A huge thank you to our script selection BAFTA Rocliffe patrons include: panellists and judges. They included: Christine Langan, Julian Fellowes, John Madden, Mike Newell, Richard Eyre, BAFTA ROCLIFFE David Parfitt, Peter Kosminsky, David Yates, The Jury Finola Dwyer, Michael Kuhn, Nik Powell, NEW WRITING SHOWCASE Ð Duncan Kenworthy, Rebecca OÕBrien, Sue KEVIN CECIL Writer (Chair) Perkins, John Bishop, Greg Brenmer, Olivia TIM ALLSOP Spelthorne Community Hetreed, Andy Patterson and Andy Harries. TELEVISION COMEDY 2019 SARAH ASANTE BBC Comedy MONDAY 24 JUNE 2019 // BAFTA 195 PICCADILLY, LONDON W1J 9LN MANDEEP DHILLON Actress Rocliffe Producers TILUSHA GELANI Sky CATHERINE FREEMAN [email protected] MORWENNA GORDON Commissioning Editor, Sky FARAH ABUSHWESHA NERYS EVANS KAYLEIGH LLEWELLYN CATHERINE GOSLING FULLER Producer [email protected] Nerys Evans is a producer and Kayleigh Llewellyn is a screenwriter whose SIAN HARRIES Writer and Actor BAFTA Producer director who worked for many career began when she won the BAFTA AKEMNJI NDIFORNYEN Actor, Writer and Producer JULIA CARRUTHERS years at Channel 4 where she Rocliffe New Comedy Writing award in 2012 JON PETRIE Channel 4 [email protected] was Deputy Head of Comedy. with Matthew Barry. Since then she has been LARA SINGER Big Talk Productions Directors During her time there she named as a Broadcast Hot Shot, and in 2016 was PETE THORNTON UKTV IAN ARYEH [email protected] commissioned award-winning series including: selected as one of six LGBTQ filmmakers for TOBY WELCH Producer NOUR WAZZI Catastrophe, Flowers, Derry Girls, Damned, Scrotal the BFI Flare Mentorship Programme, where [email protected] Recall and The Windsors. Prior to C4 she worked she is being mentored by Abi The Panel ELLA JONES [email protected] for BBC Comedy where she produced Miranda, Morgan. Kayleigh’s original dark

TONY COOKE Writer (Chair) Artwork Jonathan Creek and French and Saunders. She is comedy, In My Skin, has been FURQUAN AKHTAR Writer DERMOT FLYNN currently working as Director of Comedy at greenlit to series by BBC Three LUCY ARDITTI Comedy Script Editor www.dermotflynn.com Expectation Entertainment. and BBC Wales and is set to HOLLIE EBDON Agent, Ebdon Management Casting Director air in spring 2020. She also has ELAINE GRACIE Writer FAYE TIMBY HOLLY WALSH several other projects currently being developed [email protected] SUSAN JACOBSON Director, Pistachio Pictures Holly Walsh’s stand-up credentials were for broadcasters, and has previously written for KAYLEIGH LLEWELLYN Writer Music established with her 2008 Best Newcomer win Casualty (BBC 1), Stella (Sky 1) and The Dumping C/O ALICE ATKINSON - AIR EDEL NAT LUURTSEMA Writer, Director and actress [email protected] at the Chortle Awards and confirmed with an Ground (CBBC). HELENA MURPHY Development Executive, Hartswood Films Edinburgh Comedy Award nomination three EMMA OBANK Comedy Assistant Agent, Casarotto years later for her debut Fringe show, Hollycopter. Find us on Facebook NICOLE PAGLIA Writer BAFTA She is currently working on scripts for a number HUGH SACHS Actor BAFTA Rocliffe New Writing Forum of major broadcasters including co-writing the

