In addition to our top three finalists, theF ORUM LIST includes BAFTA Rocliffe patrons include: three additional projects. To contact any of the writers, simply Jenni Konner, Christine Langan, Julian Fellowes, John Madden, Mike Newell, BAFta ROCLIFFE NEW WrITING email [email protected] with your details and we will connect Richard Eyre, David Parfitt, Cameron you with them. McCracken, Peter Kosminsky, David Yates, SHOWcaSE Ð TV COMEDY 2016 Finola Dwyer, Michael Kuhn, Nik Powell, FRENEMIES by Paul Wilson Duncan Kenworthy, Rebecca OÕBrien, TUESDAY 21 JUNE 2016 No break-up is easy. But if two people can make each other Simon Relph, Sue Perkins, John Bishop and Dave Spikey. BAFTA 195 PIccaDILLY, LONDON W1J 9LN unhappy when they’re together, imagine the pain they can inflict when they’re apart. Rocliffe Producer and Moderator GALGOROTH by Alex Harvey FaraH ABUSHWESHA Parodic animated comedy series, spoofing ‘80s sci-fi/fantasy cartoons, [email protected] coupling puerile humour with epic storylines and satire: South Park BAFTA Producers meets He-man. JULIA CarrUTHERS [email protected] HELP by Sally Tatum & David Brain KAM KANDOLA FLYNN HELP is the story of what happens when your best friend becomes [email protected] your nanny. Rocliffe Producer JADE GrEEN [email protected] KEVIN CECIL is a writer and After becoming neither FaraH ABUSHWESHA runs A huge thank you to our script selection panelists and jurors. Casting script editor. He won an Emmy, an electrical engineer nor Rocliffe and is the Director FaYE TIMBY a Writer’s Guild of America an actor, multi-BAFTA of Content for the comedy The Jury [email protected] award and a Writer’s Guild of nominated ADAM TANDY platform PYPO. She produced ANDREW NEWMAN (CHAIR) Founder, Spelthorne Community Television. Producer, Artwork Great Britain award for his work joined the BBC as a studio Danny Huston’s The Last Toast of London, Peep Show, Big Bad World, Fresh Meat KatY EDELSTEN KatE DaUGHTON Commissioning Editor BBC Comedy [email protected] on Veep. Other credits include floor assistant and ended up as Photograph; The Party, an Irish DaVID QUANTIck Writer, The Thick of It, Veep, TV Burp, Rob Brydon Show Tracey Ullman’s Show, Billionaire the production executive for Film Board commission to KEVIN CECIL Writer, Tracey UllmanÕs Show, Veep, The Boy in the Dress, Black Books, Music Little Britain RUPErt CROSS Boy, David Walliams and Friend, comedy programmes such as celebrate the centenary of the SaSKIA ScHUSTER Commissioning Editor, ITV Comedy, Plebs, Benidorm, c/o Air Edel Associates Gnomeo and Juliet, The Boy in Absolutely Fabulous, Fist of Fun, 1916 Easter Rising; Pinewood Birds of a Feather LAUra NakHLA the Dress, The Armando Iannucci and The Fast Show. At some Studio’s Pressure with Danny RICHarD WatSHAM Director of Commissioning, UKTV, Red Dwarf, Undercover, [email protected] Hoff the Record, Crackanory Shows, Black Books, The Great point in the nineties he started Huston and Matthew Goode JIM FIELD SMITH Director, Stag, The Wrong Mans, Episodes and writer, Fur TV, Outdoors, Hyperdrive and Little working with Armando and teen thriller Don’t Hang Up. Death Wish Live Find us on Facebook Britain. He is writing a film Iannucci and credits include She is the author of the Amazon ASH AtaLLA Managing Director, Roughcut TV, Cuckoo, People Just Do Nothing, Trollied BAFTA WILL SHarpE Writer, actor & director, Flowers BAFTA Rocliffe New Writing Forum for Universal and Point Grey. Saturday Night Armistice, The best seller Rocliffe Notes and is Gnomeo and Juliet 2 is currently Armando Iannucci Shows, I’m writing her second book on low The Panel Follow us on Twitter in production in London and Alan Partridge, Time Trumpet, budget filmmaking. 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SUSAN JacOBSON Director, Pistachio Pictures JANEttE LINDEN Agent, PBJ Management EMMA ObaNK Casarotto HOLLIE EbDON Agent, Ebdon Management MUZZ KHAN Actor PHIL NICHOL Comedian SaUrabH Kakkar Head of Development Comedy, bigtalkproductions, Dirk Gently, White Van Man SaM MICHELL TV and Radio Producer, BBC People Time, In and Out of the Kitchen L LOVE YOU JEFF POKE THE BEar THE FLOP ove you Jeff by DOMINIQUE REID by ADAM LaVIS by SHAUN KItcHENER [email protected] [email protected] Agent: Curtis Brown, [email protected] Directed by DaVID FrEEDMAN Directed by IaN ARYEH Directed by SAM WaSHINGTON [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Following her husband Jeff’s death, mother of three Four friends frustrated with their self-consciously cool A penniless ex-pop star swaps the London lifestyle for Karen tries to get her family’s life back on track; city run a blog called Angry Bear, providing her parent’s house in suburban Derbyshire, reuniting tackling nemesis Genevieve, her mother-in-law ‘bad publicity’ for self-proclaimed trendy hotspots. with everyone she alienated on her way to the top. and workplace antics. ADAM LaVIS graduated in 2010 with a SHAUN KItcHENER’s debut play Positive DOMINIQUE REID only this year decided 1st in screenwriting from Southhampton performed at Park Theatre in 2015 and was to take the plunge and enter screenwriting Solent University. In the 2015 Nickelodeon Offie-nominated for Most Promising New competitions. International Writers Program he was placed Playwright. He attended Royal Court New thePoke Bear as a top two finalist. Adam now writes full Writers’ Group 2013-14, Soho Theatre Writers’ CAST time and is currently co-creating the comedy Lab 2014-15, and London Film School’s Serial Narrator web series Sparebnb. and Continuing Drama 2014-15; and also LIAM HOURIcaN produces, writes for and acts in a quarterly OÕSullivan Ð The Actors Agent CAST new writing night, Briefs, at Waterloo East Fran/Van Waiter/Peter/Narrator Theatre since 2013. 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