New Creatives

Meet the Audio Creatives

We are happy to announce the first and second round of our New Creatives – AUDIO

Each of these 16-30 year olds are located in the South East, and are working through their journey on this scheme from idea to distribution. As our scheme carries on, we will be updating each of the pages after each call, so stay tuned for more information.

Hover over the images below to find out more about the individuals and click on them to hear their work. For more New Creatives, click the pink buttons below.

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Maddison Crease

Writer/Director/Performer (21)
Chav

Maddi Crease is an Essex-based poet who aims to heal with her work. Whilst she also greatly enjoys page poetry, her forte lies in spoken word and performative poetry and as such, you’ll find her at many an open mic, including her own events hosted for charity. From mental health pieces to works on working class culture, nearly everything she writes is produced with the intent to heal herself and her corner of the world.

Natasha Luetchford

Writer/Director/Performer (21)
Hidden Under Covers

Natasha Luetchford is a young creative; poet, artist, musician and experimenter in an ever-growing number of mediums and forms of art. Natasha is currently studying Wildlife Conservation after a foundation year in Fine Art and a year of teaching assisting for children with learning differences. Her overall ambitions are to support people (individuals and communities) through the arts with a focus on nature, wellbeing and community activism. In a time of growing concerns for young people’s mental welfare, Natasha strives to raise awareness of the anxiety herself and many others feel of losing friends to suicide, as has happened to her friendship circles with several losses in the past couple of years. Now on a new path of welcoming a new life and pregnancy after a time of grief, Natasha is taking time to focus inwards and develop her creative practice.

Gregory Arundell

Writer/Director/Performer (26)
Pete

Greg Arundell is an actor and writer originally from Norfolk. A graduate of NYT 'Playing up' company, his credits include the official adaptation of "Just William’s Luck'' by Richmal Crompton, lead puppeteer for the 2019 Cambridge festival short ‘Datacosm’, and he is also a regular performer on BBC Radio 4. Greg is very excited to be performing his poem ‘Pete’.

Shola Lee

Writer/Director/Performer (22)
The Waves

Shola Lee recently graduated from Queen Mary, University of London and Columbia University with a degree in English Literature. She is a Writer for the 2021 BAFTA X BFI Crew and Lead Creative for BBC New Creatives Programme. Currently, she works as Editor-in-Chief of the Simple Press, and has written articles for Warner Brothers, UniDays, The Columbia Spectator and more.

Ray Carter

Writer/Director/Performer (24)
Butterfly

Ray Felix Carter is an artist and performance poet living in Folkestone, Kent. Their previous spoken word work has been part of local performances and activist projects. They studied Illustration at Falmouth university and they have been working on extending their artistic and storytelling practice into other forms since their graduation in 2018. Their work considers difference and marginalisation, becoming and un-becoming, and making the world feel more like home.

Samuel Mansell

Writer/Director/Performer (23)
Tonight I Slept Well

Samuel’s creative interests include being a rapper, spoken word artist, writer and filmmaker. He has been performing in everything from ‘underground’ rap gigs to large scale theatre productions to crowded music festivals. Some highlights of his lyrical career so far have included working with award winning director Penny Woolcock (Ackley Bridge, 1 Day) for her exhibition at Modern Art Oxford in 2019 which was seen by an estimated 80,000 people Rap has been a massive part of his life, including working alongside UK Hip Hop pioneers such as Foreign Beggars and Skinnyman. The highlight of his career so far has been being cast in a documentary series working with, Jamal Edwards MBE, as one of a team of young creatives learning the in’s and out’s of the music video industry.

Theophina Gabriel

Writer/Director/Performer (24)
Close

Theophina Gabriel is an award-winning poet and freelance writer and artist from Slough. Her writing has featured on BBC Radio 1Xtra and appeared in Tower Poets Anthology, Sistah Zine and The Linden Avenue Journal amongst other publications. She studied Philosophy & Theology at the University of Oxford and after graduating worked within Penguin Random House at #Merky Books before leaving to become a freelance writer and artist. She is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief of Onyx Magazine; an award-winning independent publication dedicated to championing Black creatives and is currently working on her first short film commission.

