A huge thank you to our script selection BAFTA Rocliffe patrons include: panellists and judges. They included: Christine Langan, Julian Fellowes, John BAFTA ROCLIFFE Madden, Mike Newell, Richard Eyre, David Parfitt, Peter Kosminsky, David Yates, NEW WRITING SHOWCASE Ð 2020 Comedy Jury Finola Dwyer, Michael Kuhn, Duncan Kenworthy, Rebecca OÕBrien, Sue Perkins, BEN CAUDELL Comedy Commissioniong Editor, BBC John Bishop, Greg Brenmer, Olivia Hetreed, TV COMEDY 2020 Andy Patterson and Andy Harries. CATHERINE WILLIS Casting Director, The Duchess, Flowers DANIEL LAWRENCE TAYLOR Actor & Writer, Hunderby, Timewasters TUESDAY 3 NOVEMBER 2020 ELLA JONES Director, Enterprise, Fully Blown Rocliffe Producer KEVIN CECIL Writer, Veep, Year of the Rabbit FARAH ABUSHWESHA LARA SINGER Development Producer, Big Talk [email protected] MATTHEW BARRY JOANNA SCANLAN LOIS GRATION Creative Assistant, Original Series UK, Netflix BAFTA Producer is a Rocliffe alumni and PETE THORNTON Head of Scripted, UKTV JULIA CARRUTHERS is a BAFTA-nominated [email protected] Broadcast Hotshot whose actor and writer whose SASKIA SCHUSTER Head of Scripted, Fulwell 73 writing credits include credits include Getting On, TANYA QURESHI Head of Comedy, Various Artist Ltd Rocliffe Development Exec Netflix’s Chilling Adverntures TIM ALLSOP Head of Comedy & Entertainment, ZSOFIA SZEMEREDY No Offence and How to [email protected] of Sabrina, EastEnders and Build a Girl. She also had a Spelthorne Community Television Cucumber/Banana. production company with 2020 Comedy Panel Director SUSAN JACOBSON Vicki Pepperdine called [email protected] George & George Co. ADAM LAVIS Director, SpareBNB, Pitch Invaders ALICE SEABRIGHT Writer & Director, Chloe, Sex Education Audio-Visual Engineer IAN THRELFALL ALICE OJHA Development & Production Assistant, Searchlight Pictures [email protected] ANJLI MOHINDRA Actor, Bodyguard, Dr Who BEN FARRELL FARAH ABUSHWESHA ANNA EMERSON Writer, Mission Improbable, Sketchtopia Casting Director FAYE TIMBY (MODERATOR) CHARLIE COOMBES Scripted Development Producer, Beano Studios is Chief Creative Officer [email protected] at Objective Fiction and a Producer for CHARLIE PERKINS Head of Comedy, Blink Industries BAFTA-nominated producer Irreplaceable You, DAVE COHEN Comedy Writer & Coach, Author, Podcaster, Sitcom Geeks Composer C/O ALICE ATKINSON - AIR EDEL The ABC Murders, ELAINE GRACIE Writer & Actor, End-O whose credits include Feel [email protected] Good, Year of the Rabbit and The Singapore Grip and BFI IAN ARYEH Director, In The Long Run Tracey Ullman’s Show. Vision Awards recipient. JACK GILCHRIST Junior Agent, Casarotto Ramsey & Associates GEORGE KANE Director, Timewasters Find us on Facebook HELENA MURPHY Development Executive, Hartswood Films BAFTA HOLLIE EBDON Director, Ebdon Management BAFTA Rocliffe New Writing Forum

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Wang and Judge Rinder. She also writes for science presenter, and nuclear engineer, which ban short Gerry’s Voice played at London Short Linsell Alistair papers including the Metro and the Telegraph, is something of a portfolio career. He is best Film Festival and the punk baby-naming trauma, produced unscripted TV and is the creator of known for Outrageous Acts of Science which El Rey at Manchester Kinofilm. His semi- a photo series on Instagram raising awareness ran for 6 series and ranks in the top ten hour autobiographical Rat Tail was a finalist in Shore of invisible disability. Badass is her first sitcom, broadcasts in the history of the Science Channel. Scripts 2019 and he wrote an experimental written during lockdown and is inspired by He has written several sketch and narrative neck-based short Nape for the Film Hub North personal experience - “It’s fun to do stand up comedy shows which have been performed / BFI Network Northern Exposure scheme. His comedy around how my bum tried to kill me.” at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. He has had short script, Ten Men Stood in a Field in France, material broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra as part was long-listed for Enter the Pitch, developed of NewsJack. Darren and Shelley is his second pilot from his feature screenplay, Albion (a pacifist script, the first being Grey Hat, a sitcom that Shawshank, in Esperanto). He is currently follows a dysfunctional team of GCHQ hackers. completing comedy-horror spec-script Tobin’s Spirit Guide - anyone have Dan Aykroyd’s email? Christopher Maudsley

CAST 2020 SHORTLISTED WRITERS

MARK BONNAR ADAM GILLEN LUKE FROST Downhill Gordon and French Hatton McEwan Penford MATT ZEQIRI & OLIVER KINDEBERG Dummies AMER CHADHA-PATEL WERUCHE OPIA ALEXA BERRY I Really Want to Punch You Insight Management & Production Curtis Brown JACK HARRIS Leading the Blind SIAN CLIFFORD CHRIS WALLEY RAYNA CAMPBELL Marriage, Single, WTF? United Agents B-Side Management CAROLINE TOPOUZOGLOU & JASKARAN SAHOTA RON COOK KEDAR WILLIAMS-STIRLING Pearshaped Independent Talent 42 STEVE MONGER Rewind

SARAH HADLAND All writers can be contacted via [email protected] Independent Talent