Current Work (2020) Musicals

The Ghost of Leslie Howard
Book by Abi Grant, music and lyrics by Noel Coward

Maisie!
Book by Abi Grant, music by Mike Lindup, lyrics by Barb Jungr
Based on the novel Goodbye Hamilton by Catherine Cookson

Script Editor
The Comedy Channel
Mar 2020 – Nov 2020
Producer Ben Worsfield, Exec Producer Lucy Robinson

Ghostwriter
Elliott and Thompson – independent book publisher
2015-2019
Four books (one military, two business, one political)

Online Producer
BBC World Service
Mar 2015 – Apr 2017
New Broadcasting House

Copy editing:
Alistair Cooke ‘Letter From America – BBC Digital (2012)

Books:
Words Can Describe Picador – Sunday Times Best Seller

Print journalism:
TV reviewer/previewer (seven years)
The Daily Telegraph
Selected reviews online include:
Gossip Girl
How Young Can I Get?
Battlestar Galactica
Boston Legal
Storyville: The Orthodykes.
Grey’s Anatomy.
Cooking in the Danger Zone.
The Reich Underground.
Stargate SG-1

Features for:
The Daily Mail
The Daily Express
The Sun (God help me)

Stand up:
For Reginald D Hunter:
Pride and Prejudice and Niggas – 2006 Writer’s Guild Award for Comedy (director/writer)
F*ck You in the Age of Consequence (writer/director/assoc producer).
Trophy Nigga (writer)
In the Midst of Crackers (writer)
Have I Got News For You (writer)

Children’s TV:
Thomas the Tank – HiT (script editor/head writer) BAFTA nomination 2007
Jack and the Pack – HiT (script editor/head writer)
Sooty and Sweep – HiT (script editor/head writer)

West End Theatre:
Radio Times – Olivier Nominated
Starring: Tony Slattery
Book: Abi Grant
Music: Noel Gay
Dir: David Gilmore
Birmingham Rep/Queen’s Theatre Shaftsbury Avenue

Radio Times Revival:
Starring: Gary Wilmot
Book: Abi Grant
Music: Noel Gay
Director: Caroline Leslie
Watermill Newbury + tour (2012)

Agents:
John Rogerson @ Collective Agents
213 Oxford Street
London W1D 2LF