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.

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 overseeing the NPA Screenwriting Programme. 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.

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.  

Anne Woods is a freelance script consultant and commissioned screenwriter. As well as writing and directing her own short films, she has worked for the BBC and many independent production companies in the UK and Europe. As part of the Euroscript Consultancy team, she has taught on numerous Euroscript workshops and runs Script Surgeries both privately and within the Higher Education sector.

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) FilmSchool 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.

Charles Harris is an experienced writer-director and script consultant who has worked with a number of the top names in cinema and TV, from James Stewart and Ricky Tomlinson to Spike Milligan and Alexei Sayle. He first worked as a freelance film editor on BBC documentaries and light entertainment and The South Bank Show, then a director in theatre and TV, winning awards around the world. His first professional feature script was optioned for production in Hollywood, and since then he has continued to write original and adapted scripts for features, and published acclaimed short stories. He recently directed his first feature, Paradise Grove, which won international awards and was nominated at the British Independent Film Awards. As script consultant, he 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. Catch him also each month in Sky Indie's Director's Chair.

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.