Luke Alexander-Grose

Writer/Director/Performer (26)
Filth

Luke AG is an award-winning poet with a distinctly political message. He uses poetry and rhyme to navigate identity, society, and the narrative of his own life. Originally from Hastings, many of his poems explore his journey from a small town to a big city, with a couple of pit stops and observations along the way.

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Priyanka Jha

Writer/Co-Director (23)
Chai for Sorrow, Chai for Joy

Priyanka Jha is a Playwright and Director. She was bought up in Slough, the second daughter of Indian immigrants, and graduated from the University of Oxford with a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. She is currently studying for a Master of Fine Arts in Playwriting and Screenwriting at the University of St Andrews. Her work includes writing the short film ‘I Contain Multitudes’, produced by the Green Carnation Company for the Queer All About it monologue series, which will feature as part of the programme for Manchester’s Turn On Fest in March 2021. Priyanka also writes for the stage and her short play ‘Negative Space’ will be performed at Hope Mill Theatre as part of Hive North’s OutStageUs in April 2021. ‘Chai for Sorrow; Chai for Joy’, produced by Pier Productions for the BBC, will be Priyanka’s directorial debut and her first time writing for radio.

Philip Speakman

Writer/Director (27)
Petrichor Project

Philip is an artist based in Norfolk and London working with moving image, sound, sculpture and live events to explore fiction as a technology, often in regard to the production of particular cultural landscapes and mythologised natural spaces. He graduated from Central Saint Martins in 2017 and has shown work and hosted events at OUTPOST Gallery (Norwich), Deptford Cinema (London), and Bury Art Museum & Sculpture Gallery, Gossamer Fog (London), and TACO! (Thamesmead)’s ALW Radio show. In 2020 he was commissioned by Grizedale Arts to produce a permanent work for their Lawson Park HQ, resulting in The Err: a sculpture and accompanying workshop and events programme rescheduled to 2021.

Claire Sullivan

Writer/Director (21)
False Alarm

Claire Sullivan is a Northern Irish writer and actor studying Scriptwriting and Performance at the University of East Anglia. She is currently collaborating with BBC Arts New Creatives, Screen South and Arts Council England on False Alarm? - an audio piece centring on anxiety disorder. Claire wrote and performed Bridges for BBC Radio 4's United Kingdoms series. She was also awarded the prize for best play as part of the Northern Ireland Office 21 Artists for the 21st Century programme. Other recent work includes touring with a theatre-in-education company, performing in Paperboy (Lyric Theatre, directed by Steven Dexter and Dean Johnson) and co-writing and performing in Reset (The Mac, Belfast, directed by Fionnuala Kennedy).

Alberto Sueri

Writer/Director/Composer (29)
When Safety is a Cage and Danger is the Air

Alberto Sueri is a Composer and Sound Designer based in Luton. He completed his Masters in Music and Sound for Screen at the University of Edinburgh in 2017 and then completed an apprenticeship in Copenhagen with Danish Grammy Winning Composer Halfdan E. Alberto works in the field of Music and Sound for Media (Film, TV, Ads and Video-games). His music has been placed in television shows such as NBA, RuPaul's Drag Race, MTV:Ghosted broadcasted by channels such as MTV, TNT, CNN, Das Erste, BRAVO. In 2016, his Acousmatic music piece “Cycle in Circle” was nominated for the London King’s College “Ivan Juritz Prize”. He is the co-founder of Motif Music Production; an audio duo that focuses on original music composition and sound design for video games and television.

Tehillah Hinds

Writer/Director/Actress (25)
When Safety is a Cage and Danger is the Air

Tehillah is a science graduate, and multifaceted creative with credits in film, audio, and online productions. As a Writer and Producer, she has created content for BBC New Creatives (2020-2021), worked on multiple BBC educational series (2022) and was commissioned to create her own animated comedy web series (2021-2022). She has produced numerous short films, has worked for an award-winning live comedy production company (2021), and has won cash prizes for her work; notably winning Future Youth Records ‘Think Women 2021’ songwriting contest. She is also a music producer and actress and utilises these skills across her varied creative projects.

