Dominic Mitchell

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Dominic Mitchell
Born (1979-12-20) 20 December 1979 (age 44)
Lancashire, England, UK
NationalityBritish
Occupation(s)Playwright, screenwriter

Dominic Mitchell [1] is an English playwright and screenwriter. He is the creator and writer of the BBC 3 television series In the Flesh . [2]

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Education

Mitchell studied BA (Hons) Film & Video at the Surrey Institute of Art & Design in Farnham (now the University for the Creative Arts). [3]

Career

Theatre

In 2009 Mitchell won the Papatango script competition with his darkly comic play "Potentials". Whatsonstage.com called it a "sharply observed satire…truly tense with an utterly gripping climax". [4] His short play "No. 30 to Pluto" was joint winner of the Churchill Theatre's new writing competition and was performed on the main stage as part of their 30th Birthday Gala celebrations. In 2023, Mitchell founded his own Manchester theatre company, Halperin and Weston Productions.

Television

In 2013 he was selected as one of BAFTA's 'Breakthrough Brits'. [5]

In the Flesh first aired on BBC Three on 17 March 2013. The first series comprised three hour-long episodes. An extended second series comprising six hour-long episodes was aired in the United Kingdom from 4 May 2014 and from 10 May 2014 on BBC America. The series was cancelled in 2015 due to funding cuts to BBC Three's budget. He won the Best Writer award at the 2014 BAFTA TV Craft awards [6] for In The Flesh , which went on to win 'Best Mini Series' [7] at the 2014 BAFTA awards. In response to fan interest, Mitchell set up a Go Fund Me page in 2022 to write scripts for a 'third series'. [8]

Mitchell wrote the fifth episode of the HBO science fiction show Westworld with Lisa Joy and was a supervising producer on the show's first season. In 2016, it was announced Mitchell was developing Creature, a horror thriller inspired by Slender Man . [9]

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References

  1. ↑ Dominic Mitchell (n.d.). "Blogs – Writersroom – Writing in the Flesh with the safety off". BBC. Retrieved 1 April 2013.
  2. ↑ Dominic Mitchell's new zombie drama for BBC Three, BBC, 22 February 2013, retrieved 5 March 2013
  3. ↑ "UCA – News". Archived from the original on 4 August 2014.
  4. ↑ Nick Rogers (2013), All the DARING of the Fringe at the HEART of the WEST END , retrieved 1 March 2013
  5. ↑ BAFTA Breakthrough Brits 2013, BAFTA, 24 September 2013, retrieved 30 March 2014
  6. ↑ Television Craft in 2014, BAFTA, March 2013, retrieved 30 March 2014
  7. ↑ BAFTA Recipients list ITV News Report 2014, ITV, 18 May 2014, retrieved 18 May 2014
  8. ↑ https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/a40232394/in-the-flesh-series-3-scripts-podcast/
  9. ↑ https://deadline.com/2016/04/tales-from-the-crypt-series-time-of-death-pilot-m-night-shyamalan-tnt-horror-block-1201737850/
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