FriendlyFiend @friendlyfiendish.bsky.social Telly writer, quondam story editor, full-time geek. This is my account for the geeky stuff.
Barry Forshaw @barryf48.bsky.social Writer & journalist (newspapers, magazines); books on crime fiction & film (inc. Crime Fiction: A Reader's Guide, British Gothic Cinema). Editor: Crime Time (www.crimetime.co.uk), Blu-ray Choice (www.dvdchoices.co.uk), Classical CD Choice
Alison Eales, Nerves of Steel @alisoneales.com Thames in the streets, LWT in the sheets
she/her
alisoneales.com
Andrew Mark Sewell @amsewell.bsky.social 60s fringe boomer, award-winning audio drama director, indie film producer, publisher (B7 Comics) and founder of B7 Media. Owner of 2 fish and a cat who thinks she’s a dog. www.B7Media.com
Chris - drummer @cmsdrums.bsky.social Comedy: (Rik & Ade, Coogan, Fast Show, Vic n Bob etc…)
Music: (Varied, but esp. Classic/heavier & funkier rock - Queen, Dan Reed Network, Thunder, GnR, Extreme etc…)
My 80s band is at www.facebook.com/totalrecalluk
Views my own & not of my employer
Robert Crighton @robertcrighton.bsky.social Performer, writer, producer - founder of Beyond Shakespeare, but I won't be doing much of that here. Mostly other stuff.
Eleanor Morton @eleanormorton.bsky.social Scottish comic/writer/actor with confusing accent, absolutely not insecure about it. She/her. My book out now! Show for '26: The Mermaid https://linktr.ee/eleanormorton
Eleanor & Alasdair Read That on Spotify
support me: https://ko-fi.com/eleanormorton
Jon Dear @accordingtojond.bsky.social Writer on archive TV and film. Currently working on a book about the BBC’s A Ghost Story for Christmas. Produced The Quatermass Experiment (2023) and Children of The Stone Tape (2024). Podcasts on Nigel Kneale and Giallo.
Ned Parker (he/him) @mrnedparker.bsky.social Executive Producer, Longwave Studios
Lives in Lewes, Sussex
Ian Brumpton @ianbrumpton.bsky.social Drama/Comedy/Children's Scriptwriter. Fully qualified Geordie. Shortlisted BAFTA Rocliffe 2023 Children & YA. BBC Writersroom 2023 Longlist (Top 3%). Asperger's Syndrome & Visually Impaired. 🌈
Anna Jordan @annaruthjordan.bsky.social Without a Paddle. Writer. TV: Succession, One Day, Killing Eve, Becoming Elizabeth. Plays: Yen: MOTHER COURAGE (Globe) Pop Music, Freak.
Director / teacher / mum to Gryff - he’s much funnier than me.
Simon Hynd @simonhynd.bsky.social dramas that make you laugh, comedies that make you cry #Mammoth #BBCGhosts #Motherland #TheCockfields #ThereSheGoes #BobServant.
Can You Keep A Secret? coming soon.
Death Valley coming sooner.
Helga @helganr.bsky.social 💻 Psychological Thriller / Mystery / Horror Writer
✍🏼(WIP: 4M+ Words), Multi-Book Series
📝Status: Draft 5 (Full Series Rewrite)
Phil Clarke @philmscribe.bsky.social Script Consultant ~ Screenwriter ~ Film pro
Worked on #StarWars and #HarryPotter among many others. Now helping #screenwriters develop their scripts and hone their craft.
www.philmscribe.com
Rajesh Thind @rajeshthind.bsky.social Filmmaker, writer, gospel choir-boy etc.
Links: https://linktr.ee/rajeshthind
Agent: www.sternwild.com/film-makers/rajesh-thind
Debbie Moon @debbiemoon.bsky.social Screenwriter, hiker, fangirl, armchair astronaut. Eater of cake and friend of cats. WOLFBLOOD, HINTERLAND, THE SPARTICLE MYSTERY. Reps: Gary Wild, JFL Agency (UK), Sukee Chew, Hopscotch (US). She/they.
