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BROADCAST DEVELOPMENT

As Director and Producer John has been working with writers to develop arresting and innovative broadcast and online drama since 2000. Most recently in 2014 he led a 13-part drama series development for CBBC with a team of 3 writers for Actorshop Prods, and currently he is working on a slate of exciting projects with diverse writers often new to TV.

Creative Associates - Writers

Malcolm Campbell      

Malcolm is an award-winning screenwriter from Mansfield whose recent credits include the acclaimed feature film What Richard Did (for which he won Best Screenplay at the 2013 Evening Standard British Film Awards and Best Script at the 2014 Irish Film Awards) and BBC1’s series The White Queen. He has written for some of the UK’s most popular dramas, including Shameless and Skins. Malcolm wrote 9 of the 10 award-winning L8R Series 1 & 2 episodes and co-wrote and supervised all three L8R Youngers series. He was Lead Writer on Actorshop Productions recent series development CUZ for CBBC.

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Trish Cooke      

Trish Cooke is an award-winning author of children’s books, a theatre and TV writer, actor and presenter. Trish’s TV writing credits include the BBC’s EastEnders and the afternoon drama Doctors as well as comedy writing for programmes such as The Real McCoy (BBC), Get Up Stand Up (C4), Brothers and Sisters (BBC) and children’s programmes such as Playdays (BBC). Trish was also one of the original writers on CBBC’s Tweenies. She was part of the team working with John White on the recent CUZ series development for CBBC.

Donna Marie Dowe      

Donna graduated from the London College of Communications with an MA in Screenwriting in 2012. She successfully went through this course while working full-time - evidence of a strong commitment to screenwriting. In 2015 she wrote and then successfully produced a pilot TV comedy show Switchin, with investment she attracted on the strength of the script. In 2013, her short, The Office, won best short script at, BUFF, the British Urban Film Festival and was selected for a staged reading at Channel 4. Her 2011 pilot script for a 6 x 30min TV drama series Aint Life Funny was shortlisted by BBC Writers Room. She currently has TV ideas in development with several companies including johnwhite productions.

Paula B Stanic      

Paula grew up in Manor Park, East London and is of mixed Caribbean/Syrian descent. Her theatre writing includes What’s Lost which won the 2008 Alfred Fagon Award, (staged readings, Royal Court Downstairs & UP Theater Company, New York, 2014); Monday which headlined the Emerge New Works Festival, Leeds (Red Ladder Theatre) and was short-listed for the 2009 John Whiting/ Peter Wolff Award; 6 Minutes which was one of the plays in ‘Everything Must Go’ a response to the recession season, Soho Theatre; Under a Foreign Sky, a Theatre Centre national tour, 2011; Blair’s Children Cockpit Theatre 2013 and Steering Through Stars national tour 2015 for Tangle. Paula is one of Eclipse Theatre Company’s Revolution Mix writers 2015-2018. She currently has TV ideas in development with several companies including johnwhite productions.

David Watson      

David Watson’s first play Just A Bloke was produced by the Royal Court Theatre when he was just 17. His other plays include Flight Path (2007), for the Bush/Out of Joint, which was shortlisted for both the John Whiting and George Devine Awards, and Pieces of Vincent (2010) for the Arcola. Any Which Way (2009) an anti-knife crime play for Only Connect, written for and performed by a cast of ex-offenders, prompted this review: “David Watson is a remarkable writer – he writes with searing accuracy and without any shrill moralising” (John Peter, Sunday Times). David co-wrote L8R Series 2 Episode 2 and all three of the L8R Youngers series, two of which won Children’s BAFTAs while the third was nominated. He was part of the team working with John White on the recent CUZ series development for CBBC.

Creative Associates - Producers & Filmmakers

Rachel Bailey      

Rachel Bailey is a producer with over 15 years experience working between the film and television industry and the voluntary sector. As Development Producer at Mental Health Media she was responsible for The Mental Health Media Awards, and the ReelMadness Film Festival. As Development Director at Media for Development, Rachel was responsible for animation films made with young people in juvenile units, a programme of digital storytelling films, and Freeasabird, a multimedia peer support project for women leaving prison. Rachel produced the BAFTA nominated short drama Care, was one of the original development team with John White on Hi8us South’s BAFTA winning interactive youth drama L8R, and in 2013 co-produced the BAFTA nominated spinoff mini-series L8R Youngers 3 for BBC2/BBC Learning.

Dan Saul      

Daniel Saul is an artist filmmaker working across genres to capture stories from ordinary people and re-present them in extraordinary ways. Recent commissions have included ‘Streets of Gold’ an international exhibition at The Museum of London, ‘Serenade for a Satellite’ a theatre collaboration with The Birmingham Contemporary Music Group and artist Graeme Miller, performed at The Barbican Centre, and a series of short films made in collaboration with Protein Dance Company at Evelina Children’s Hospital. In 2012/13 Daniel worked as lead filmmaker on Poplar Young Filmmakers, two ‘First Light’ commissions made with groups of young people in Tower Hamlets, produced by John White.