produced by Fiction Factory for Welsh public service television station S4C. The series, described in its tagline as "''The Sopranos'' by the seaside", is set in Carmarthens ...

. * Lauren Klee: Core writer on EastEnders. Credits on

Red Water ''Red Water'' is a 2003 American made-for-television horror film starring Lou Diamond Phillips, Kristy Swanson, Gideon Emery and Coolio. When former oil rig worker turned fishing captain John Sanders (Lou Diamond Phillips) agrees to help when hi ...

, Tina & Bobby, Waterloo Road. * Nicola Wilson: Credits on

, Shakespeare & Hathaway,

The Good Karma Hospital ''The Good Karma Hospital'' is a medical drama series produced by Tiger Aspect Productions for ITV about a disillusioned doctor, Ruby Walker, who travels to South India hoping to make a fresh start. It stars Amanda Redman, Amrita Acharia, Ja ...

. * Simon Vinnicombe: Playwright. * Stacey Gregg: Credits on Little Birds, Here Before,

The Letter for the King ''The Letter for the King'' ( nl, De brief voor de koning, ) is a book by the Dutch writer Tonke Dragt, first published in 1962. A sequel, The Secrets of the Wild Wood, ''The Secrets of the Wild Wood'' ( nl, Geheim van het Wilde Woud), was publi ...

, The Innocents,

The Frankenstein Chronicles ''The Frankenstein Chronicles'' is a British television period crime drama series that first aired on ITV Encore on 11 November 2015, designed as a re-imagining of Mary Shelley's 1818 novel ''Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus''. Lead acto ...

, Coming Up, Raw. * Shazia Rashid:

2010

* Matthew Barry: Core writer on Casualty, Credits on

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina ''Chilling Adventures of Sabrina'' is an American comic book series published by Archie Horror, an imprint of Archie Comics, beginning in 2014. The series is a darker take on the characters and setting of ''Sabrina the Teenage Witch''. It is wri ...

, Stella, Redwater, Death in Paradise,

Banana A banana is an elongated, edible fruit – botanically a berry (botany), berry – produced by several kinds of large herbaceous flowering plants in the genus ''Musa (genus), Musa''. In some countries, Cooking banana, bananas used for ...

, Waterloo Road. * Matthew Broughton: Credits on Manson, My Spy Family, Critical. Playwright and radio dramatist. Recent credits include ''Tracks'' and''Vincent Price and the Horror of the English Blood Beast'' (BBC Radio 4). * Patrick Homes: Core writer on

. Credits on

The Bill ''The Bill'' is a British police procedural television series, first broadcast on ITV from 16 August 1983 until 31 August 2010. The programme originated from a one-off drama, '' Woodentop'', broadcast in August 1983. The programme focused on ...

. * Peter McKenna: Creator and showrunner of Red Rock. Credits on

The Musketeers ''The Musketeers'' is a British period action drama programme based on the characters from Alexandre Dumas's 1844 novel ''The Three Musketeers'' and co-produced by BBC America and BBC Worldwide. The series follows the musketeers Athos, Aramis ...

, The Living and the Dead,

The Last Kingdom ''The Last Kingdom'' is the first historical novel in The Saxon Stories by Bernard Cornwell, published in 2004. This story introduces Uhtred of Bebbanburg, a Saxon noble who is kidnapped by Danish Vikings as a young child and is assimilated ...

The Gloaming The Gloaming is a contemporary Irish/American music supergroup. Its members are fiddle player Martin Hayes, sean-nós singer Iarla Ó Lionáird, hardanger fiddle player Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh, and pianist Thomas Bartlett. Guitarist De ...

, Frankie. Forthcoming

RTÉ (RTÉ) (; Irish for "Radio & Television of Ireland") is the national broadcaster of Ireland headquartered in Dublin. It both produces and broadcasts programmes on television, radio and online. The radio service began on 1 January 1926, while ...

and

Acorn TV The acorn, or oaknut, is the nut of the oaks and their close relatives (genera ''Quercus'' and '' Lithocarpus'', in the family Fagaceae). It usually contains one seed (occasionally two seeds), enclosed in a tough, leathery shell, and bor ...

show ''Hidden Assets.'' * Fiona Peek: Credits on Red Rock. * Paul Matthew Thompson: Creator of Shakespeare & Hathaway. Writer and producer on forthcoming Imperial Spy. Credits on

. * Andrea Page * Natasha Langridge: Playwright

2011

* Christian O’Reilly: Credits on Red Rock, Deception, Ros na Run. * Katie Douglas: Core writer on EastEnders and

Holby Holby is a fictional city in the United Kingdom, the setting for the BBC medical dramas '' Casualty'' and ''Holby City'', and the police drama ''HolbyBlue''. It is based on the real city of Bristol, where ''Casualty'' was formerly filmed, and is n ...

