MY RECENT WORK INCLUDES;

The Little Prince - Method Films/France Three. Pilot script and assist with development.

Script mentoring. Channel Four 4mations scheme. Running workshops and working with film makers on a new series of shorts.

Frankenstein's Cat - Mackinnon and Saunders/CBBC. Development consultant, show bible and head writer for this award winning series. 32x11.

Pinky And Perky - The Picture Production Company/Lupus Films./CBBC. Development consultant , show bible, pilot scripts and head writer for series. 52x13.

Dennis The Menace. Red Kite Films/CBBC. Development and writers workshop for new series.

Mr Benn - King Rollo Films. Pilot scripts for new internet and mobile phone content.

TV Loonland. Development work and show bible for a new comedy adventure show that hasn't got a final name yet!

George And Alfred - Kayenta Production/Canal+. Show bible and pilot script for a new series of seven minute comedy shorts in a classic cartoon style. I also pitched this at Cartoon Forum.

Channel Four 'Animator In Residence' and 'Mesh' schemes. Script consultant, mentor and workshop runner for past three years.

Dead Ringers - animated sketches for three seasons of this popular BBC2 impressions show, plus the pilot of a children's version.

Flowerheads - Aardman Animations. Development consultant.

Hipster And Jack - Create TV/19 Entertainment. Development work, bible and pilot script for a new animated series.

Rudi And Trudi - Teleimagination. Several scripts for a new animated series for 4-7 year olds.

Harry And His Bucket Of Dinosaurs - Collingwood O'Hare/Silver Fox Films. One script, ditto!

PAST CREDITS; ANIMATION

For nearly ten years I was a partner in Peafur Productions, devising, creating, writing and ocassionally producing cartoon content with my pal David Freedman ( davidfreedman.co.uk ) Here's some of what we did...

Bounty Hamster - Winchester Films/Grrr Ltd/CITV

Co-creator, executive producer, script editor and writer on this 26x11 minute comedy/adventure series for children.

Bafta: Finalist - Best animated series 2003.

Bradford Anaimation Festival; Finalist - Best children's series 2003.

" Witty dialogue… modern characters… highly original."

- Bafta children's panel.

Aaagh! It's The Mr Hell Show! - Sextant/BBC.

Co-creator, executive producer, head writer and script editor on 13x28 minute episodes of the first globally screened animated sketch series for adults.

Gemini Award: ( Canada )

Best animated series 2002

Leo Awards ; ( Canada )

Best Animated Production 2001.

Best Direction 2002.

Houston International Film Festival:

Best Comedy Series 2001

Annie Awards: ( U.S. animation awards)

Finalist 2001.

It was also selected for the 2001 Annecy
and 2002 Brussels Animation Festivals.

" Slick, different and funny… Sunday nights have nothing to rival it.,"

- The Mail on Sunday.

" Impossible not to look forward to the next episode ."

- The Sunday Times.

Foxbusters -
Cosgrove Hall/Itel/CITV.

Development work, show bible and all scripts for 26x11 minute episodes of this series starring Whoopi Goldberg, Joanna Lumley and Jane Horrocks.

Bafta:

Best Animated Series 2000
British Animation Awards:

Best Children's Series 2000

Foxbusters was also selected for the Chicago International Children's Film Festival and screened in cinemas though out Britain as part of a B.F.I. 'Best Of British' programme.

" For its humour, storytelling, characterisation and above all it's wit to surprise the audience, the award goes to Foxbusters."
- Children's panel - British Animation Awards.

The First Snow Of Winter - Hibbert Ralph Entertainment/BBC

Script for half hour TV special, first aired on BBC1 on Christmas Day 1998 and repeated every year since.

