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Sian Evans

Sian began her career as a literary translator and then moved into writing original drama. Her plays and translations have been produced at many of the most important venues in the UK, including The National Theatre, Britain's most prestigious theatre.

She now concentrates on film and television, and has written over thirty hours of broadcast network TV, including episodes of the major UK dramas, Touching Evil, Peak Practice, Where The Heart Is, Casualty etc. She has also written & sold her own one-off dramas and a series, Hereafter for the largest commercial network in the UK, involving major British TV stars. She's currently writing a new series based on the Irish community in Cape Town. She also lectures on screenwriting at Britain's leading creative writing school, the University of East Anglia. She currently lives in Norwich, England with her two children and an assortment of pets.

Toby Garfath

Toby is a script editor and consultant for companies including Warner Bros, Universal, BBC Films, Optimum Releasing and B3 Media.  He has worked in development for the UK Film Council, and most recently at Warner Bros, on projects including SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE, and Guy Ritchie’s upcoming SHERLOCK HOLMES.

Toby has also lectured in screenwriting for the Birkbeck Creative Writing MA course.

As a screenwriter, Toby is currently adapting a novella by author James Meek for a British producer.

Liz Garner

Liz has worked on the scriptreading board at Miramax in London, and subsequently was Head of Development at Gorgeous, an independent film production company. She now freelances for a number of outfits, including the Irish Film Development Board.

Liz is also a prize-winning writer in her own right. Her first novel Nightdancing (from Hodder Headline) was short-listed for the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award and also for the Pendleton May First Novel Award. Her second novel, Edgar Jones, is forthcoming from the same publishers. She is currently writing a screenplay for a noted UK features director, with production scheduled for 2009.

Pauline Kiernan

Pauline is a successful screenwriter, script reader, award-winning playwright and Shakespeare scholar.

She has been commissioned to write two screenplays by an independent Hollywood producer, the first now in development. She has also been commissioned to work on a script by a distinguished English producer about a famous composer, and has also been commissioned to write a film set in contemporary Africa by a young English production company.

Her latest book on Shakespeare is published this October.

Jane Purcell

Jane used to work in children’s books at Random House, but left to travel the world.  Since then she has written sketch comedy for radio (The Way It Is on Radio 4) and television, (Smack the Pony for Channel 4 and The Sketch Show for ITV/Baby Cow).

She has written several plays and series for BBC Radio 4, including Beryl du Jour, Whoosh! and a five-part Woman’s Hour series for Radio 4, Cooking for Michael Collins.  The Guardian described it as 'gripping’, and the Financial Times said 'Jane Purcell's retelling of the story of Pidgie Rigney ... is immediately gripping... Riveting.' Her next Woman’s Hour series was about the history of girls comics, 43 Years in the Third Form.  The Telegraph said it was 'funny, ingenious and evocative.'

Jane has a comedy series optioned by ITV and is currently rewriting it for the ten millionth time while her producer stands over her with a big stick. She is also an Associate Lecturer with the Open University, and tutor on its Advanced Creative Writing Course.  Her mother says her tea towels are ‘an absolute disgrace.’

Jeremy Sheldon

Jeremy is an experienced film consultant, writing tutor and novelist. In addition to writing two books, The Comfort Zone and The Smiling Affair (both Jonathan Cape), Jeremy has seven years experience as a consultant for a number of film production companies including Miramax, Working Title, Film Four, Icon Entertainment and Material Entertainment. In addition to this, he has worked as a script editor for the Irish Filmboard and a number of other clients and is currently (co)writing his first screenplay as well as completing his third novel, a thriller titled The Stars of Kashmir.

Jeremy is also a regular tutor for the Arvon Foundation and teaches both at Imperial College and on the MA in Creative Writing program at Birkbeck College, University of London where he runs a workshop specifically focused on Narrative & Genre. He doesn't really look like Robert de Niro, and he isn't a vicar.

Jon Spira

Jon graduated from the Scottish Film School in Edinburgh in 1999 and went on to spend several years working as a jobbing screenwriter. He was a staff writer on cult Canadian sci-fi show LEXX and went on to write various shows for Thames TV and the BBC.

He has written feature film scripts for Manga Live, Palm Pictures and a multitude of shady independent producers. He has taught the UK Film Council Screenwriting course since 2004 in Oxford where he also owns a chain of independent DVD rental stores, an  independent DVD label and a production company. He is currently directing his first feature film. Jon has been happily unmarried for 31 years.

Amber Trentham

Amber became a fiction editor, until she had a baby whereupon she became a script reader for various illuminates: Working Title Films, UK Film Council, ICM, FAME and Gorgeous Films.

She then became a freelance script editor and consultant, tried her hand at writing features, realized how difficult it was, and enrolled in a screenwriting MA at LCP.

For the last three years she has been developing scripts with writers, directors and producers, whilst writing all the while. She received her first film commission at the beginning of last year, and is now onto her second. She is represented by the well-known Casarotto film agency.