Fraser Ayres

Fraser is an award-winning actor, writer and showrunner, whose work spans many genres and fields, from creating and showrunning five seasons of the hit panel show SORRY, I DIDN’T KNOW for ITV, to radio plays such as MAYNARD for BBC Radio 4 (directed by Kathy Burke), and SPACE IS THE PLACE, a 5 part dramatisation … Continued

Jack Bennett

Jack Bennett is a Bristol based creative specialising in animation. For Wildseed Studios, he created a new children’s coming of age animated series, DODO, based on his award-winning short film NOT THE END OF THE WORLD, which was commissioned as a Sky Original production. Jack worked as Series Director and has written many episodes, which … Continued

Mark Boutros

Mark is an award-winning screenwriter, and experienced script editor and producer, having worked across multiple genres. He co-wrote the one-off comedy drama about Muhammad Ali, THE GREATEST. OF ALL TIME, which was broadcast on Sky Arts as part of their Emmy nominated URBAN MYTHS season. Other writing credits include Romesh Ranganathan’s THE RELUCTANT LANDLORD for … Continued

Mellie Buse

Mellie is a children’s/family TV content creator, producer, script writer, voice director, script editor and consultant. Together with her partner, Jan Page, they set up Adastra Creative, an independent production company, which has produced five series of top rated BAFTA winning CBeebies show GRANDPA IN MY POCKET. In addition, she co-created, wrote and produced HA … Continued

Rik Carmichael

Rik is a screenwriter who often co-writes with the director John Hay. Together they have collaborated on a number of films including THERE’S ONLY ONE JIMMY GRIMBLE, starring Robert Carlyle and Ray Winstone, THE STEAL, starring Alfred Molina, Stephen Fry and Helen Slater, and THE TRUTH ABOUT LOVE, a romantic comedy starring Jennifer Love-Hewitt. Rik … Continued

Catrin Clarke

A talented Cardiff-based writer, Catrin’s returning TV drama credits include MISTRESSES and CASUALTY. She wrote on CBBC’s BAFTA nominated series WOLFBLOOD and also completed one episode of LOVE ME / CARI FI for Touchpaper and S4C. In 2012 she participated in the BBC CASUALTY Writers Shadow Scheme and wrote two episodes for Series 3 of … Continued

Stephen M Collins

Stephen is one of the co-creators of CBBC’s BAFTA-winning sketch series CLASS DISMISSED, and has written on all seasons. He has written on SO BEANO for The Connected Set and Beano Studios, plus wrote on the most recent series of HORRIBLE HISTORIES for Lion TV/CBBC, and ODDBODS for One Animation. He has most recently written … Continued

Sarah Courtauld

Sarah is a comedy writer, performer, and award-winning author of children’s books. In 2012 she won the Funny Women Comedy Writing Award for her script THE SLUSH PILE, and she was the recipient of the BAFTA/Rocliffe New Writing Forum. She is a graduate of the Royal Court Young Writers Programme. Sarah wrote multiple episodes across … Continued

Lucy Daniel Raby

Lucy is an experienced and versatile children’s writer in TV, film, books and theatre. In television she has worked on a variety of award winning shows for for companies such as Henson’s, Aardman, HiT Entertainment, CBBC and CITV. She created the live action kids’ comedy drama series for 8-12 year olds, BIG KIDS, for CBBC, … Continued

Kirstie Falkous

Kirstie, a writer, creative producer, and script doctor, has significantly contributed to the entertainment industry alongside her writing partner John Regier. Their expertise played a crucial role in shaping the first seven seasons of Doc Martin, the highest-rated drama on British TV, which also gained popularity in the US and inspired adaptations in seven countries. … Continued

Tom Gran & Martin Woolley

Tom Gran & Martin Woolley are a BAFTA winning writer/director duo specialising in animation, who write high-concept comedy and love making stuff for both adult and younger audiences. Shortly after university, they were taken under the wing of Wildseed Studios and together developed and made pilots for adult animated series RAJESH FINESS (starring Sanjeev Bhaskhar) … Continued

James Hamilton

James is a multi-award-winning comedy & animation writer, story editor and sketch comedian. He moved to Los Angeles from London in 2019 to work as story editor (head writer) and co-developer of Netflix Animation’s Dogs In Space. He has recently worked as story editor on Netflix’s YA horror-fantasy series Jentry Chau vs The World, EP’d … Continued

Brydie Lee-Kennedy

Brydie Lee-Kennedy is an Australian screenwriter based between London and Sydney. She has written extensively for television and other media in Australia, the UK and America. She was BAFTA nominated for her work on THE AMAZING WORLD OF GUMBALL (Cartoon Network), where she served as story editor. Recently she has been a staff writer on … Continued

Claire Miller

Claire Miller is an experienced Drama Scriptwriter and Script Editor. As a Scriptwriter, Claire writes regularly for BBC’s CASUALTY, and wrote the finale for the show’s 30th anniversary year. She has written across multiple series of CBBC’S THE DUMPING GROUND and THE WORST WITCH, and also wrote multiple episodes for HOLBY CITY and EASTENDERS. Claire … Continued

Simon Nicholson

Simon Nicholson has written for film, theatre and television and has worked extensively in children’s TV. His recent credits include head writing PJ MASKS for Entertainment One / Disney. Simon is currently working on the development of a new pre-school series for Apple TV, head writing on a new animated series for Mikros Animation and … Continued

Emma Nisbet

Emma Nisbet is an experienced comedy scriptwriter, with a background in comedy development and production.   She has developed original comedy projects with Fremantle’s Retort, NBC Universal’s Lucky Giant, BBC Comedy, and CBBC, and has been commissioned to adapt a high profile children’s book series.   Recent credits include writing on LAGGING for CBBC, as … Continued

Allan Plenderleith

Allan is a BAFTA winning Head Writer, Showrunner, Development Producer and Director who has worked in the Children’s Animation and Live Action space for over 20 years in linear as well as digital and interactive. Working as a Creative Consultant/Development Producer, Allan has been a part of many top-rated shows such as Noddy, Thomas, Deer … Continued