Sarah Dollard @sardoll.bsky.social Screenwriter (DOCTOR WHO, BRIDGERTON, BEING HUMAN) • they/them
Dave Cohen @daveiswriting.bsky.social Horrible Histories songs bloke.
Writer of comedy.
Writer about comedy.
Funny Up Your Fiction: Add Light, Shade and Laughs to your Novel - new book out now.
http://davecohen.org.uk
Tom Crowley @atomcrowley.bsky.social Writer, actor, comedian. Listen to my award-winning sketch comedy show Crowley Time: crowleytime.com
Lisa Holdsworth @lisaholdsworth.bsky.social TV Writer: Midsomer, Midwife, ACGAS and Dreamers (still available to stream on C4).
WGGB, Slung Low Shorts and Leeds Care Leavers Christmas.
Mark O’Sullivan @immarkosullivan.bsky.social TV type. RTS Award-winning #MySexualAbuseTheSitcom and #LeeandDean on C4. #TellMeEverything on @itvx. Ambassador for @survivorstrust & host of Making Lemonade podcast. Find everything here - https://linktr.ee/making_lemonade
James Topham @jamestopham.bsky.social Screenwriter: @RidleyScottCG, @GaumontTV #BAFTA / @RocliffeForum Winner.
https://james-topham.com
Tom Jamieson @tomjam.bsky.social Surprisingly 🇦🇺 Senior writer Private Eye. Co-head writer BBC Dead Ringers. Award losing children’s author. Dog stick wrangler.
Andrea Mann @andreamann.bsky.social Screenwriter / Mentor / Landlocked yacht-rock lover. She/her. www.andreamann.com
Cameron Loxdale @cloxdale.bsky.social 🏴 Comedy writer and script editor https://linktr.ee/cloxdale
👴 I made a starter pack full of divorced men named Geoff
📺 Rep: Georgia Kanner @ Independent Talent
Sarfraz Manzoor @sarfrazmanzoor.bsky.social I am a screenwriter (Blinded by the Light), author (Greetings from Bury Park, They), journalist (Guardian, Times and lots of others), I teach at UCL and am working on my first stage play. Mostly though I am a husband and father of two young children.
James Moran @jamesmoran.com 📝 Screenwriter
🎬 Severance, Cockneys Vs Zombies, Tower Block
📺 Doctor Who, Torchwood, Spooks, Crusoe, Crossing Lines, Eve, Dave Spud, & more
👋 He/him
www.jamesmoran.com
Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com Optimist, writer, swearer. common person. Co-founder Big Book Weekend with @MollyFlatt. Proud Primadonna. Professor, University of Leicester. FRSL. Photo by Paul Chambers. No DMs please. To email use contact@kitdewaal.com
Roland Moore @rolandmooretv.bsky.social Writer - Emmy winning Fallen (2025), Humans (2021), 2:hrs, Land Girls, Rastamouse, Big Finish / BAFTA voting / WGGB.
NOT VERIFYING SO NO DMs PLEASE
Joseph Lidster @josephlidster.bsky.social writer, script editor, pillock
https://linktr.ee/josephlidster
Mike Cooper @mikecooperrp.bsky.social Award winning comedy writer* and full time other.
https://www.comedy.co.uk/people/mike-cooper_2/
We made short films in Kidderminster in the 90s
https://www.youtube.com/@regulatorpictures/
*Clubman of the Year - Franche Villa U13s 1988
Sophie Petzal @sonicscrewup.bsky.social TV writer, ‘BLOOD’, ‘HOLLINGTON DRIVE’, THE LAST KINGDOM’, ‘MEDICI’, other things you’ve not seen. They gave me a Writers Guild Award once. Mostly post about Arsenal.
