Biographies

Julie Everton 07933 249142

Prize winning playwright, screenwriter, script editor and writing coach.

Career History

Writing Credits include

• 2010 Arts Council Funding for new play

• Inaugural Playwriting Award, Southampton University NY

• Crossroads (five episodes for Carlton TV), also involved in story conferencing for the series

• Down To Earth (BBC drama series) as part of their mentored New Writers for Drama series scheme

• Breast Stroke, a short screenplay for teenagers.

• Writer and director of Smile, lunchtime short at the Soho Theatre, London (Focus Group)

• Fire Starting for Chelsea Centre Theatre, dir. Helen Alexander

• Sun Milk, rehearsed reading dir Vicky Featherstone for Paines Plough TC

• A Place in the Country dir. Maria Pattinson, Angels on Bicycles TC Regional Tour

• Bluebirds dir Hettie Macdonald, Royal Court reading, and Sphinx Theatre dir. Phyllis Nagy

• Member of the Royal Court Writers Group

• Writer-in-residence, Royal National Theatre Studio

• Hotch Potch House, CBBC

• Pig in A Poke, Winner of the Royal Court Young Writers Festival , dir. Tamsin Oglesby, at Royal Court Theatre and National Tour

Script editing work includes

• Adaptation of Patchwork Planet, HBO/Ruby Films (in development)

• Script editor on Shipwreck Ruudi, for Allfilm, in Estonia

• Script editor on Digital Shorts  Screen South

• Script consultant on Snow Cake by Angela Pell, (Revolution Films. Baby Cow) premiered Berlin Film Festival

• Numerous projects with independent writers

Teaching work includes

• 2010 University of Brighton Journalism and Screenwriting Modules

• University of Sussex, Online screenwriting course, CCE

• Lighthouse Film and Video courses in screenwriting

• New Writing South and Theatre Royal – Drawing Room 6 month residency in playwriting

• Patcham High, Film making Summer school

• Blatchington Mill,  20 week First Light Film making Project

• Numerous writing residencies in schools and community

• Drama Teacher to GCSE Sion Secondary School Worthing

• Writing workshop leader, Queenspark Books, Brighton

Education & Training

• 2009
  Script reading for TV Script Factory Course

• 2008
  Script reader course, Comedy and Adaptation  Script Factory

• 2006
  Screen Insiders at Gothenburg Film Festival, Script Factory

• 2004
  North by North West Feature Writing training (script editor)

• 2003
  Life Coaching Qualification (Merit)UK Life Coaching Academy

• 2001
  BBC TV Drama Series selected writer on New Writers for Drama Series scheme

• 2000-1
  Lighthouse Script Breakfast screenwriting development

• 1997
  BBC Radio Drama  - New writers for radio scheme

• 1997
  Performing Arts Lab – Theatre Writing for Young People Postgraduate Diploma in Dramatic Writing, University of Sussex

• 1988
  MA 20^th Century English, University of Sussex

• 1987
  BA Hons English First Class, Leicester University

• 1984
  4 A levels (all grade A’s) and 2 S levels (grade 1) Haybridge High School, Hagley