BAFTA Rocliffe New Writing Forum, Now in Its and Soho House NY for Supporting This Initiative
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A huge thank you to our script selection panel for taking the time BAFTA Rocliffe patrons include: to read every script and select the writers. They included Andrew Jenni Konner, Christine Langan, Julian Fellowes, John Madden, Mike Newell, BAFTA ROCLIFFE Newman, Ben Taylor, Caryn Mandabach, Charlie Hanson, Richard Eyre, David Parfitt, Cameron Chris Sussman, Christine Gernon, Dave Mace, David Quantick, McCracken, Peter Kosminsky, David Yates, NEW WrITING ForUM Jennifer Saunders, Jessica Hynes, Jill Offman, Kenton Allen, Finola Dwyer, Michael Kuhn, Nik Powell, Duncan Kenworthy, Rebecca O'Brien, with The Office and Parks and Recreation creator GREG DANIELS Kevin Cecil, Margot Gavan Duffy, Matt King, Myfanwy Moore, Simon Relph, Sue Perkins, John Bishop Roberto Troni, Saskia Schuster, Saurabh Kakkar, Don Taffner Jnr, and Dave Spikey. WEDNESDAY 23 OCtobER 2O13 Ben Wasserstein and Tom Anderson. At THE NEW YorK TELEVISION FESTIVAL, SVA THEAtrE, 333 WEST 23rd StrEET, NYC Presenter and Rocliffe Producer With sincere thanks to the New York Television Festival, BAFTA FARAH AbUSHWESHA New York, Academy Circle, British Airways, Langham Place, [email protected] Alistair Dixon, Anne Popkin, The Galashan Trust, Rachel Smith Event Producers The BAFTA Rocliffe New Writing Forum, now in its and Soho House NY for supporting this initiative. ALEX CooK [email protected] fourteenth year, is a platform for new writing and a networking KAM KANdoLA FLYNN BAFTA and Rocliffe request that attendees do not solicit industry guests [email protected] event. Three script extracts from yet-to-be-commissioned with copies of their scripts or projects. BAFTA and Rocliffe cannot KAREN ARIKIAN [email protected] writers are selected by an industry panel from an open call out. provide contact details of attendees. JULIA CArrUTHERS [email protected] Casting ack in April, BAFTA and Rocliffe Emmy for The Office episode ‘Gay Witch Hunt’, KATE MUrrAY set out in search of the UK’s most and has also won Emmys for his work on The [email protected] promising new comedy writers as Simpsons, King of the Hill and Saturday Night Live, Rocliffe Development Coordinator part of a nationwide competition and was nominated for a Writers Guild Award StEPHEN CASEY for brand new talent. Three scripts for his Seinfeld episode ‘The Parking Space’. [email protected] Bwere ultimately selected to be showcased in front Director of the cream of the US television industries at FARAH ABUSHWESHA is a SUSAN JACobSON [email protected] the New York International Television Festival. writer, producer and founder Five promising writers, Brona C Titley, Tony of the BAFTA Rocliffe New Artwork CARLO CrESCINI Cooke, Stewart Thomson, Lizzie Bates and Anna Writing Forums. She writes www.carlocrescini.com Emerson have flown to New York courtesy of the popular blog Farah’s Rocliffe Composers courtesy of Air Edel British Airways, and tonight extracts of their work Notes. She has worked in CHANTELLE WoodNUT will be performed in front of Greg Daniels – film production for many years, forthcoming [email protected] creator of Parks and Recreation and American The productions include Pressure with Danny Huston Rehearsal space courtesy of Office – who will give the writers feedback and and Matthew Goode and Suite Francaise with JULIE GRIbbLE guidance on their work. Michelle Williams and Kristen Scott Thomas. www.nymediaworks.com She is a champion of new screen talent and has GREG DANIELS is best known worked on many acclaimed directorial debuts Find us on Facebook for developing The Office for including Rowan Athale’s The Rise, BAFTA BAFTA BAFTA Rocliffe New Writing Forum NBC, and co-creating Parks and nominee Tom Harper’s The Scouting Book for Boys Recreation and King of the Hill. He and Tom Schkolnik’s The Comedian and has run Follow us on Twitter @rocliffeforum was the initial showrunner for all talks and