James Huntrods @jameshuntrods.bsky.social TV Writer (Netflix, Disney, BBC, Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, Dreamworks, Paramount). Part of BAFTA Connect. Represented by Ellen Gallagher, Casarotto Ramsay & Associates.
www.jameshuntrods.com
William Mager @wlmager.bsky.social Screenwriter for film and TV | 4Screenwriting | BBC Writersroom | REUNION April 7th 9pm BBC ONE | My friends call me Billy | www.wlmager.com
Gary Panton @garypanton.co.uk Author of THE NOTWITCHES and THE NOTWITCHES: PRISON BREAK. All the links for ordering can be found at garypanton.co.uk/books/
Represented by Rachel Mann at CAA.
📍Perth, Scotland
🌐 garypanton.co.uk
Grace Knight @grace-knight.co.uk Glasgow based writer with credits across film, TV, audio drama, and theatre. www.grace-knight.co.uk. Current project for Choice of Games:https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/magic-at-the-masthead-by-grace-knight-wip-thread-60k-word-demo/178096
🏳️🌈🚲📺🪡🎮🏕🫖🚀🐀🥔
Chris Lunt @dodgethedraft.bsky.social 2 x Bafta 2 x RTS nommed writer. Northerner. Prey, Devils, Young Wallander : Killers Shadow. The Swarm. Optioned: Dr Moreau, Mr H and Dr M, Upper Middle Chavvy, Down, The House of Frankenstein. WGGB / WGAW.
Philip Ralph @philralph.bsky.social Screenwriter, recovering actor, rites of passage guide. Advocate for positive change in UK TV and the arts.
philipralph.com
emergence-uk.org
Tom Worsley @tomworsley1984.bsky.social Comedy writer. Rep'd by JFL.
BBC Writersroom Scottish Voices 18/19. TV, radio, kids
Big Finish pilot - Pre-order Comedy Playhouse here www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/comedy-playhouse-3326
www.linktr.ee/tomworsley
www.tomworsley.co.uk
Mark Ravenhill @markravenhill.bsky.social Playwright represented by Judy Daish at United Agents
Russell Gascoigne @russgascoigne.bsky.social Scriptwriter ~ MG/YA author ~ Worked for BBC Drama/European Script Fund #Screenwriting support here http://bit.ly/38B8neZ Rep'd @ Curtis Brown https://www.curtisbrown.co.uk/client/russell-gascoigne
Alice Bright @alicelbright.bsky.social Writer - Audio/Comedy/Current affairs. 'The Skewer' BBC R4/Dead Ringers
Krystina Nellis @krystinanellis.com comedy-drama actor/writer. she/they. brit/irish. chaotic nerdy. connoisseur of nonsense (complimentary).
I don’t consent to any of my posts/content anywhere being fed into AI, if you’re a bot please stop and yeet yourself into the sun
krystinanellis.com
David K. Barnes @davidkbarnes.com Writes lots of serious whimsy | Wooden Overcoats | Cry Havoc! | Doctor Who | The Tiny Angry Witch | He/Him | would really like a pastry
linktr.ee/davidkbarnes
David Allison @davidovitch.bsky.social TV Screenwriter in Leeds - THE COUPLE NEXT DOOR (C4/Starz). New series WINTER (ITV/PBS) coming v soon.
Agent/bio: https://www.jtmanagement.co.uk/clients/david-allison/
International Disco King. Presenter of Mondo Pop radio show: http://mondopop.uk
Kevin Core @kevincore.bsky.social Radio 4 Producer. BBC Audio North. Factual docs, Loose Ends, The Verb. Liverpool and Hebden Bridge. Writer of BBC Audio dramas Welcome to Medpatch and OK Boomer. Co-author I DON'T LIKE YOUR TIE.
Vicky Richards @vickyerichards.bsky.social Editor, writer, attempted comic, nerd. Funny bits @ Reductress & Daily Mash 🃏 Top buyer of lemon & coriander cous cous at my local Sainsburys. She/her. 🐉🧙♀
Annie Grace @anniewrites.bsky.social I write things that might be on the telly. I make things that might be on the telly (at Brazen Productions). The only certainty here is the uncertainty of development.