Christine Ubochi

Writer/Director/Composer (21)
En Justice

Christine Ubochi is a Writer/Director from London, studying English and Drama in Canterbury with a graduation date of 2021. While her film career is short, having released her first passion project in 2019, she has sought out opportunities to improve her craft. At the moment, she is working on BBC/Amazon’s upcoming show, CHLOE, as a shadow director for Amanda Boyle. EN JUSTICE is Christine’s second New Creatives production. Her first, a short film, THE SKIN I MOVE IN, was completed in 2021 and is currently being submitted to festivals. Her interests lie in the underrepresented groups of society, who have constantly been told their stories are not worth listening to, she hopes to showcase this through her storytelling.

Isobel Flower

Writer/Director (21)
Commuters

Issy Flower is a writer and actor based between Oxford and Durham. Her writing has been performed by JustOut Theatre, Kickitdown Productions, RapidReel, Sedos and Castle Theatre Company, at NSDF and the Virtual Collaborators Festival, and won ‘Best Writing’ at Durham Drama Festival 2020. Her prose writing has been published in From the Lighthouse, Lucent Dreaming, and in anthologies by Sans Press, Guts Publishing and The Common Breath.

Florence Lines

Writer/Director/Composer (25)
We are Somewhere Below the Waves

Flo Lines is a musician and sound artist. She is the station producer of a community radio station and writes music in her spare time. Her masters is in human geography, exploring the relationship between sound and extinction.

Beth Parkin

Writer/Director/Actress (25)
We are Somewhere Below the Waves

Beth Perkin is a writer, filmmaker and journalist. She is currently working on various scripts, while also shooting Behind-the-scenes content for TV and film.

Anna de Wolff Evans

Writer/Director/Composer (27)
Essex Girls

Anna de Wolff Evans is a freelance Broadcast Assistant and Researcher. She has worked on numerous audiobooks, radio dramas and factual programmes for Audible and the BBC. From a young age Anna was interested in the study of humanity and human behaviour, she went on to study Social Anthropology at Goldsmiths University. It was here that Anna began to play with the mediums of film and audio as part of her research process. Anna’s passion lies with audio documentary and human stories. She hopes to continue creating programmes that challenge our assumptions and encourage human connection through relevant and diverse storytelling.

Anna Staufenberg

Writer/Director (27)
The Sound of Beauty

Anna is a Manchester-based podcast producer from Norwich. After working in broadcast journalism she moved over into audio storytelling and podcast production, and now works as a producer for Crowd Network, leading on their documentaries and history titles. She produces the modern history podcast We Didn’t Start The Fire (one of Miranda Sawyer’s top 10 podcasts of 2021), and writes and produces Crowd's tech series ‘Dot com,’ which explores the lives and stories of the people behind the web.”

Dan Johannsen

Co Producer (23)
Longshore Shift

Dan works in Communications in Folkestone, and has a keen interest in audio and how it can be used as an art form as well a communication tool. Longshore Shift has been born out of Dan’s experience working in the Arts in Folkestone for the past 4 years and watching how it has transformed the town he spent much of his time in growing up.

Lucy Cole

Co Producer (24)
Longshore Shift

Lucy Cole is an emerging Sound Artist and Radio Presenter working in London, but drawn to the sea in her life and work. Her love of field recordings, nature, and the beauty of the everyday have found their way into her work which spans eclectic radio shows, comedy podcasts, and immersive womb sound installations. Longshore Shift is Lucy’s first paid commission and represents a further step into experimental audio work with the unpretentious beauty of everyday life at its core.

Scott Hurran

Writer/Director (30)
The Blackwater Mermaids

Scott Hurran is a Leverhulme Arts Scholar. He trained at Central School of Speech and Drama and RADA. He is the Artistic Director of Ecclesia and is currently Artistic Associate at Eastern Angles. Scott is a participate in the 2021 BFI NETWORK x BAFTA Crew programme.

Jasmine Ngosi Hanorah Ee

Writer/Director (20)
Distortion (Monachopsis)

Jasmine is an engineer with a creative flair. She has experience in theatre, dance and art but has decided to try her hand at expressing her story through audio. Through Distortion (Monachopsis), she hopes to change people’s minds and open their hearts.