lectures in Dublin, Dubai, London, San @BAFTA three series. In 2007 Greg won an Diego and Johannesburg. @BAFTAGuru Sign up for BAFTA news and events at www.bafta.org www.bafta.org/newyork NANNIES by BroNA C TITLEY & TONY CooKE Music by DANIEL ELMS c/o Air Edel Maisie and four other underpaid, overworked child minders on her exclusive street, are paid to parent the next generation of the ridiculously rich. Brona C Titley (aged 32) is Tony Cooke (aged 35) is a an actress and comedy writer comedy writer from London NEW HABITS SKWIBS from Dublin, currently living and lives in Enfield. He studied by LIZZIE BATES & ANNA EMERSON by STEWArt THOMSON in Walthamstow in London. Geography at Nottingham Music by MAttHEW StrACHAN c/o Air Edel Music by CHRIS GREEN c/o Air Edel She studied Drama and English University and did a postgraduate at Trinity College Dublin, and course in Journalism at Cardiff When Sister Adie decides she’s quitting the convent, The story of Francis Falkirk, a medium and spiritual Professional Acting at LAMDA. Brona’s first University. In 2006 he was a finalist in the Jules helps her get to grips with life as a single woman detective on a mission to release the spirits of the play Effigy won Best New Writing at ISDA, BBC’s Last Laugh sitcom writing competition, in the big city. restless dead. went on a full national stage tour and was and since then he has written for both comedy produced by RTE Radio 1. Brona was the and children’s TV shows. His comedy credits Lizzie Bates and Anna Stewart Thomson (aged co-writer/performer of comedy Jobless Satisfaction include The Armstrong & Miller Show, Mumbai Emerson (both aged 30) are 34) was raised in Milngavie, (Edinburgh, Dublin, Portlaoise) and the Calling, Dead Ringers, The Kumars at No. 42 and comedy writers and actresses who near Glasgow. He graduated co-creator/writer of Desperate, a sitcom pilot commissioned original sitcom scripts for BBC have been working together since from the National Film and script for BBC Comedy. Brona writes/performs One and BBC Three. His kids’ credits include 2006. Lizzie is originally from Television School in 2008, before in online comedy sketches such as The Potential The Revolting World of Stanley Brown, Hounded, Ashendon in Buckinghamshire returning home to Glasgow. Wives of Prince Harry, which was a finalist for and BAFTA-nominated episodes of The Legend and now lives in Bethnal Green, His graduation short animation, Bill’s Visitors, BeActive Digital Comedy Award in 2012. Also of Dick and Dom and Diddy Movies. In 2009 he east London. Anna was raised in was nominated for a BAFTA Scotland Award in 2012 Brona wrote The Parlour, a new pilot was shortlisted for the Breakthrough Talent Thame, Oxfordshire and now in 2008. The following year, Parliamo Glasgow, script for Grand Pictures. Award at the British Academy Children’s Awards. lives in Holloway, north London. his first television commission (part of Channel The pair both studied at Bristol 4’s Coming Up initiative) was nominated for a University. As two-thirds of BAFTA Scotland New Talent Award. Stewart’s sketch trio The Boom Jennies, Lizzie Bates and feature Beating the Drum is currently being Anna Emerson have taken several critically- developed by BBC Films and Creative Scotland. acclaimed shows to the Edinburgh Fringe and Rocket Surgery, a comedy feature has recently featured in hit BBC Radio 4 show Sketchorama. been selected for lo-fi, the Scottish low-budget In 2012, The Boom Jennies co-wrote and film initiative, and will go into production later co-starred in their debut BBC Radio 4 sitcom, this year. Mission Improbable, and a second series is due for broadcast in 2014. Lizzie has played a zombie princess in the short film Misguided and starred in the pilot for primetime BBC One hidden camera show Richard Hammond’s Secret Service. Anna is a frequent feature of cult podcast The John Dredge Nothing To Do With Anything Show and is due to star in her first solo show, An Evening With Patti DuPont, at this year’s Camden Fringe..