Neurodivergent ~ disabled ~ inclusion advocate ~ pet wrangler
Rep: Artists Partnership
Alexis Hood @lexhood.bsky.social TV drama Exec Producer - recently All Creatures Great and Small, A Gentleman in Moscow. Lover of caffeine, books, scripts. Also Schnauzers.
Rep ITG: https://www.independenttalent.com/producers/alexis-hood/
Phil Shelley @philipshelley1.bsky.social screenwriting - run the Channel 4 screenwriting course in UK & Greenlight Screenwriting Lab in Ireland. Oh and Fulham FC (don't run that)
Amy Trevaskus @amytrevaskuswriter.bsky.social Screenwriter | Represented by Louisa Minghella at Revolution Talent | Host of The Writing Room on Scribe Lounge | Mentor | Founder of Bristol AF Productions | Mum, Mummy, Muh
Chris Watt @thechriswatt.bsky.social Screenwriter & Script Consultant
(STALKER, BRUISE, THE MIRE, THE BROOK).
Member of BAFTA Scotland.
WINNER
(Shore Scripts 1/2 hour TV Pilot Comp 2024).
Breathing air since 1980.
Aberdeen, Scotland.
IMDB:
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10307428/
Fraser Denholm @fraserdenholm.bsky.social Scottish Writer/Director
Quarterfinalist 2021 @goldenscriptnet, @screencrafting
Semi-finalist @FilmarkethubTV Pilot 2021
Currently doing an MLitt in Creative Writing at Strathclyde Uni.
www.fraserdenholm.com
Jacob Holmes-Brown @jhbwrites.bsky.social Script Editor/Consultant for Film/TV
Creative Producer & Writer
✝ 🇦🇺🇬🇧🏳️🌈 Give me stories w/cultural nuance about lost homes & new belongings
Line Langebek @linelangebek.bsky.social Writer, Swimmer, Viking-in-hiding, sometimes Danish. She/her.
#TheGirlWiththeNeedle, a MUBI release, in theatres and online now.
Rep: Casarotto Ramsay & Associates
New here.
Miranda Walker @mirandawriter.bsky.social I write comedy, drama & musicals for TV/ theatre, including Face It, Fly Eddie Fly, Mixmups, Wonderblocks, Playtime Towers, Rafi the Wishing Wizard, The Now Show, The News Quiz. BAFTA Connect. https://fillinghamweston.com/clients/name/miranda-walker-1/
James Boughen @jamesboughen.bsky.social comedy writer
Ru Briant @rubriant.bsky.social Screenwriter & A+E Doctor | Rep: Clare Israel @ David Higham Associates
Sarah Rutherford @sarahrutherford.bsky.social Screenwriter/playwright represented by The Agency. BAFTA Connect member.
www.sarahrutherford.com
Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social Comedy writer: Naked Week and The Skewer BBC Radio 4, Breaking the News BBC iplayer, Noising Up BBC Radio Scotland
Stu Cooper @stucooper1.bsky.social Writer/script ed: sketch, panel shows, podcasts. Commissioned The Skewer-er, Dead Ringers, Lead Writer for BBC Breaking The News, Naked Week, OG Kirrin Islander. Relatively inoffensive views.
Alex Garrick-Wright @agarrickwright.bsky.social Comedy writer with @BandC_Comedy, David Nobbs Memorial Trust Award winner 2023. Check out my nonsense on http://bonnieandclydeside.com.
Farook Qais @farook112.bsky.social 3x AWARD WINNING #SCREENWRITER.
Writing, storytelling, sports; I'm there.
Moray Hunter @morayh.bsky.social Comedy writer (Alone on R4 most recently), actor, script editor even, this and thatter. All views….sporadic. Rep’d by JFL Agency (writing) and Independent.
