SCREENWRITING
I'm a working screenwriter and experienced script development professional based in London.
I'm represented by Michael McCoy at Independent Talent Ltd.
I write for both film and TV, across drama and comedy-drama. I've written both originals and adaptations, of fiction and non-fiction. You sometimes hear some version of 'pick a lane'... I don't know how to do this. I've researched and written real-life stories dramatising (for example) the final years of George Orwell, and counter-revolutionary death squads in apartheid-era South Africa. I've scripted more grounded stories about London medical students and Scottish firefighters. But I've also written more genre-driven fictions about teenage ghosts, aristocratic vampires, parasitic aliens, and reptilian shapeshifters... I'm interested in satire, particularly in the context of the 'culture wars' and the ominous direction of travel in the 21st century. I like my genre elevated, whether horror, sci fi, or detective mystery... I'm hopelessly addicted to the extraordinary creative possibilities of this medium. So I don't have a lane.
In 2016, whilst script editing on Tang dynasty detective series JUDGE DEE'S MYSTERY (based on the classic novels by Robert van Gulik), I was commissioned to devise and write an original 1-hour episode, ‘The Bath House Murder’. After several years and further development under the stewardship of Chinese creatives, the series was released internationally on Netflix in 2024.
My spec script THE LAST MAN IN EUROPE – a feature-length drama about the last years of George Orwell and the writing of Nineteen Eighty-Four – was picked up by BAFTA-winning producer Hilary Salmon through The Lighthouse Film & Television (SCOOP). In 2021 TLMIE was named on The Brit List, celebrating the best unproduced film & TV scripts in the UK, compiled annually from industry recommendations.
I currently have a number of film and TV projects in various stages of funded development, including contemporary murder mystery SLEEPING LIONS, commissioned by Sky Cinema and slated for production in 2025.
A quick, non-exhaustive list of creators whose writing I particularly admire: Alex Garland, Charlie Brooker, Steven Knight, Jesse Armstrong, Lucy Prebble, Jordan Peele, James Graham, Sally Wainwright, Charlie Covell, Vince Gilligan, Christopher Storer, Mike White, Emerald Fennell, Charlie Kaufman, and many others besides...
CONTACT
For screenwriting enquiries please contact my agent at Independent Talent, or message directly using the form below:
c/o Michael McCoy
Independent Talent Group Ltd
40 Whitfield Street, London W1T 2RH
tel: +44 (0)20 7636 6565