Our enthusiastic team combines a wealth of professional skills and experience as writers, script editors, producers and directors. All are working within the industry, and many have additional teaching and guidance qualifications

Paul Bassett Davies is a writer, director and actor. He founded the Crystal Theatre, whose pioneering multimedia work was acclaimed in Britain and Europe. He created a series of one-man shows, two of which were Perrier Award finalists at the Edinburgh Festival. Other shows combined live performance with video and other media to create innovative theatrical experiments. Radio and television credits include: Spitting Image, Smith and Jones, Rory Bremner, Jasper Carrot and many more. He had his own series with Jeremy Hardy, and produced Sony Award winning BBC radio series Do Go On, which he wrote with Griff Rhys Jones and Graeme Garden using improvisation to create the scripts. He wrote the screenplay for The Magic Roundabout film and has a feature film in production based on comic book legends The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers.

Andrew Clifford is an extremely experienced script editor and writer (and sometime performer) both in drama and comedy.  Andrew started off as a script reader for Film 4 and Carlton and eventually joined the BBC where he worked as a script editor in the Single Drama/Film department.  He then went on to script edit a number of BBC series including the police dramas Backup and Dalziel and Pascoe, as well as story editing Dangerfield.  He has also script edited comedies including You Are Here, starring Matt Lucas and David Walliams.  As a writer, Andrew has written for Casualty and unfortunately Crossroads; as well as many comedy programmes, including Mr Bean, Smack the Pony and Smith and Jones.  He has also developed many near-miss sitcoms of his own.  He co-wrote and starred in his own Radio 4 show (Control Group Six) which was nominated for a Writers Guild award and has also worked on a number of childrens’ shows and animation.  One of his screenplays was optioned by Miramax and for one fleeting, glorious spring looked like it was actually going to get made.  It’s still doing the rounds and Andrew is currently working on other screenplays as well as developing dramas and comedies for television.  

Alan Denman is a commissioned writer, award-winning short film writer/director and ex-chair of the Screenwriters’ Workshop in London. He has taught extensively in the UK and EU and has given script consultancies in the US. In 2003, he directed his own feature script, a sci-fi thriller on location in California. Currently he is based in Los Angeles with several further projects in development.

Paul Gallagher began his writing career as a published poet and short story writer and was subsequently optioned, then commissioned to adapt a novel and a stage play. He set up and was CEO of Euroscript, an official EU MEDIA programme [96-02] which received funding from  Brussels for six years. For Euroscript he worked as script consultant and editor, developing film treatments and scripts with writers and production companies across Europe, promoting the best projects on for sale. Successful projects included: DuCain’s Boys, Mermaids & Money Troubles, Lifeline, Dark Rosaleen, French Fries, Metro, Heart and Soul, all of which were optioned and/or have gone into production.

He has run European residential script workshops in Greece, Portugal and France, as well as delivered workshops and talks at Edinburgh Festival, and international festivals in Glasgow, Belfast, Lisbon and London as well as being on Festival juries in Portugal and UK. He works as a writer and script consultant, set up the Screenwriters’ Workshop script report service Feedback, UK. He has taught at the London(International) Film School and is senior lecturer in scriptwriting and documentary on BA Film and Media, Birkbeck College, London University. He was Chair and for many years Head of the Workshop Programme at the Screenwriters’ Workshop and has been on the executive of the New Producers Alliance, UK. He has written for different film script magazines including Savvy, Screenwriter, and Filmwaves.

