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Story Development with Amanda Verlaque

36m · ScreenWorks Podcast · 16 Sep 08:00


Amanda’s career in the creative industries began as an arts and entertainment journalist writing for publications including The Irish News. She has 25 years’ award winning experience in TV drama as a script editor, storyliner, producer and executive producer for the BBC, RTE, Blinder Films and Tiger Aspect before turning her attention to writing. She has showcased plays at Outburst Queer Arts Festival and been published in flash fiction and short story anthologies. She recently executive produced On The Street Where We Live, a series of audio plays for The MAC Belfast and her play Lolly features in the series. Amanda’s play, This Sh*t Happens All The Time, about homophobic hate crime, will premiere at Belfast’s Imagine! Festival in March 2022, and Distortion produced by The MAC, will be streamed worldwide in September 2021.

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Story Development with Amanda Verlaque


Amanda’s career in the creative industries began as an arts and entertainment journalist writing for publications including The Irish News. She has 25 years’ award winning experience in TV drama as a script editor, storyliner, producer and executive producer for the BBC, RTE, Blinder Films and Tiger Aspect before turning her attention to writing. She has showcased plays at Outburst Queer Arts Festival and been published in flash fiction and short story anthologies. She recently executive produced On The Street Where We Live, a series of audio plays for The MAC Belfast and her play Lolly features in the series. Amanda’s play, This Sh*t Happens All The Time, about homophobic hate crime, will premiere at Belfast’s Imagine! Festival in March 2022, and Distortion produced by The MAC, will be streamed worldwide in September 2021.

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