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Bafta Rocliffe New Writing Showcase – Tv Comedy 2018 A huge thank you to our script selection panelists BAFTA Rocliffe patrons include: and judges. They included: Jenni Konner, Christine Langan, Julian Fellowes, John Madden, Mike Newell, BAFTA ROCLIFFE Richard Eyre, David Parfitt, Peter Kosminsky, 2018 TV Comedy Jury David Yates, Finola Dwyer, Michael Kuhn, NEW WRITING SHOWCASE Ð CHAIR CHRIS SUSSMAN Head of Comedy, BBC Studios Nik Powell, Duncan Kenworthy, Rebecca MODERATOR FARAH ABUSHWESHA Producer, Rocliffe OÕBrien, Sue Perkins, John Bishop, Greg TIM ALLSOP Head of Comedy and Entertainment, Spelthorne Community Brenmer, Olivia Hetreed, Andy Patterson TV COMEDY 2018 DANE BAPTISTE Writer and Comedian and Andy Harries. KEVIN CECIL Writer MONDAY 2 JULY 2018 // BAFTA, 195 PICCADILLY, LONDON W1J 9LN EDDIE DOYLE Head of Content Production, BBC Northern Ireland MORWENNA GORDON Commissioning Editor, Sky Moderator and Rocliffe Producer HANNAH MACKAY Head of Scripted, Objective Fiction FARAH ABUSHWESHA JOE MCVEY Commissioning Executive, UKTV [email protected] AKEMNJI NDIFORNYEN Actor, Writer and Producer BARUNKA OÕSHAUGHNESSY Writer and Performer BAFTA Producer ROBERT LINDSAY FARAH JOHN POCOCK Producer JULIA CARRUTHERS POPPER is an HUGHES ABUSHWESHA, LARA SINGER Development Producer, Big Talk Productions [email protected] award-winning established a BAFTA- KAM KANDOLA- FLYNN writer, producer the British nominated 2018 TV Comedy Panel Industry Specialist and performer. independent producer and LUCY ARDITTI Comedy Script Editor, UKTV He is the production best selling JESSE CLEVERLY Producer Casting Director TONY COOKE Writer FAYE TIMBY creator, writer and producer of company Baby Cow alongside author, is a champion of new HOLLIE EBDON Agent, Ebdon Management [email protected] Channel 4’s Friday Night Henry Normal and Steve talent. Farah is currently ELAINE GRACIE Writer Dinner, he co-created and Coogan, where she Executive producing The ABC Murders for LONDON HUGHES Comedian, Actor Casting Assistant SUSAN JACOBSON Director, Pistachio Pictures BOBBY RAINSBURY starred in BBC 2’s Look Around Produced numerous hit shows, BBC and Amazon. Her most JANETTE LINDON Agent, PBJ Management You with Peter Serafinowicz, including Gavin and Stacey, recent feature films include KAYLEIGH LLEWELLYN Writer Artwork produced the BAFTA-winning Nighty Night, The Mighty Boosh Netflix Original Irreplacable CARIAD LLOYD Actor, Comedian, Writer DERMOT FLYNN DAN MARCH Comedian www.dermotflynn.com Peep Show, wrote on season 14 and The Shadow Line. You with Gugu Mbatha-Raw, HELEN MURPHY Development Exec of South Park, and script-edited Michiel Huismann, Christopher EMMA OBANK Comedy Assistant Agent, Casarotto Music c/o The Inbetweeners and The IT Lindsay also works closely Walken and Steve Coogan NICOLE PAGLIA Writer ALICE ATKINSON Ð AIR EDEL [email protected] Crowd. Robert also wrote the with the Teenage Cancer and Danny Huston’s The Last bestselling The Timewaster Letters Trust, organising large scale Photograph. She is the founder of books under his pseudonym, annual Comedy Galas. the BAFTA Rocliffe Find us on Facebook Robin Cooper. Recently, he New Writing Showcase. Farah BAFTA co-wrote several episiodes has produced comedy content BAFTA Rocliffe New Writing Forum of Channel 4’s new comedy, for the White House (under Follow us on Twitter Stath Lets Flats, with Jamie the Obama Administration). @rocliffeforum Demetriou. @BAFTA Sign up for BAFTA news and events at www.bafta.org BAFTA and Rocliffe request that attendees do not solicit industry guests with copies of their scripts or projects. BAFTA and Rocliffe cannot provide contact details of attendees. THE GENTRIFIERS THE SECOND COMING SHAM The Gentrifiers by ANNA BROOK-MITCHELL by NOAH JAMES & JORDAN MAXWELL by TOM GLOVER & ANGELA NESI Directed by SUSAN JACOBSON Directed by NAT LUURTSEMA Directed by NOUR WAZZI Composer GARETH MURPHY Composer GARETH MURPHY Harry has to extricate himself from a sham marriage The Second Coming has come upon the world, in to an Indian heritage lesbian in order to marry his An insecure Estate Agent, who moved to gentrified Bolton of all places, however it’s not the messiah boyfriend. G Street to forget her past, stupidly sells the property everyone expected. opposite to her old school nemesis. TOM GLOVER trained at Hull and completed NOAH JAMES and JORDAN MAXWELL are an an MA in Playwriting under David Edgar at ANNA BROOK-MITCHELL and ANGELA NESI award-winning comedy duo. They have created Birmingham university. His plays include: Born have been writing and performing sketches, successful online pilots VLOG and Daydreamers, to Be Mild (Yvonne Arnaud studio), Lights, songs and character comedy together for nine both short listed as Dailymotion Pilot Finalists Camera, Walkies (Gilded Balloon Edinburgh), Coming Second The years. They created a narrative sketch show in 2015 & 2014. Their five part online comedy England Expects (The Curve, Kings’ Head) and for Edinburgh in 2016, which was inspired by web series Wannabes scored several nominations Wet Bread (Tristan Bates, Kings Head, various). the changes in their local area and lead to the and awards including Best Comedy at Miami He was runner up in the BBC All Mixed Up development of The Gentrifiers TV sitcom script. WebFest and Most Promising UK Series at UK sitcom competition and joint winner of the They also wrote and performed in Sketchy as WebFest. Their debut live show Wheel Of Sketch Trans-Comedy Award. His short film Textual F*CK; a sitcom/sketch show hybrid produced was selected for the Best Newcomers category at Relationship was screened at the BFI and won by Show’em Entertainment. They are currently London Sketchfest. Their online sketches have awards nationally and internationally. Current working on a comedy horror short with a been shared by Funny or Die, Viral Thread & projects include: Bin and Gone (Brighton Fringe) feminist slant. British comedy guide and have amassed over a and Beneath the Blue Rinse (Offbeat Festival). million views on social media. CAST CAST Tania Vitiello CAST Greg Sham HOLLY BURN Tim ROB TAYLOR-HASTINGS PBJ Management KIERAN KNOWLES C/O Rocliffe Michaela Pye Jonathan Arun Harry SHARON D CLARKE Bob HARKI BHAMBRA Scott Marshall PEARL MACKIE Independent Talent Quillie United Agents Claire/Suzie ROSE JOHNSON Barbara NICOLA WREN Curtis Brown CAROLINE WILDI United Agents Male Narrator ML International Talent Waiter/GregÕs work colleague KAE KURD Arthur ALEXANDER NAIR UTC Artist Management SAM HOARE WintersonÕs Judith The Artists Partnership Narrator/Man on date/GregÕs colleague LYNSEY BEAUCHAMP Old Lady/Narrator GABRIEL LO GIUDICE Keddie Scott Associates ROSA HESMONDHALGH Officine Artistiche Narrow Road.
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