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

Adam Redfern

Adam is a BAFTA-winning Writer, Showrunner and Creative with more than 15 years’ experience in Children’s TV and Media. Adam was recently head writer on a new pre-school animation MINIBODS with One Animation, and is currently writing on another animated series for them. He’s also writing on two animated specials for Hello Halo, and previously … Continued

Paul Rice

Paul Rice most recently co-directed 11 episodes of Cartoon Network’s hugely successful, multiple BAFTA and Emmy-winning The Amazing World Of Gumball. Having worked for 6 years on over 200 episodes of the show, he has been intimately involved in almost every aspect of it. This includes writing, storyboard, layout, backgrounds, animation and compositing. He was … Continued

Jessica Silcock & Naomi Smith

Jessica Silcock and Naomi Smith are a Manchester-based comedy writing partnership. They were finalists in the BBC’s “Jesting About 2” competition, and received mentorship from BBC Comedy producers. They have previously developed original ideas with NBC Universal’s comedy division Lucky Giant and BBC3, and have written on BBC3 comedy PRAMFACE. They have previously written sketch … Continued

Rob Sprackling

Rob Sprackling is an experienced screenwriter and award-winning writer/director working across comedy, live action and animation. He is currently developing a comedy horror feature based on his award winning short film RISE OF THE APPLIANCES, which he wrote and directed (British Horror Award at the British Horror Film Festival 2011, Best Horror Comedy at the … Continued

Steve Turner

Steve is an experienced scriptwriter who has developed original comedy ideas with a number of producers, including Hat Trick Productions, the BBC, and NBC Universal / Lucky Giant. His 6 x 40-minute original sitcom YOU, ME & THEM was commissioned by UKTV’s Gold as their first original sitcom and premiered in 2013, produced by Hat Trick … Continued

Andrew Viner

Emmy-nominated writer Andrew Viner has written for a range of children’s TV, radio comedy shows, and also writes adult comedy. He won one of six places offered on the BBC’s inaugural College of Comedy scheme, beating over 3,000 other applicants. The BBC optioned an original comedy idea of his as part of the scheme, and … Continued

Carol Walsh

Carol Walsh is a Dublin-based writer who got her start as a storyliner on the long-running RTÉ soap, FAIR CITY. Here, she contributed to the story team for several years and was also the scriptwriter for three episodes over 2015/ 2016. In 2016, Carol won the Funny Women Comedy Writing Award and was prompted to … Continued

Diane Whitley

Diane is an experienced scriptwriter, showrunner, script editor and producer. She recently worked as head writer on MOOMINVALLEY, a heritage brand with Gutsy Animation for Sky. She worked as development producer and head writer/showrunner on Series 1 and 2 of the RTS and BAFTA nominated hit gothic teen drama, HOUSE OF ANUBIS, which Lime Pictures … Continued

Tobi Wilson

Comedy writer Tobi Wilson recently worked as a Senior Writer on Cartoon Network’s THE AMAZING WORLD OF GUMBALL, now in it’s seventh series, having written across six of them. Tobi was part of the writing team on GUMBALL who won the 2013, 2016 and 2019 Children’s BAFTA Award for writing, plus the 2014 and 2017 … Continued