The script selection jury for this year’s BAFTA Rocliffe New Writing Forum focused on Comedy writing talent will be:
Andrew Newman – Founder, Spelthorne Community Television- Jury Chair (Producer – Toast of London, Peep Show, Big Bad World, Fresh Meat)
Shane Allen – Controller, Comedy Commissioning Television BBC
David Quantick – Writer (The Thick of it, Veep, TV Burp, Rob Brydon Show)
Margot Gavan Duffy – Head of Comedy, Tiger Aspect (Benidorm, Boy Meets Girl, This Is Jinsy, Little Crackers)
Rachel Springett – Commissioning Editor, Comedy Channel 4 (Chewing Gum, Toast of London, Drifters, Black Mirror)
Saskia Schuster – Commissioning Editor, ITV Comedy (Plebs, Benidorm, Birds of a Feather)
Richard Watsham – Director of Commissioning, UKTV (Red Dwarf, Undercover, Hoff the Record, Crackanory)
Jim Field Smith – Director (Stag, The Wrong Mans, Episodes) and writer (Fur TV, Death Wish Live)
Ash Atalla – Managing Director, Roughcut TV (Cuckoo, People Just do nothing, Trollied)
The jury are selecting the Finalist and Forum List scripts from the scripts Long-Listed by the Panel.
The Panel will include:
Carrie Matthews – Comedy Agent & Producer
Elaine Gracie – Writer & Actor
Joe McVey – Comedy Development Executive, Objective Fiction
Denise Hicks – Co-founder and Director, LOCO & The LOCO London Comedy Film Festival
Charlie Coombes – Scripted Development AP, CPL Productions Ltd
Matthew Barry – Writer, Interns, Banana
Richard Boden – Director of Programmes, Delightful Industries + Comedy producer/director, (The IT Crowd, Count Arthur Strong, Blackadder Goes Forth)
Susan Jacobson – Director, Pistachio Pictures
Janette Linden – Agent, PBJ Management
Emma Obank – Casarotto
Hollie Ebdon – Agent, Ebdon Management
Saurabh Kakkar – Head of Development Comedy, bigtalkproductions (Dirk Gently, White Van Man)
Sam Michell – TV and Radio Producer, BBC (People Time, In And Out Of The Kitchen)