Follow us on Twitter BBC sitcom Motherland with Sharon Horgan, @rocliffeforum Graham Linehan and Helen Linehan. Holly is @BAFTA also the creator of The Other Sign up for BAFTA news and events at One, which is due to be filmed www.bafta.org this summer. Holly has featured on many of the top TV comedy BAFTA and Rocliffe request that attendees shows including Live At The do not solicit industry guests with copies Apollo, QI and Mock The Week. of their scripts, projects or CVs, or request contact details. BAFTA and Rocliffe cannot provide contact details of attendees. DAISY & ROBBIE NU-BRITANNIA LUNCH BREAK Survive to Struggle & Robbie Daisy STRUGGLE TO SURVIVE by AMEIR BROWN by STEVE WHYLEY & MICHAEL WHEELER by FRANCESCA FOWLER & KATIE REDFORD Directed by NOUR WAZZI Directed by ELLA JONES Composer ROSHAN GUNGA Composer ROSHAN GUNGA Directed by IAN ARYEH Composer ANDREA BOCCADORO Moving to London to chase his dream, Anton finds the Three work colleagues escape the office at lunch to their path to success to be anything but easy for him and his favourite park bench where they question their lives and Daisy & Robbie Struggle to Survive centres around friends wading through life as millennial Black Brits. try not to kill each other. two chalk and cheese friends who find themselves face to face with death every weekend. AMEIR BROWN has been fascinated with story MICHAEL WHEELER completed a Screenwriting telling from a young age. From watching/reading MA at The London College of Communication KATIE REDFORD is an actress and writer Anansi stories, Dragonball Z, The Bible… his four years ago, as well as performing stand up from Nottingham. Last year, she co-wrote and curiosity was piqued and as he got older the desire comedy. STEVE WHYLEY has been writing for Nu-Britannia produced her first short film Ghosted starring to write became stronger. He taught himself the around 10 years and in that time has written a Alison Steadman, which was awarded the BFI basics of screenwriting, spending hours on the number of scripts, the most successful of which Network grant. FRANCESCA FOWLER started internet reading and downloading scripts and ended up being produced by a local production her career as an actress in 2004 and has been software to write his own. He’s written many company. Michael and Steve have known each working in TV/Film for fifteen years, turning shorts, features and pilots on spec while entering other since they were kids, but it was only during to screenwriting in 2010. In 2017 her genre competitions and studying film and screenwriting the last few years that they realised they both bending scifiantiromcomLove. Hate. Repeat was at both undergrad and postgrad level. He’s been shared a strong love of comedy and decided to shortlisted for Creative England Emerging Talent single-minded in his desire to make screenwriting write together. Fund. Katie and Fran have been writing together his full-time job and is looking forward to this since 2015. Their first script Party Princesses was unreal opportunity with BAFTA. CAST shortlisted for various writing competitions and Narrator/Yoga instructor was optioned in 2018. BAFTA Rocliffe is their CAST first award as a writing duo. MATT LACEY Driver/Music video'er/Narrator 1 Hatch Lunch Break Lunch Eva Lambert CAST PATRICK ELUE Denton Brierley CHARLY CLIVE Narrator/Sue Girl/Music video'er/Narrator 2 United Agents LUCY THACKERAY FELICITY DAVIDSON Daniel 'Dan' Okafor AHA Amanda Sarosi Associates CLIFFORD SAMUEL Daisy Anton The Artists Partnership THERICA WILSON-READ NATHAN QUEELEY-DENNIS Porter aka The Arsehole Olivia Bell Stanton Davidson GREG MCHUGH Robbie Jet Julian ARG SERAPHINA BEH JIM CAESAR Waring and McKenna United Agents Tarquin - Ziggy Dami Odinake/Music video'er AMERJIT DEU TOHEEB JIMOH Apollo Associates Troika Viv - Zach & Man Older Black Man/Policeman PETER SINGH RICHARD PEPPLE United Agents IAG Sindi - Jemima Homeless man/Cornershop boss/Policeman RENU BRINDLE SIMON JENKINS TCG Revolution Talent