City. Credits on

Dani's Castle ''Dani's Castle'' (also known as ''Rich, Jimmy & Kait's Castle'' during the third series) is a British children's comedy series broadcast on the CBBC Channel. Dani inherits a castle in Northern Ireland from her deceased aunt and gets more than ...

, Waterloo Road, The Revolting World of Stanley Brown, Sadie J, After You've Gone. Playwright. *

Emer Kenny Emer Gwynne Morganna Kenny (born 10 October 1989) is a British actress and screenwriter. Career Kenny made her professional debut in the 2007 BBC television drama ''Coming Down the Mountain'', and, in 2009, she made her film debut in Phil Clay ...

: Actor and writer. Creator BBC series pilot Ladybaby. Credits on Red Rock,

Save Me Save Me may refer to: Film and television * ''Save Me'', a 1994 film starring Lysette Anthony * ''Sauve-moi'' (''Save Me''), a 2000 French film directed by Christian Vincent * ''Save Me'' (film), a 2007 American film directed by Robert Cary * ' ...

, EastEnders E20 and

Harlots Prostitution is the business or practice of engaging in sexual activity in exchange for payment. The definition of "sexual activity" varies, and is often defined as an activity requiring physical contact (e.g., sexual intercourse, non-pen ...

. Forthcoming series adaptation of

Val McDermid Valarie "Val" McDermid, (born 4 June 1955) is a Scottish crime writer, best known for a series of novels featuring clinical psychologist Dr. Tony Hill in a grim sub-genre that McDermid and others have identified as Tartan Noir. Biography M ...

's novel ''Karen Pirie''. * Kenneth Emson: Co-creator The Last Hours of Laura K. * Kirstie Swain: Creator of Pure. Credits on Run,

Clique A clique ( AusE, CanE, or ), in the social sciences, is a group of individuals who interact with one another and share similar interests. Interacting with cliques is part of normative social development regardless of gender, ethnicity, or popula ...

and Eve. * Steph Lloyd Jones: Credits on Red Rock,

. * Ben Tagoe: Credits on

In the Long Run ''In the Long Run'' is a British comedy-drama television series created by Idris Elba which premiered on Sky One on 29 March 2018. Loosely based on Elba’s childhood, the show is set in the 1980s on the gritty, fictitious Eastbridge Estate i ...

Stan Lee's Lucky Man ''Stan Lee's Lucky Man'' is a British crime drama television series, produced by Carnival Films and POW! Entertainment for Sky 1, which follows the story of Murder Squad detective Harry Clayton ( James Nesbitt), who is granted the power to co ...

, Jamie Johnson. Core writer on

. * Rosalind O Shaughnessy: Medical adviser for 60+ Casualty episodes.

2012

* Robert Goldsbrough: Winner of the Sir Peter Ustinov Television Scriptwriting Award at the International Emmys for his debut script ''The Forge''. * Lucia Haynes: credits on

, Annika Standed and

JoJo & Gran Gran ''JoJo & Gran Gran'' is a British children's animated television series based on the semi-autobiographical picture book ''Jo-Jo and Gran-Gran, All in a Week'' by Laura Henry-Allain MBE. It is the first animated series to centre on a Black Britis ...

. * Catherine Johnson Author and screenwriter. Writer of Bulletboy. Forthcoming series inspired by Miranda Kaufmann's book ''Black Tudors: The Untold Story''. * Kit Lambert: Credits on

and Shakespeare & Hathaway. * Natalie Mitchell: Core writer on EastEnders. Credits on

. Playwright. *

Janice Okoh Janice Okoh is a British playwright and screenwriter. Early life Okoh is from Lewisham. Before becoming a playwright, she worked as a teacher. Career Her first play, ''Egusi Soup'' was produced in 2012 by Menagerie Theatre/Soho Theatre. In 201 ...

: Credits on

and Channel 4 anthology series ''On the Edge''. Playwright and radio dramatist. Radio plays include adaptations of Malorie Blackman's ''Noughts & Crosses'' and Kate Chopin's ''The Awakening''. * Laura Poliakoff: Regular EastEnders writer. * Mark Stevenson: Core writer Casualty and EastEnders. Credits on Waterloo Road,

and

Eve Eve (; ; ar, حَوَّاء, Ḥawwāʾ; el, Εὕα, Heúa; la, Eva, Heva; Syriac: romanized: ) is a figure in the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible. According to the origin story, "Creation myths are symbolic stories describing how the ...

2019

* Jess Green * Katerina Watson * Emma Dennis-Edwards * Rebekah Harrison * Lydia Marchant * Jennie Davis * Tom Powell * Kellie Smith

2021

* Berri George: Credits on

. * Mahad Ali * Daniel Nixon * Orla Hannon * Charlotte Cromie * Jamie Davis: Forthcoming ITV drama ''You and Me''. * Gareth Farr * John Servante: Credits on Channel 4's anthology series ''On The Edge''.

References

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