The programme started with a five-day residential Lab. Six months later, a two-day mini-Lab was held in London allowing the writers to work on their developed scripts with the mentors and the actors. One week later, a visitors’ day, held at the Actors Centre, Covent Garden, saw rehearsed readings of selected scenes, presented by their authors, to an appreciative audience of producers and agents.
June 2003 | Writing Drama for Television Lab
commissioned by Film London
As part of the East London Moving Image Initiative, the London Film and Video Development Agency (now Film London) commissioned a Lab programme on writing for television drama, for writers from specific inner-London boroughs.
Lab director
Jenny Thompson
Lab mentors
Roy Battersby - writer
Guy Slater - writer
Avril Russell - writer
Lab participants
Andrew Bernhardt - writer
Craig Blake
- actor
Paul Farrell - writer
Peter Gilpin - PAL Chef
Lisa Goldman - writer
Melina Henderson - writer
Dictynna Hood - writer
Bryony Lavery - writer
Chris McQuarry
- actor
Kara Miller - writer
Martin O’Brien - writer
Kathy Pimlott - Lab co-ordinator
Anne Rabbitt - writer
Dan Rosewarne
- actor
Osnat Schmool - actor
Becky Shaw - writer
Mia Soteriou
- actor
Tom Tyrwhitt - writer
Sheila White – writer
Robert Willox - actor
Guest speakers
Tony Garnett - Executive Producer, World Productions
Gub Neal - Executive Producer, Box TV
Kate Rowland - Director of New Writing, BBC Creative
Visitors
Luke Alkin - development producer, BBC Films
Davina Belling – Co-Managing Director, Film and General Productions Ltd
Lawrence Bowen – Feelgood Fiction
Amy Buscombe – BBC Writersroom
Maggie Ellis – Production Executive, Film London
Janet Fillingham – Janet Fillingham Associates
Fiona Findlay – Flip Films
Surian Fletcher-Jones – Development Assistant, BBC Drama Serials
Petra Fried – Development Executive, Clerkenwell Films
Tony Garnett – World Productions
Laura Hastings-Smith – Executive Producer, Dazed Film & TV
Gill Henderson – Head of Industrial and Cultural Development, Film London
Gemma Hirst – David Higham Associates
Rebecca Macguire – Projects Manager, Film London
Shefali Malhoutra – Head of Development, Granada Drama and Comedy
Nadine Marsh-Edwards –Executive Producer, BBC Drama Scotland
Catherine Oldfield – Development Script Editor ,Sally Head Productions
Phil Parker – Director, MA Screenwriting, London College of Print
Elizabeth Rand – Development Executive, BBC Drama Series
Warren Sherman – Cecily Ware Literary Agents
Sylvia Stevens – Faction Films
Megan Synman – Business Development Assistant, Film London
Funded by
London Film and Video Development Agency
European Regional Development Fund
NESTA