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) 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.
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.
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. Read a review about his ScreenLab programme from Scriptwriter Magazine.
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 before the end of 2008 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 freelance script consultant and screenwriter who works for the UK Film Council’s Premiere and New Cinema Funds, the Script Factory, Skillset and numerous independent companies. Having started his career as an illustrator, he continues to accept design commissions and recently set up an independent company to produce a short film, Behind the Bar, from one of his own screenplays. As well as developing a range of drama projects for BBC Radio, he is currently acting as a consultant on a horror feature to be shot on location in Italy and writing a large-scale post-apocalyptic thriller.
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.
Emma Serlin is an experienced script editor who has worked on Casualty, The Bill, and on several theatre plays. She was an award winning theatre director and ran her own successful theatre company before moving to TV Drama two years ago. Since then she has worked as a story editor on The Bill and as a script editor on Casualty. She has also been a freelance script reader for BBC Continuing drama since 2006. She is currently working as a freelance development producer and is in discussions with BBC and several top Independent TV Company regarding collaboration for a number of her projects. Prior to moving to theatre she spent two years working in film, and during that time, as well as being involved with several short films and a successful British feature film, she studied script writing, film making and script development at several institutions including American University of Paris, The Script Factory and Tisch Film School in New York. Her broad experience in TV, Film and theatre puts her in an excellent position to assist both the beginner and the more experienced writer in fulfilling their scripts potential.