Reeta Varpama

Writer/Director (30)
Princess Of Darkness

Reeta is a writer, director and an award-winning editor. She has built an extensive body of work over the course of 10+ years in both commercial and independent film. In 2013, she graduated from the Cambridge School of Art with a BA in Film & TV Production. Reeta’s short comedies have been screened in film festivals in Berlin, London, Manchester, Edinburgh, Cambridge and Norwich, and are known for their witty dialogue and playful characters. The stresses, deliberations and fundamental questions of modern life are at the core of her narrative explorations. The impending existential crises of her generation are a driving force in her work, and her ultimate goal is to help people laugh through their tears at the absurdity of it all. ‘Princess of Darkness’ is her first audio-based commission.

Eleanor Boyle

Writer/Director (19)
It's a Magical Life

Eleanor Boyle is currently doing the New Creatives Scheme to make an audio piece. She studied for GCSEs at Wye Free school and took part in the BFI film academy course. She has an interest in film, tv and radio, has built up skills through casual jobs and is currently exploring new opportunities.

Will Ford

Writer/Director/Composer/Actor (22)
Just Like Riding a Bike

Will is a comedy writer-performer and lyricist from Kent. Though still a student, he is a veteran of the London spoken word scene; the Cambridge comedy scene and the Cranbrook lockdown-sitting-at-home-writing-sitcoms-and-short-musicals-about-feelings scene. He had a very mixed record as a battle rapper (one loss, one win, retired.)

Alfred James White

Writer/Director (22)
Plumpton Village Kazoo Orchestra

Alf White is a new stand up comedian and comic writer. He Graduated from the University of Kent in 2020 with a First Class degree in Drama and Theatre, receiving the Eric Barker Prize for outstanding achievement in comedy. Whilst still at university, he performed on bills alongside some of the biggest names in UK comedy including Jamali Maddix, Nish Kumar and Josie Long His comedy is characterised by its surreal nature and has been praised for its creativity and originality. During the COVID-19 lockdown, he turned his attention to writing. Plumpton Village Kazoo Orchestra is his first comedy script. He spends much of his time in a high street clothes shop in Crawley, an activity for which he receives regular financial remuneration.

George Morgan

Writer/Director (25)
Grandma's Home

My name is George Morgan and I’m an Essex based video artist and writer-producer who has been commissioned by RADA, BBC Arts, Screensouth and Arts Council England. I was recently selected for the BFI NETWORK South East producers programme in addition to being invited as one of seven writers to take part in the Mercury Theatre playwright programme, led by Kenny Emson. I gravitate towards stories that unapologetically explore the intersectionality of the Black British experience through historical and contemporary narratives. The growing exploration of my ancestral roots uncover an influx of hidden stories, people and places that will inevitably bring previous empires and current institutions into a dramatic form with an investigative exploration at the heart of it.

Simon Wade

Writer/Director (30)
Night Comes on

Simon has been writing and directing for the last 10 years across commercials, short films and music videos, with his award winning films ‘A Private Man’, ‘Jake the Magnificent’ and web series ‘Then & Now’ playing at festivals internationally from Beijing, Moscow and London. His short film ‘Huntington Gardens’ was commissioned by Sky Arts and is available on demand now. Having worked predominantly in film, Night Comes On, is his first experience in audio drama.

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Sam Wise

Director/Writer (29)
Disorder

Sam is a serial creative, writer and communicator whose passion lays in the exploration of communication and narrative using film, audio and music. As well as being an accomplished musician, Sam’s day job is in public relations helping business and local councils communicate through video. With a series of credits in both film and music, Sam is continuing to pursue future projects.

Toby Loxton

Writer/Director (23)
Unpretended

Toby is a young, independent and passionate freelance filmmaker. Through his exploration of filmmaking in his college days, he found his passion for this medium. Toby is currently studying digital film production and screenwriting at the University of Chichester, after which he plans to start working full time in the media industry where he can and continue to develop his voice. Toby has his own freelance production company, TFL Creative Media, which he started in 2015. His ultimate goal is to write and direct his own series of TV Drama.

Ben Hewerdine

Writer/Director (25)
The Graveyard Shift

Ben Hewerdine is an audio creative who has made and been involved with numerous musical projects to hone his craft. Turning to his own experiences with the mental health system he felt writing a short play was the best way to communicate his struggle, whilst incorporating his musicality.

