Cash Carraway | Creator, Writer, Executive Producer

Cash Carraway | Creator, Writer, Executive Producer

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Cash Carraway’s career to date has been the very definition of perseverance. Her journey to creating, writing, and executive producing her debut television series, Rain Dogs (2023), has been 20 years in the making. Despite pitching ideas and scripts for decades, but never quite getting the green light, she never gave up on her dream of writing for the screen. With dark comedy drama Rain Dogs, she’s finally achieved that. The critical reviews for the series, made by Sid Gentle for the BBC and HBO and starring the likes of Daisy May Cooper, Jack Farthing, Ronkẹ Adékoluẹjo, and Adrian Edmondson, were very complimentary and full of praise for her fresh, edgy and hugely engaging storytelling.

Still, Rain Dogs’ creation and Cash’s eventual step into television was unconventional and unexpected. Cash wrote her first play, The Last Peepshow, for the Soho Theatre back in 2001. More celebrated theatre work followed, eventually bringing her to the attention of Penguin Books, which commissioned her to write a memoir. Although this was never part of the dream, Cash decided to write the book Skint Estate – published in 2019 to impressive reviews – in the style of a film treatment, with the intention that she could use it as a pitch for the screen. Then something wonderful happened...

In their own words...

“[Actor] Billie Piper read an early proof and really liked it. She passed it on to Piers Wenger, who was head of BBC drama at the time. Suddenly, I was in. It’s been 20 years of really trying and getting so close but not quite making it. Then you take this step that’s not in your plan and doors open. And even though Skint Estate never made it to screen, I found myself in a position where I could pitch shows to the right people - and one of those shows was Rain Dogs.”

“I didn’t know anyone in TV. I don’t have that kind of network. I still don’t know that many people in TV. But that’s why BAFTA Breakthrough is so great, because it gives you that networking opportunity and you are with a cohort of other artists who are breaking through at the same time.”

Cash is currently developing a sitcom with Boffola Pictures, a comedy drama with Objective Fiction, and a feature film with Playground Entertainment funded by Screen Ireland.

Cash’s breakthrough credit is for scripted television series Rain Dogs

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