Fenella Greenfield was a trustee of the Screenwriters' Workshop for many years, helping to launch Euroscript as an SW European initiative. She has worked as both script editor and tutor for both organisations. She sits on the NPA (New Producers Alliance) Board representing screenwriters and serving on the Short Film committee.  She has written broadcast scripts for radio and television. She’s a TV promo director and has won awards both here and in the States for her work.  Check out her latest promos for June Sarpong on YouTube: Sally Dunn:  Accidental MP and A Blonde Moment.  Read a review in Time Out about her course the Absolute Beginners' Guide to How to Write a Screenplay.
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Charles Harris is an experienced award-winning writer-director who has worked with a number of the top names in cinema and TV, from James Stewart to Spike Milligan and Alexei Sayle. A film editor for BBC and Channel Four, he moved on to direct TV and theatre, winning awards around the world. His first professional feature script was optioned for production in Hollywood, and he has continued to write original and commissioned screenplays and publish acclaimed short stories. His first feature as director, Paradise Grove, won international awards and was nominated at the British Independent Film Awards.

As script consultant, Charles Harris has worked with professional writers from Britain, Europe, Asia and the USA, lectured at international film festivals and on MA courses at London University and London Film School. He is also a qualified Master Practitioner and Advanced Trainer of NLP which he uses in his teaching and consulting work. He also publishes regular articles on screenwriting on his blog 

Read a Scriptwriter Magazine review of one of Charles Harris's workshops.
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Gabriella Apicella’s first feature film script 'The Girlfriend Killers' is going into production in May 2009, and will be co-produced by DAMD Films Limited, of which she is Managing Director, with Alejandro Davalos directing.  From September 2009 she will be taking up a post as screenwriting lecturer at Birkbeck College, University of London.  Coming up early 2009 will be the premiere of a theatrical performance project inspired by 'Alice in Wonderland' written by Gabriella in collaboration with Producer Amie Shilan at SHUNT in London Bridge.  In addition, work continues on the jointly conceived script for an original feature film with Euroscript founder Paul Gallagher, set for production in 2011/12.

Ian Long is a writer and script consultant who has worked for the UK Film Council’s Premiere and New Cinema Funds, the Script Factory, Skillset and numerous independent producers. He recently set up an independent company to make short to mid-length films, starting by producing a short called 'Behind the Bar' from one of his own screenplays. As well as working on a range of short stories, he is currently researching a low budget futuristic feature set in post-industrial Surrey. Having started his career as an illustrator and designer, he still accepts occasional commissions for projects which interest him.

Kevan Tidy has many years of practical experience of the creative industries, first as a songwriter and musician and then as a specialist entertainment and intellectual property lawyer. He has worked as an in-house lawyer for Scottish TV and for several of the top national law firms. He was also one of the founders of the International Entertainment Division of Arthur Andersen, the largest legal practice in the world. For the past five years he has run his own specialist law firm, tidylaw.  His main aim as a lawyer is to ensure creatives get a fair deal. He will be pleased to answer questions on copyright and other forms of  intellectual  property, media and entertainment law,  how to read contracts and the pros and cons of setting up of companies.

James Bartlett is a writer and journalist living in Los Angeles. He is also a story analyst for Sundance, National Geographic Films, New Regency, UCLA and the Academy of Motion Pictures’ Nicholl Screenwriting Awards, as well as several regional funders in the UK and Ireland.

Matt Tromans is a writer, director and producer with a burgeoning list of credits on both commercially and critically successful feature films. After spending many years in Hollywood working with two time Academy Award nominee Nick Nolte, he recently returned to Europe where he continues to write, direct and develop high profile projects. His first film as a producer ‘Off The Black’, in association with Forensic Films NYC (Gummo, Julien Donkey Boy, Raising Victor Vargas), premiered strongly at the Sundance Film Festival and was subsequently picked up for Theatrical Distribution by Think Film. His most recent film as a producer starred Ewen Bremner (Trainspotting, Black Hawk Down), Dina Korzun (Last Resort, Forty Shades of Blue) and Nutsa Kukhianidze (Good Thief) and has recently been selected as Georgia’s official entry for the best foreign language category at the Academy Awards.

Matt has worked closely with internationally renowned writers and directors including Ang Lee, Neil Jordan and Olivier Assayas. He is an experienced reader and evaluator of scripts and believes strongly that an effective film begins with a good script. His debut short film as a writer/ director will shortly begin screening at major international film festivals where it is expected to perform strongly.