Philippa Carew

Writer/Director (18)
Arthur

Philippa Carew is an early career writer/director based in Manchester, she is currently studying joint honours in English and Film Studies. She has completed the BFI Break into film course at Pinewood Studios in 2019 and has been writing film and radio scripts ever since. Her work is inspired largely by social justice movements and the fairy tales she listened to as a child. She hopes to use media to make a range of diverse and unique perspectives accessible to a wide intersection of society. She is excited to continue her creative journey with her first commission from BBC New Creatives.

Sofie Drew

Writer/Director (17)
No Escape

Sofie Drew is a young creative based in Oxford who currently attends Sixth Form and loves to write in her spare time. NO ESCAPE is her first major project within the audio industry and she hopes to pursue this career further. She takes inspiration for her writing from poets such as Anne Carson.

Sam Hawkins

Director/Composer (28)
The Things We Keep

Sam Hawkins is an independent producer from the UK. Interested in sound recording and reproduction, he joined Aston Microphones in 2020. In his current role he enjoys inspecting microphones and responding to technical queries. Sam holds a Masters in Radio Production from Bournemouth University.

Ollie Paterson

Writer/Director (22)
Click

Ollie Paterson (Kent, UK) is a freelance writer/ filmmaker and spoken word poet. With an affinity for images and stories, he is always searching for the most vivid external and internal states and transcribing them into character, narrative, or lyric. He has featured on BBC radio performing his poetry and continues to make work in Rotterdam, South Holland. His focus when approaching a new project, is to create something that speaks with its own autonomy and breathe life of its own.

Sophie Gresswell

Writer/Narrator (29)
Recovery

Sophie Gresswell is a multi-disciplinary artist exploring identity and belonging. After graduating with a first in Fine art from the University of Northampton in 2012, Sophie travelled on an artist residency to Shenzhen in Southern China in 2013, and has had artworks exhibited internationally. In 2018 Sophie was awarded Arts council funding to create a responsive public art and audio installation entitled ‘Luton Journeys’. In 2019 Central Bedfordshire Council commissioned her to develop a projection installation for The Dunstable Centre with local young people. In late 2019 Sophie wrote, animated and starred in the short film ‘Where are you from?’ commissioned by BBC arts and Arts Council England as part of the New Creatives program, the film was first shown on BBC 4 in March 2020 and has since been featured in the Fringe of Colour arts festival.

Aidan Sharples

Writer/Director (22)
Blunt Trauma

Aidan has been working as a freelancer filmmaker in Sound since 2018, with this primarily being as a Boom Operator. He does however hope to further develop Blunt Trauma into a feature film, as a future aspiration of his. The piece has long been a passion project of his, being closely inspired by his early life and shared family experiences growing up in Folkestone, Kent, around the early 2000's. He continues to develop a feature length script of Blunt Trauma and hopes to pitch the idea it in its completion in the future. Whilst he also continues his freelance sound work, both in production and post-production capacities.

Joanna Maxwell

Writer/Director (24)
My Never Days

Joanna is a Norfolk based actor, director and scriptwriter. Having recently graduated from Sheffield Hallam University studying BA Performance for Stage and Screen. Studying at university meant that she trained in various aspects of performance, her love for script writing was sparked within a module called ‘Broadcast Radio’ where she and her peers had to wrote, directed and performed a mockumentary around the running of a local railway station. Prior to University, Joanna has been involved with a number of productions with various local companies. Joanna was a member of ‘Second Side Theatre Company’, she played a number of leading roles that toured to venues such as Latitude, Old Red Lion Theatre and a variety of theatres within Norfolk and Suffolk.

Ben Nobuto

Composer (24)
Where parallel lines meet

Ben Nobuto is a British/Japanese composer and pianist from Kent. He graduated from the University of Cambridge in 2019 with a Distinction in Music, specialising in composition. His works have been performed in both the UK and the US by ensembles such as Ligeti Quartet, Invoke Quartet and Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, and his flexible and pluralistic approach to music-making has led him to collaborate with a wide range of artists, from interdisciplinary and experimental artists to documentary-makers and video-game developers. As a performer he is also active, performing as a finalist in Nonclassical’s Battle of the Bands in January 2020, as well as being chosen to perform for UK New Artists (UKNA)’s Leicester City Takeover in early 2021.

