Examples of my writing (spec short scripts here). Expect to see more added to this list in the coming months and years…
If you want to read these or any other examples of my work, then get in touch.
Signal Passed At Danger (2023)
Logline: When a perfectionist Train Manager discovers a body on her train, she is targeted by a murderous blackmailer and will have fight to protect her carefully curated life, and its dark secrets.
Thriller pilot (60pp)
Semi-Finalist: Screencraft Screenwriting Fellowship (2023)
A Good Death (2022)
Logline: An episodic drama about a hospice team striving to give their patients a ‘good death’, while overcoming personal, medical and financial challenges in hospice care.
Serial drama pilot (60pp)
Finalist: Page Turner Screenplay Award (2022)
Quarterfinalist: ScreenCraft TV Pilot Script Competition (2023)
In Country (2021)
Logline: When a teenage boy is murdered in a small UK town, his parents must piece together what their son was involved in, and will fight to protect their son’s pregnant girlfriend from a county lines drug gang hunting for stolen money.
Crime-adjacent drama pilot (60pp)
Finalist: Page Turner Screenplay Award (2022)
Quarterfinalist: WeScreenplay TV Pilot competition (2021)
Ripples In Romania (2021)
Logline: A naive hairdresser sets out to help Romanian orphans in 1990, which rapidly takes over her life when she must take donations from her tiny Somerset village into deepest Romania, with help from a foul-mouthed lorry driver and hippy Christians. In doing, she so brings people together across Europe, in her village and in her own family. An uplifting British comedy-drama.
British comedy-drama feature script (105pp)
Full script discoverable on Coverfly
Quarterfinalist: Stage 32 Feature Drama Screenwriting Contest
Remembrance (2021)
Logline: Unready for the birth of his first child, James is helped in coming to terms with fatherhood by his father, an ex-soldier trying to make amends for his own absence during James’s childhood.
Short script (10pp)
Official Selection: HollyShorts Screenwriting Competition
Semifinalist: Filmmatic Short Screenplay Awards (5th)
A two-minute monologue written for theatrical agency NG Personal Management, produced with an actor and director, for ‘NGPM’s Monologue Meet 2020’. We came 5th out of 21 entries, as judged by industry panellists.
New Eden (2018)
Logline: When mankind’s last colony ship reaches its destination, its Executive Officer must stop a mutiny that threatens not only the ship, but humanity’s continued existence.
Sci-Fi feature script (105pp)
Full script discoverable on Coverfly
Quarterfinalist: Screencraft Sci-Fi & Fantasy Screenwriting Competition
Quarterfinalist: Final Draft Big Break
Illegal Aliens (2018)
Logline: In this sci-fi comedy, a Border Force bureaucrat discovers aliens being forced to work on a sheep farm, but after falling in love with the farmer’s daughter he is forced to save both the aliens and the farm from the authorities.
Sci-Fi comedy feature script (94pp)
Credits:
Writer: Paradise Lost (2022)
Writer of short film produced by UAL MA Film Production students (at London College of Communication)
Script Editor: Lauren Hayes (2020)
Script Editor on UAL MA Screenwriting Graduation film ‘Lauren Hayes’.
Writer/Producer: Obsolete (2010)
Wrote and Produced low-budget short film
Script and Continuity Department: When Evil Calls (2006)
Initially developed as first made-for-mobile horror series, it was later collated into a feature for DVD release. I helped develop some of the initial storylines and structure.
If you want to read these or any other examples of my work, then get in touch.