Prix Jeunesse:
Best Children's Programme ( 0-6 fiction ) 2000
The Royal Television Society:
Best Children's Entertainment 1999

BAFTA:
Best Animation for Children 1999
The Prix Danube:
Best Independent Production 1999
Chicago International Children's Film Festival:
2nd Prize, Children's Jury for Best Animation 1999
Kinderfilmfest, Tokyo:
Grand Prize, Best Short Film 1999
Washington DC International Film Festival:
Best Film - Audience Award - Jury Award 1999

Rex The Runt - Aardman Animations/Egmont/BBC.

Development work and 13x5 minute scripts, written with the show's creator Richard Goleszowski.

These resulted in the series being commissioned.

Bob & Margaret - Nelvana/Channel 4/Comedy Central.

Script consultant on the first season of this 13x26 minute series based on the 1994 Oscar winning short,

'Bob's Birthday'.

The Old Lady And The Pigeons - Django Productions/BBC

Dialogue for this Oscar nominated short by Sylvain Chomet, the creator of 'Belleview Rendezvous'.

Seven Little Monsters - Nelvana/Wild Things Productions.

Development work and pilot script for a new series, working with acclaimed children's author and illustrator Maurice Sendak

All About Andy - Fox Family Channel.

Development work, show bible and pilot script for a series based on a highly successful trilogy of children's books. Now in it's second series in Canada and the States.

Tiki Island - Fox Family Channel.

Reworking of sales bible and pilot.

Dennis & Gnasher - Tony Collingwood Productions/D.C. Thompson.

Several 26 minute episodes, some co-written with Tony Collingwood.

Nominated for a BAFTA in 1998.

Animal Stories - Tony Collingwood Productions/CITV

Script for one episode of this Bafta winning series. Also published as a book.

Casper - The Animated Series - Universal Pictures/Harvey Entertainment

Scripts for several 11 minute episodes.

PAST CREDITS - LIVE ACTION

FILM AND TELEVISION

· Deadringers. BBC2. Contributing writers on the last two seasons.

· Paradise Row. Script editor/contributor to comedy pilot for Working Title.

· Saturday Live. Staff writer on LWT revival.

· Pirates. 2x30 live action children's series for Childsplay and the B.B.C

· Breaking Through. Writer/presenter of 60 minute documentary on East End writers for Channel 4

· Archaos; A Night At The Circus. Writer/story boarder of 60 minute documentary for Yorkshire T.V.

· My Friend Hellman. Script for 28 minute short for Red Galaxy Pictures.

" The best short film I've seen in years. " - Liz Webb, Electric Pictures.

RADIO

· Time Hops. (With Dave Fox) 5x30 for Radio 4.

Winner of Writers' Guild award for children's radio drama.

" Marvellously witty." - The Independent.

· Tales From The Police Black Museum. 10x30 second spots for Radio 1.

· Nobody Was Here. 2x30 for Radio 4.

· The Cabaret Of Dr Caligari. 6x30 for Radio 5.

· Vote, Vote, Vote For Captain Conehead. 2x30 for Radio 5.

· Hit The Decks. ( With Dave Fox ) 6x30 for Radio 5.

· Deadly Serious. 30 minute pilot for Radio 4.

· Likely Stories. 2x30 for Radio 4.

· Which Way Now? 12x1 for Radio 1.

· Singles. 5 minute pilot for Radio 1.

· Beyond Belief. 30 minute pilot for Radio Four.

CORPORATE WORK

· Instructional videos for Doctor Martins and a time share company!

· Audio guides for the Victoria and Albert museum.

· East London Lines. A sequence of poems for London Underground.

STAGE (most recent)

· One Step Beyond! A musical for the Theatre Royal, Stratford East.

" A credit to the integrity of all involved... street wise dialogue, offbeat humour and warmth."
- The Evening Standard.

· I Fought Yuppie Zombies From Hell! An original musical for London Bubble.

" Great one liners....the bruises it left were from laughing too much. " - The Independent

PERFORMANCE

· The Backpassages Of Spitalfields. A theatrical walking tour through East End history, now in it's fifth year.

" A tour de farce… would make any music hall audience worth it's salt groan with laughter… the cool, alternative option. " - The Independent.