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Amelie Edwards

Writer/Producer/Co-Director (28)
5 Years From Now

Amelie started out as a Medieval History graduate before training at East 15 acting school in 2012. Since then she has supported the Young Vic as a researcher for some of their more historical plays including Pope Joan, directed by Abbey Wright. In 2014 she was a founding member of Boireannach theatre company and later The Mighty Pen, who created 3 seasons of new writing for festivals around London.

Lucy Walters

Writer/Director (28)
Company

Lucy Walters is a freelance writer, designer and filmmaker based in Oxford, UK. Having previously written short stories and flash fiction, this is her first project writing for audio.

Kallen Daynes

Director (22)
Online

Whilst studying at university Kallen developed an interest in radio dramas and documentaries interning on Radio 4’s THE ARCHERS and producing two podcasts; THE GEEKY BRUMMIE podcast and VERSE FIRST. He also started a pop-up radio station called FADE Radio and executively produced its documentary programming. Since graduating he continues to produce and direct a variety of documentaries and radio dramas.

Taylor Jack Smith

Writer/Director (24)
Foot Fall

Taylor Jack Smith (b.1995) is and artist, filmmaker and writer from Southend-on-Sea in Essex. A recent graduate from the Slade School of Fine Art, his work attempts to engage with the reciprocal relationship between our sense of place and the human experience that it defines. Recent exhibitions and screenings include, The Bloomberg New Contemporaries at Leeds Art Gallery and the South London Gallery, the Big screen Southend with Focal Point Gallery and New Galaxies, Vienna.

Ren Scott-Bridge

Writer/Director (19)
Train of Thought

Ren Scott-Bridge recently started studying for a filmmaking degree at the University of Sussex. Driven by a curiosity and compelled to create, Ren is a keen writer of screenplays. TRAIN OF THOUGHT is his first experience as a writer/director of a dramatic audio narrative. Interested in social commentary, his piece explores mental health issues from both doctor and patient perspectives: each has a story to tell – and each deserves to be heard.

Philip Mill

Writer/Director (28)
The Bittern Line

Philip Mill is a sound recordist, musician and wildlife sound enthusiast from Colchester, Essex. Recording across a number of places in the UK and Europe. Previously studying music technology at the University of Essex and Sound Art at the London College of Communication. His main interests are in Field Recording and Location Sound. He is also a member of the Wildlife Sound Recording Society.

Tom Van Overloop

Writer/Director (21)
Alfie

Tom is screenwriter and award winning filmmaker currently undertaking a Masters in Screenwriting at the National Film and Television School. Tom currently has a number of writing credits to his name, including five short films and a feature film spanning a variety of genres ranging from psychological thrillers to family dramas.

Tolly Robinson

Writer/Director (29)
The Internexit

Tolly is a writer and director based in Brighton. He loves that sci-fi has the ability to look at the real world in new ways and feels that radio and podcasts can bring these ideas to life in ways only audio can. Tolly is talking about himself in the third person.

Bruno De Oliveira

Producer/Director/Writer
Mocha Love

Bruno is a producer, actor, director and script writer who has worked on multiple short films and sketches. Currently working for a digital media company has a project manager; Bruno is helping create more cinematic content in the advert space.

Chris Bradbury

Director/Composer (29)
A Fenland Symphony

Chris is a musician and sound designer from Cambridge. He has worked independently as a sound technician and performing musician at venues and festivals across the UK and Europe. Most notably touring with Boo Hewerdine (The Bible/Eddi Reader) for the ‘Swimming In Mercury’ album. Chris currently lives in Helsinki, working around southern Finland on audio and sound production and studying a Sound and Sonic Arts masters module at Helsinki University Of Arts (Taideyliopisto). Recently his radio work was nominated for an award with Kaiku-radiomainoskilpailu (Echo Radio Ad competition), and his short radio art piece ‘Kylmä Sota’ was accepted into the 60 Seconds Radio Festival in Montreal. He completed the first iteration of a sound sculpture piece which went on display in Helsinki in Dec 2021.

