Andrew is an experienced and dedicated Head Writer, Story Editor and scriptwriter for children’s TV.
Andrew has head written The Woohoos! (Milkshake!/Snipple Originals), Supertato (CBeebies), Dennis and Gnasher Unleashed! (CBBC/Beano Studios) and Rhyme Time Town (Netflix/Dreamworks Animation Television), and also has writing credits that include Let’s Go, Bananas! Zog, Rafi the Wishing Wizard, Pip & Posy, Rastamouse, Isadora Moon, Tree Fu Tom, Go Jetters, The Furchester Hotel, Floogals, Bitz & Bob, Justin’s House, Topsy & Tim, Bob the Builder, Dog Loves Books and Numberblocks.
On top of this, Andrew has done extensive series development and pilot scripts for 9Story/Scholastic, CAKE Entertainment, Dreamworks Animation TV, Snapper Films, Nickelodeon, Magic Light Pictures, CBeebies, CBBC, Encycle Studios and Snipple Originals.
Andrew’s CV can be found here
Andrew is an Emmy-nominated writer and head writer who writes comedy, drama, children’s TV, animation, books, adverts, and song lyrics for audiences of all ages.
He has written over 200 episodes of children’s television, including pre-school favourites such as Fireman Sam, Thomas the Tank Engine and Teletubbies. He has also worked as a head writer, has written for older children, and has worked on several animated series and a feature script for Aardman. In 2017 he was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Writing for Bookaboo.
Andrew’s radio plays have been made ‘Radio Choice’ in national newspapers, and been featured on Radio 4’s Pick of the Week. He has also written comedy for the likes of Mitchell and Webb, took part in the BBC’s College of Comedy and has sold numerous original sitcom and feature scripts.
He has an MA in Screenwriting from the London College of Communication and was nominated for the Taps Writer of the Year award. He has also written for the Guardian and is the author of the book Venn That Tune, described by Time Out as ‘witty and ingenious’.
Andrew’s CV can be found here
Andy’s writing is characterised by its honesty and perceptiveness that transports readers to intricately detailed worlds inhabited by larger-than-life characters. Raised in London, Andy finds inspiration in the city’s vibrant culture, which now serves as a rich tapestry for his storytelling. He deftly infuses his work with an authenticity born of personal experience, while allowing his boundless imagination to soar. Andy’s unique voice promises to be a beacon of originality.
Soulla left her job as a secondary school teacher when she accidentally discovered screenwriting. She quickly realised that writing for the screen was the perfect marriage (storm!) of her two biggest passions (writing & photography) and she’s never looked back. Soulla is a second generation Liverpudlian Greek Cypriot.
Julian has held a variety of jobs from boy soldier, to movie animal trainer, before studying at Bournemouth Film School and pursuing a career in screenwriting.
He’s the writer and creator of Acorn TV’s Emmy™ nominated QUEENS OF MYSTERY, an off-beat, Amélie-esque style take on the traditional world of cosy crime, the second season of which was released on Acorn’s US and Global platforms in January 2022 before going on to be sold to dozens of international territories including Channel 5 in the UK.
A five season veteran of ITV’s worldwide hit DOC MARTIN, Julian is currently developing and adapting several television shows for the UK and US, two of which already have international distributors attached, as well as developing his own feature script UNKNOWN FEMALE with US production company 87North and director David ‘Bullet Train’ Leitch.
He is the writer of the multi-award winning Oscar™ short-listed short LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT starring John Hurt, as well as being the writer of the zero award winning, 13% on Rotten Tomatoes, medieval slasher-fest SWORD OF VENGEANCE starring no one in particular.
Julian’s CV can be found here
Jake is a screenwriter and story consultant with over twenty years’ experience. Before turning to writing full time, he worked as a story producer for THE BILL, during which time the show was nominated for a BAFTA. He subsequently went on to write 12 episodes and rewrote many more. He also wrote most of the first series of MURDER INVESTIGATION TEAM (ITV) and was the story consultant for the second series.
Credits include SUPSECTS, DEATH IN PARADISE and GRANTCHESTER. He also wrote 3 episodes of LONDON KILLS, for Acorn TV. He served both as a story consultant and writer on REYKA, an eight-part crime drama about a mixed-race criminal profiler for M-Net / Fremantle International, starring Kim Englebrecht and Iain Glen. It was nominated for an International Emmy in 2022.
Recently, Jake has written all six episodes for ENDANGERED, a thriller for M-net / Forlan Films / Lionsgate based on a best-selling novel. He is adapting WEEPING WATERS, the first in the Inspector Albertus Beeslaar series of books by Karin Brynard, for Forlan Films / M-net.
Jake has also co-created, and written the pilot for BELLA & THE BEAST, a cosy crime series set in Budapest with Joyrider Films, Hungary.
Jake’s CV can be found here
Eleanor Wyld is a queer Jewish writer and actor from Hackney. She studied at Guildhall School of Music and Drama and has worked extensively as an actor in theatre, film and television.
Eleanor has been commissioned to adapt her novel CRAY for the screen by Red Planet Pictures and the BBC co-writing.
In CRAY, broke, would-be actress Janis Steele is putting on the performance of a lifetime. She’s on a coming- of-age quest for success and validation whilst serving canape?s to the people she partied with the night before. It’s a swirling, sharp-witted study of female alcoholism and mental health; loss and friendship.
Padraic is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter and fiction writer.
BLUE THUNDER sold-out its three-week run at the VAULT Festival in 2019 and won the Innovation Award. A second production ran at the 19th TREND Festival in Rome, a festival on the theme ‘New Frontiers in British Theatre’ curated by La Repubblica’s theatre critic. It was also adapted for BBC Radio 4 and was The Times’ Radio Pick of the Week, The Guardian’s Pick of the Day, and chosen for the BBC’s Drama of the Week podcast.
FOXES was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and was shortlisted for Best Original Audio Drama at the 2018 BBC Audio Drama Awards.
His original TV comedy-drama MAN & WIFE (6x30min) was in development with The Forge.
His plays have received public readings at the HighTide Festival Theatre, Hampstead Theatre, Abbey Theatre (Dublin), West Yorkshire Playhouse and The Ilkley Playhouse.
He also won the Walter Swan Trust Playwriting Award in 2015, was 2017-2018 Writer on Attachment with the Oxford Playhouse and was shortlisted for the Channel 4 4Screenwriting attachment in 2019. He has received a Peggy Ramsay Foundation Grant. His fiction has appeared in The Stinging Fly and Cyphers.
Seyi has been building up his experience working on a variety of projects, live action, mixed media and animation writing for a number of CBeebies shows, Molly and Mack, JoJo and GranGran, Odo, and has now joined the writing teams of Toad & Friends, Mr Bean, The Woohoos, and many more.
Seyi’s CV can be found here
