A screenwriter is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs, and video games, are based.
A screenplay, or script, is a written work by screenwriters for a film, television show, or video game. A screenplay written for television is also known as a teleplay. Screenplays can be original works or adaptations from existing pieces of writing. A screenplay is a form of narration in which the movements, actions, expressions and dialogue of the characters are described in a certain format. Visual or cinematographic cues may be given, as well as scene descriptions and scene changes.
The Writers Guild of America (WGA) is the joint efforts of two different American labor unions representing writers in film, television, radio, and online media:
The National Comedy Awards is an annual awards ceremony in the United Kingdom, celebrating notable comedians and entertainment performances of the previous year.
The Australian Writers' Guild (AWG) is the professional association for Australian performance writers for film, television, radio, theatre, video, and new media. The AWG was established in 1962, and has conferred the AWGIE Awards since 1968, the Monte Miller Awards since 1972, and the John Hinde Award since 2008.
Chris Jury is an English actor, writer and director with a range of television credits. He is best known for his role as Eric Catchpole in the BBC television series Lovejoy, which he played between 1986 and 1993, with a brief return in 1994, for the show's finale.
Roy Samuel Williams is a British playwright.
Patrick Wymark was an English stage, film and television actor.
David Edgar is a British playwright and writer who has had more than sixty of his plays published and performed on stage, radio and television around the world, making him one of the most prolific dramatists of the post-1960s generation in Great Britain. He was resident playwright at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in 1974–5 and has been a board member there since 1985. Awarded a Fellow in Creative Writing at Leeds Polytechnic, he was made a Bicentennial Arts Fellow (US) (1978–79).
Heidi Thomas is an English screenwriter and playwright.
John Charles Wilsher is an English television screenwriter and playwright, best known for dramas relating to the police and law enforcement such as long-running procedural The Bill. His highest profile work was as creator of Between the Lines, which screened in the UK between 1992 and 1994.
Alexander Peter Moffat is a British playwright and screenwriter.
Craig Warner is a multiple award-winning playwright and screenwriter who lives and works in Suffolk, England.
Olwen Margaret Wymark was an American writer and playwright.
John Hugh d'Allenger Kershaw was a British screenwriter and script editor. He edited the entire first season of the television program Bergerac, and contributed to others including The Bill and Armchair Theatre.
Pádraig Cusack is an Irish theatre producer who has worked with the National Theatre of Great Britain, the Abbey Theatre Dublin, the NCPA Mumbai and numerous international festivals.
Allan Cubitt is a British television, film, and theatre writer, director, and producer and former teacher, best known for his work on Prime Suspect II and The Fall.
Gaby Chiappe is a British screenwriter, known for her original works: television show The Level, and the films Their Finest and Misbehaviour. Prior to developing those, she worked extensively in commissioned British television, receiving praise and accolades for some of her stories. She has also acted, at university and in a small role in Their Finest.
Jo Clifford is a British writer, performer, poet and teacher based in Edinburgh. She is the author of around 80 plays, many of which have been translated into various languages and performed all over the world. In 2017 Clifford was inducted into the Saltire Society's community of Outstanding women of Scotland, and in 2021 she was awarded the Olwen Wymark award by the Writers' Guild of Great Britain.
Nick Leather is a British screenwriter and playwright, best known as the creator of the drama series The Control Room for BBC One, as well as the CBBC children's series Rocket's Island.
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