Biography
AWARDS
Winner of the Sabotage Comedy Icon competition for best stand-up comedian. Runner up in Windows Live Spaces Stand-up Comedian competition. Audience favourite at Absolute Moose end of Stand Up and Deliver Course Showcase at the Edinburgh fringe 2007. Shortlisted for UKFC 25 Words or Less Competition. Longlisted for BBC3 Last Laugh End of Sitcom Competition. Twice selected for first round of TAPS: (for the drama award and the comedy writing award). Awarded MA fees by Equity Trust Fund. WRITER/PERFORMER
2008/2009
GETTING IT OFF MY CHEST - one-woman stand-up touring show. Clip on youtube: Janice at the Myers Studio. Janiceday.co.uk
2006/2009
MRS PINKERTON-LOVELY AND HER LITTLE STRINGED INSTRUMENT 1930s musical comedy character cabaret with baritone ukulele. Mrspinkerton-lovely.co.uk.
2008/2009
Stand-up comedian on the circuit.
FILMS
2009
ERROR OF JUDGEMENT - political drama feature commissioned by Stephen Less
THE STEWARDESS - romantic comedy feature commissioned by Wiedemann & Berg Filmproduktion, co-writing with Barbara Jago.
2008
EMILY'S SHOP - romantic comedy feature commissioned by Stephan Ottenbruch at Life Entertainment, co-written with Jez Freedman
2006/2008
HARRY'S MONA LISA - English caper romcom feature commissioned by and in development with PGW Productions. 4th draft analysed by Linda Seger; 5th draft currently being written
TV
2009
FAME AT LAST - situation comedy co-written with Raymond Allen (SOME MOTHERS DO 'AVE 'EM) in progress
2008
UNDERCOVER - feature length pilot for a TV series commissioned by Stephen Less & Pete Sawyer, co-written with Andrew Taft.
RADIO
2009
SUGAR - comedy radio drama in progress
2009
GETTING IT OFF MY CHEST - radio drama adaptation of comedy cancer memoir in progress
2002
DON'T GIVE UP YOUR DAY JOB 14 three minute radio scripts, which were broadcast on Riverside FM peak time, July/August 2002
PROSE
2009
GETTING IT OFF MY CHEST, comedy breast cancer memoir described by the Bookseller as "particularly witty and touching" published by Old Street
THE THRILLING ADVENTURES OF LUCY PASCOE, romantic comedy novel in progress
SHORT STORIES
2007
Short Story GOOD ENOUGH published in July 2007 issue 4 of the monthly fiction supplement of Woman's Weekly Magazine
2003
Short Story ON THE TABLE published in May 13 issue of Bella Magazine
1995
Short Story THE INCIDENT OF THE THREE LEGGED PRAM published in: A FRESH START: AN ANTHOLOGY OF POETRY & PROSE FOR WRITERS IN THE NORTH-EAST SURREY AREA
ARTICLES
2002/2009
Continuing to publish articles in ScriptWriter Magazine (now Twelvepoint.com):
MAKE ME LAUGH (Issue 4); CAN YOU WRITE FOR DIFFERENT MEDIA? (Issue 5); WHO TRAINS THE TRAINERS? (Issue 7); WRITING CONFERENCES (Issue 10); IT'S ALL IN THE SCRIPT! ISN'T IT? (Issue 13). THE TIME HAS COME (a report on the BSCW Networking Day) and a REVIEW OF THE HAUGE AND VOGLER CD SET: THE WRITERS' TWO JOURNEYS (Issue 16); AN INTERVIEW WITH STEVEN MOFFAT, WRITER OF COUPLING (Issue 17); TRUBY'S WAY WITH GENRE (Issue 22); COMEDY: NO LAUGHING MATTER; (An interview with Paul Mayhew-Archer, Issue 27). PUTTING THE STORY ON THE SCREEN (Review of Charles Harris' Screen-Lab course) Issue 34; RADIO DAY (Review of Paul Bassett Davies course) Issue 46
2004
PUT DOWN THE KNITTING published in Jan/Feb issue of The Singer
2004
SCREENWRITING: FIRST THINGS FIRST article published in Jan/Feb/Mar issue of Mslexia
2003
Sleeve notes for first album of THE BLUE DEVILS ORCHESTRA
2003
Interview of literary agent, JANE JUDD, published in September 2003 issue of Writers Forum
EDUCATION
2004/2005
MA in Screenwriting at the London College of Communication, University of the Arts (formerly the London College of Printing). Deferred due to professional commissions
1994
Two term Adult Education course in Creative Writing
1978
Graduated from Birmingham University with BA in English
OTHER
2009
Making a Living out of Writing and Networking: two speaking events at Screenwriters' Festival Cheltenham
2008
EON Productions Development Workshop
2007
Networking Workshop for Southern Writers Conference
2007
Organised marketing team for Screenwriters' Festival Cheltenham
2005-7
Organised Masterclasses in Scriptwriting for ScriptWriter Magazine
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