Hannah Tookey

Producer/Dramatist (28)
Two By Two

Hannah is a producer whose dynamic work highlights contemporary social and political issues. In 2019 she produced the BFI & BBC Arts funded documentary short ill, actually, the narrative short After the Sea and the experimental documentary short Wargames through the BFI & Film London’s ‘London Calling’ scheme. Founding her own production company This Little Rock in 2019, her first documentary feature Into the Sheets was selected for Meet the Execs at Sheffield Doc/Fest. In 2019, she developed an Arts Council England funded audio documentary about women’s experiences in politics, which premiered at DARE Festival. Hannah was selected for the BFI NETWORK x BAFTA Crew 2019, as well as BAFTA’s Guru Live Access Pass scheme 2019.

Izzy Radford

Writer/Director (21)
The Making of an Education

IZZY RADFORD is a writer, performer and development assistant producer. Her television pilots have placed in competitions hosted by HatTrick Productions (DERRY GIRLS) and the BBC Writersroom. Izzy is currently developing her debut hour for the stage with ‘Farnham Maltings’. Her first professional writing, directing and acting credit was for BBC Arts at 18 with her piece ‘The Making of an Education’ and she continues to work in the audio space with ‘Broken Silence Theatre’. Her play ‘The woman who sent the nurses away’ will premiere at the Brighton fringe ‘22. Izzy has worked for multiple television companies on both unscripted and scripted content. She also has professional experience with public speaking and social media management. Izzy also has a strong following online with her comedy sketches and poetry which have amassed over 2.5 million likes and upwards of 51,000 followers, largely on TikTok. She has trained at The National Youth Theatre and Soho Theatre.

Max Elgar

Writer/Director (25)
Torment

Max Elgar is an independent Writer, Director and D.O.P with an educational background in Film Studies and Film and TV Production. He has an interest in telling the stories of underrepresented characters through a fantastical or mythical lens. He has experience in Podcasting, Film production, and writing. He has most recently worked in association with the Globe Theatre and with the BBC New Creatives initiative. His aim is to continue to produce drama and documentary content that blends the harsh realities and struggles of daily life with mythological and sci fi elements. Max is currently engaged in an MA in Film and TV Production, after which he intends to maintain a level of involvement and productivity in creative industries of all types.

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Max Barrett

Writer/Director (20)
The Day the Internet Stood Still

Max is a Writer, Director, Broadcast Assistant, Presenter and Podcast host based in Canterbury. He studies at Canterbury Christ Church University. This is Max’s first narrative radio piece and works at BBC Radio Kent. Max’s most notable other narrative work was his writing credit on The Marlowe Theatre show “To Be Decided.” As well as yearly features in the first writes showcase. Max also runs the My Generation Podcast on YouTube.

Frazer Merrick

Sound Artist (28)
Hidden Sounds of Essex's Coastal Arcades

Frazer Merrick is a sound artist who uses both field recordings and synthesis to explore the act of play through improvisation and interactivity. His installation art sits somewhere between collaborative multiplayer computer game and generative musical instruments, creating interactive experiences that transform a space or object.

Anthony Mower

Director/Creative Lead/Writer (21)
A Messy Mentality

In some shape or form Anthony has been into creative writing all his life. The whole process of creating this piece has been a kind of catharsis and one of the reasons he wanted to make this piece was to hopefully close that chapter in his life. This story is of Anthony’s personal growth and he hope someone can see that and find some connection with their story and his own.

Scarlett Smyth

Writer and Creative Director (24)
Paradise Island

Scarlett Smyth is a multidisciplinary artist that shares a love and long spanning relationship with poetry. She is genuinely interested in individual’s stories and different ways of capturing these. Scarlett generally creates from lived experiences and had recently created a Channel 4 Random act, named Daily Cycle, touching on a theme that was personal to herself. She Practiced Fine art at the University of The West Of England, Bristol and was presented with The Empringham art award, as well as the STARS In Art Bristol care leaver’s award. She is now looking to publish a book which laid down the foundations to her most recent work, Paradise Island, a sound sculpture, Commissioned by BBC New Creatives.

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