JD Waterhouse @jdwaterhouse.bsky.social Upcoming UK based Screenwriter | ADORE TV 📺 and Audio Drama 🔉 | Formally Writing MA 🎭 @ University of Warwick | Trying to watch everything ever made before the world ends 🌍😭 Secretly reality TV obsessed 👀
Jenny Takahashi Stark @jennytstark.bsky.social 🇬🇧🇯🇵 Screenwriter, repped by Curtis Brown | 🏆 Brit List '24 | 4Screenwriting ‘23 | BBC London Voices ‘23 | Film London BTGC ‘23 | All3Media New Voices Drama Winner ‘22 | BAFTA Connect
https://www.curtisbrown.co.uk/client/jenny-takahashi-stark
Just Get A Real Job @justgetarealjob.bsky.social A podcast where Script Editor Jamie Mackinlay helps listeners navigate & understand the creative industries by interviewing a wide range of creatives 🎙️
Listen Here: https://linktr.ee/Justgetarealjobpodcast
Laura Taylor @laurataylor94.bsky.social Ones to watch Edinburgh TV festival. Scripted development producer. RTS Scotland and Broadcast Digital awards nominated.
Chris Lang @chrislangwriter.bsky.social Screenwriter. Unforgotten: I, Jack Wright: The Thief His Wife and the Canoe : Innocent
Mhairi Ledgerwood @meledgerwood.bsky.social Playwright. Royal Court Writers Group (North). Live Theatre Bursary 2020. BBC NE Voices 2021. Bush Theatre Allotments 22/23. Box of Tricks Accelerate 2024. Grass Routes Prize Top 20%.
Claire Rowlands @clairerwrites.bsky.social Stacking up my faves and thoughts to zero eyeballs 👋 I like it here.
My screenwriting stuff: https://clairerowlands.carrd.co
Ed Cripps @edcripps.bsky.social Channel 4 Screenwriting Course alumni, BFI Flare mentee, BAFTA Connect, KAOS, writer for pay, gay for free. Rep: United Agents.
Ali Taylor @thisalitaylor.bsky.social Playwright. Cathy, Goth Weekend, Under My Skin, Fault Lines, Machine Gunners, A Little Neck, Overspill, Cotton Wool.
http://www.knighthallagency.com/client/ali-taylor
Ben S. Hyland @ben-s-hyland.bsky.social Comedy Writer/Director | BAFTA Rocliffe WINNER |
BAFTA Connect member | Shore Script 1/2 Hour TV Pilot Winner | Films inc Quiet Carriage/Talk Radio/Bleep/The Snip
Agent: Steven Russell
Phil Hamer @philhamer.bsky.social Oscar-watching screenwriter, Academy Nicholl Semi-Final ‘23, Shore Scripts feature final '24, BBC Voices ‘23. Welsh valleys boyo, upside down head.
https://philhamer.co.uk/
Gillian Richmond @writerrichmond.bsky.social Scriptwriter (theatre, TV, radio).
Author of the Substack THIS WRITER’S JOURNEY.
Servant to a border terrier called Freddie.
UK: London&Suffolk
Rep: Casarotto Ramsay
casarotto.co.uk
gillianrichmond.com
gillianrichmond.substack.com
Scott P @scottp128.bsky.social TV Writer. Repped by Nick Turner Management. ADHDer.
Adam Lavis @adamlavis.bsky.social Founder and Director at SUSPENSION
Claire Nicol @clairenicol.bsky.social Writer. TV & Film. #BAFTA New Talent Winner. Rocliffe Forum List. Teaches a little/talks a lot @ Uni of Strathclyde
#BAFTAConnect
Catherine Dunne @catherinedunne.bsky.social Acting. Writing. Arsenal.
Abigail Webber @abigailwebber.bsky.social Screenwriter, MA Writing for Script & Screen Falmouth. Talent Campus #4. Lecturer and script consultant. Stationery addict, Janeite, Heyerite. Still making sense of late ADHD diagnosis. Dipping into playwriting. 
