I was an actor for five years and an advertising copywriter for twenty, but it's taken me two decades to remember that I forgot to become a screenwriter.
Halfway through a Master's in Scriptwriting in the UK (yep, I'm a Brit) I found my metier. I now run a thriving networking group, Scriptwriters & Co, to unite writers and affiliates across the performing arts and (thanks to Zoom and Covid-19) the world.
In the last year I’ve penned a witty yet tear-jerking full-length tragicomedy for the stage, several short film scripts and a stylish film noir psychological thriller with two female leads - VOYEUSE - that's so far won five awards at international film festivals.
I've recently written FADE OUT on the pilot ep of HONEYLOVE, a 8-episode TV series that intertwines the lives (and sex lives) of people who work for a sex toys company.
Screenplays include:
VOYEUSE (TV pilot/potential feature - psychological relationship drama): After a vulnerable teenage girl falls for a beautiful but narcissistic movie director, she finds herself the unwitting star of an intimate and incriminating film. WINNER: Best Pilot Screenwriting category at the Olympus Film Festival in LA in 2019; Best TV Series Pilot Screenplay at the Amsterdam New Renaissance Film Festival in 2020; FINALIST: The Golden Script Competition; Hollywood Just For Shorts Festival; Out Of The Can International Film Festival.
BRAINBOX (in development): A family decides their 12-year-old daughter has reached her sell-by date when she starts behaving disruptively.
DON'T COME HOME: Separated three days from one another, a coughing woman needs her partner more than ever, but can’t let him come home until he’s done what he has to do.
KAORI (short film - drama): When his stunning but arrogant wife is unfaithful again, a loving husband takes the ultimate revenge.
ONLY THOU (short film - drama): An elderly man reminisces with his wife about their relationship through the decades, and the promise that she broke.
HOOKED (short film - drama/comedy): A young couple are in bed after sex, and the eavesdropping woman downstairs is equally satisfied.
Plays include:
CAGED BIRD (gender-neutral full-length tragicomedy for 6-10 actors: A middle-aged woman unexpectedly finds herself online dating after her husband develops MS. LONGLISTED: BBC Writers Room Drama category and Papatango contest.
SPROUTS (dark and nasty 620-line, 34-page verse play in strict meter, for older children and adults): A young boy who grows vegetables on his head instead of hair takes revenge on the villagers who mock him.
SHORT AND CURLIES(15-minute play based on experience): Auditioning actresses allow themselves to be sexually assaulted in plain sight to prove themselves to a male director.
At this stage in my career I'm looking for producers to get some of this stuff made!
You can find me at www.zannac.co.uk and https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4196674
