Danny Stack

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Danny Stack
NationalityIrish
Occupation(s)Screenwriter, director
Known for Who Killed Nelson Nutmeg? , Hey Duggee

Danny Stack is an Irish screenwriter and film director, best known for his work in children's television. Alongside Tim Clague, he made the live-action family films Who Killed Nelson Nutmeg, Future TX and the TV series Dog Years. Danny and Tim created and co-hosted The UK Scriptwriters Podcast, a regular series of interviews with prominent writers and producers in UK film and television, as well as advice for getting into the industry. [1] [2]

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Career

After working as a special effects assistant and then a film critic for JMTV, Stack moved to England and began working for Channel 4's Entertainment department. He also worked as a freelance script reader for Miramax, Working Title and Pathe. In 2004, Stack won the BBCNI Tony Doyle Bursary Award for New Writing. [3] He gained his first writing credit on The Amazing Adrenalini Brothers , followed by Doctors and EastEnders . He subsequently moved into children's television, writing for series such as Hey Duggee, Thunderbirds Are Go, PJ Masks, Octonauts and Transformers: Rescue Bots Academy .

He helped set up the Red Planet Prize, a screenwriting award run by Red Planet Pictures, the production company of Tony Jordan. One of the winners was Robert Thorogood, whose script became Death in Paradise . [4] [5] [6]

With Tim Clague, Stack founded Nelson Nutmeg Pictures, a production company focusing on low budget children's films and television projects. Their first feature was Who Killed Nelson Nutmeg? , starring Bonnie Wright. [7] [8] The film premiered on 10 October 2015 at the 59th BFI London Film Festival. [9] [10] In 2020, the pair released their preschool series, Dog Years, on kidoodle.tv, a family-friendly streaming service. [11]

Their next film, a science-fiction children's feature titled Future TX, [12] premiered at the Cinemagic Festival in Belfast on 15 October 2022, with a limited theatrical after. In 2023, it was announced Stack and Clague were developing a new animated series, Buddybots, for Creation Entertainment Media and Magic Frame Animation . [13] Stack and Clague are also developing an animated feature for Creation, a children's comedy titled Aliens F.C.. [14]

In April 2023, RTE aired a new children's animated series, Flix, based on the books by Tomi Ungerer. Stack was head writer of the series. Also in 2023, Stack and Clague were hired to direct a number of romance dramedies for Reel One Entertainment including To England With Love starring Georgia Hirst, and A Very English Christmas starring Kimberley Nixon. [15]

Teaching

Stack has lectured on screenwriting. [16] In addition, he co-authored two guide books with Clague, The UK Scriptwriters Survival Handbook: or How to Earn an Actual Living as a Writer in 2015, followed by Write a Script in 10 Weeks in 2017.

Filmography

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References

  1. ↑ "UK Scriptwriters". Spotify .
  2. ↑ "Episode 46: Chris Chibnall".
  3. ↑ "Danny Stack Wins Tony Doyle Bursary Award | the Irish Film & Television Network".
  4. ↑ "The series creator and lead writer shares his inspiration for new BBC One drama Death in Paradise". BBC Media Centre.
  5. ↑ "Write the next Death in Paradise yourself". Radio Times. Retrieved 31 October 2013.
  6. ↑ "Danny Stack".
  7. ↑ Brew, Simon (24 March 2016). "Who Killed Nelson Nutmeg?: the trailer". Den of Geek. Archived from the original on 12 May 2016. Retrieved 10 September 2016.
  8. ↑ "Danny Stack interview - Who Killed Nelson Nutmeg?". British Comedy Guide . 31 March 2016.
  9. ↑ "Who Killed Nelson Nutmeg? in London Film Festival premiere". BBC News . 1 September 2015. Retrieved 10 September 2016.
  10. ↑ Howard, Lauren (14 September 2014). "Bournemouth-shot children's film to premier at London film festival". Bournemouth Daily Echo . Retrieved 10 September 2015.
  11. ↑ "Dog Years leads Nelson Nutmeg into TV".
  12. ↑ "Future TX". futuretx.co.uk.
  13. ↑ "'PJ Masks,' 'Oddbods' and 'Hey Duggee' Writing Duo Board 'BuddyBots' Kids' Series".
  14. ↑ https://www.animationmagazine.net/2023/11/aliens-fc-sefi-carmels-creation-entertainment-media-plays-to-win-with-animated-football-feature/
  15. ↑ "Kimberley Nixon shoots festive rom-com a Cottage Christmas". British Comedy Guide . 7 April 2023.
  16. ↑ "Writing Successful TV Bibles: From Creation to Pitch".
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