Lucy Kaufman @lucykaufman.bsky.social Playwright. Author. Screenwriter. Audio Dramatist. Lecturer in Playwriting and Screenwriting. Write On! Magazine. Mentor at The Writing Coach. Londoner living and writing in Hove.
@kearneyroisin.bsky.social @kearneyroisin.bsky.social Screenwriter/director
Pete Dodds @wordsbypete.bsky.social Scriptwriter ✍️ / Messaging Consultant ☎️
Finalist: FinalDraft Big Break, Pittsburgh Shorts, Screencraft🏅
Psych-rock aficionado, film lover, European and much more (not that much more)
wordsbypete.com
Paul Read @paulreadwrites.bsky.social UK Screenwriter. Comedy/Sitcom. Rep’d by JFLAgency
Jan Ruppe @janruppe.bsky.social Writer, film and theatre maker, co director of Bradford International Film Festival.
Izzy Mant 🔹 @izzymant.bsky.social Screenwriter (emerging). Former producer (stuff you've heard of like Peep Show). Catless childless cat lady (proud). 
Angela Jobson @jobbbo.bsky.social Screenwriter, Multimedia Producer, Archer, Archaeologist
Tom Courtney @tom-courtney.bsky.social Story Producer | Script Editor Moonage Pictures
Bodies | Guy Ritchie's The Gentlemen | A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
BAFTA Connect
banner @ benjinewman 🐝
Amelia Guttridge @ameliaguttridge.bsky.social screenwriter & director | drama/comedy short UNEVEN BARS now in post-production | shortlisted Jed Mercurio Mentorship Programme & Studio21 Script Comp
Laura Scrivano @laurascri.bsky.social Director | Writer | 🎬 📺 Deadpoint (filming) The Lazarus Project, Wedding Season, Hanna | 🇮🇹🇦🇺 working in 🇬🇧 🇺🇲 | https://laurascrivano.com/
Jodie Ashdown @jodieashdown.bsky.social Welsh TV and film writer rep'd by Matt and Maddie at Berlin Associates.
Good time gal and all-round gay. Rat bag. Bard of Rhiwbeina Junior School Eisteddfod 1996. Big into science fiction. Running Punk.
www.jodieashdown.co.uk
Mina Barber @minabarber.bsky.social Writer/Director - | BAFTA Connect | ALUNA Labs | BBC Writersroom | SKY Arts Award alumni
https://fillinghamweston.com/mina-barber-new-to-fwa/
Tom Wentworth @tomwentworth.bsky.social Playwright/Screenwriter. 🏳️🌈Trustee: Watermill Theatre
Rick Allden @rickallden.bsky.social Writer but often wronger | From Coventry, in Caerphilly | MA creative writing | BBC Writersroom Voices 19/21 | Shortlisted: Wales Writer in Res, BBC Drama, BBC Comedy, Traverse | Loves Coco Pops. No. Ha. No, no, no. LOVES them. | PUSB www.rickallden.com
Aurora Fearnley @aurorafearnley.bsky.social Director/Actor/Writer
#invisibledisability 🦓 Access Coordinator ♿️ Broadcast HotShot 2023
#BAFTA Connect BIFA 🎬 Springboard and voter
Berlinale Talents alumna
Doctor Who: Matryoshka at Big Finish
LittleNorthernLight.com
Caoimhe @drmuig.bsky.social Me
Abi Hynes @afahynes.bsky.social Drama and fiction writer. GANGS OF LONDON S4. MONSTROUS LONGING out with Dahlia Books.
Agents: Independent Talent / The Ampersand Agency
Brit List 2022 / BAFTA Connect member
https://linktr.ee/abifahynes
Emma Baggott @spectatoreab.bsky.social Directs.
Mother.
Teacher.
Welsh.
European.
she / her.
Next Up: Dracula @mogster.bsky.social
https://lyric.co.uk/shows/dracula/
Rep: Dan Usztan @ United Agents
https://www.unitedagents.co.uk/emma-baggott