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"It鈥檚 an absolute pleasure to introduce our brilliant Voices 2025 cohort from the North and Midlands. These twelve exciting writers, all coming from different writing backgrounds, have spent the last six months taking part in workshops and attending masterclasses with industry speakers whilst working on an outline for their own original TV ideas. We know that this talented bunch will go on to tell fresh and distinctive stories and we can鈥檛 wait to watch them embark on their next steps as writers."

Esther Jackson-Burton, 蜜芽传媒 Writers Development Producer

Rachel Clynick

Rachel Clynick is a Midlands-born writer living in Leicestershire. She has a degree in English Literature and studied Creative Writing at the OU. She loves stories that make her laugh and cry in equal measure and strives for that in her writing. Motherhood and her work as a designer are the greatest challenges she faces in terms of developing her writing career but also her best sources of inspiration.

Her tastes are eclectic and current TV projects include a Victorian murder mystery, a crime thriller set in the 1970s and a dystopian drama. The comedy drama that earned her a place on 蜜芽传媒 Voices is a screen adaptation of her novel, HUMAN RACING, and explores, with candour and humour, parenting a disabled child. She鈥檚 also working on a new novel, Me Three, about the seedier side of the fashion industry.

Rachel鈥檚 writing naturally slants towards dark humour. Disability, dysfunctional relationships and female friendships are key themes in her work and she鈥檚 always looking to give a voice to working-class women and girls.

She鈥檚 thrilled to be working on a new comedy drama, AFTERBIRTH, about a woman鈥檚 descent into postnatal depression, as part of 蜜芽传媒 Voices 2025.

Rachel is currently seeking representation.

Harriet Ghost

Harriet Ghost is a writer-performer from Newcastle upon Tyne and co-founder of award-winning Hooley Theatre, which improves arts access in the North East of England. Her writing for stage includes regional touring productions Cinderella鈥檚 SnapTok, commissioned by Gala Durham, and Notice To Move, a collaboration with Armed Forces veterans. Harriet currently produces Hooley鈥檚 talent development programme, providing script-to-stage support for North East playwrights.

In 2020, she was selected for BFI鈥檚 Script Lab and BAFTA Connects scheme for women in TV and film, receiving mentorship from Aisling Bea. Harriet won New Writing North's 2023 Channel 4 Writing for Television Award, developing her series pilot, MOTHERS' MEETING, with Rollem Productions. In 2024, she was selected for the 蜜芽传媒 Writers/C蜜芽传媒 shadow scheme workshop and writers room session with The Dumping Ground production team and she most recently received an Arts Council DYCP grant to develop her play, Mam Down.

Jack Benjamin Gill

Jack Benjamin Gill is a writer and director for Film and TV, and a Screen Daily Star of Tomorrow, 2023. He is currently developing his debut feature ROB THE JOINT, with Delaval Film and Bankside. Rob the Joint (under w/t BEEF) was shortlisted for the BAFTA Rocliffe New Writing Competition for Film, 2023. In 2025, Jack was selected for the 蜜芽传媒 Writers Voices programme.

Jack鈥檚 short films have screened at numerous BAFTA and Oscar qualifying film festivals. DOGGERLAND, funded by the BFI Network and Intermission, premiered at the Oscar-qualifying HollyShorts Film Festival, followed by a theatrical run alongside the critically-acclaimed feature BOILING POINT, starring Stephen Graham.

LAMBING SEASON screened both nationally and internationally, notably winning the Audience Award at Leeds International Film Festival. The film went on to premiere online at the prestigious Short of the Week, followed by Omeleto, where it currently has over 300k views.

In 2022, Jack was selected from over 500 applicants for NETWORK@LFF, the BFI鈥檚 flagship development programme at the heart of the BFI London Film Festival. In 2020, he was offered BFI Network x BAFTA Crew Mentorship, and was paired with BAFTA award-winning Michael Pearce (BEAST, ENCOUNTER). He is a BAFTA Connect Member.

Laura Harper

Based in Manchester, Laura Harper is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter, and a graduate of the Arden School of Theatre. Her accolades include winning the WriteForTheStage Prize (2019), The Iron & Fire Award (2018), The Madeline Boden Award (2017), and runner up of the Derek Jacobi Award for New Writing (2019), to name a few.

Recently her comedy drama A QUICK GUIDE TO RUINING YOUR LIFE was optioned by Duck Soup Films, her short film SIT, has been selected for Shots London and the Lift-Off Global Network, and her full-length play VAGINA CAKE enjoyed a two-week run at Hope Mill Theatre.

Laura has been commissioned to write two end of year plays for the HNC students of Manchester College, a reaction piece for Oldham Coliseum and multiple short plays for HER Productions annual VIGNETTES series.

She is currently collaborating with HER Productions on a play about coercive control, and writing a large-scope dystopian drama for television. As well as screenwriting, she is looking for opportunities in audio drama, and she is represented by WGM Atlantic.

Emteaz Hussain

Emteaz Hussain is a screenwriter, playwright and performance poet. Currently she is writing her first feature screenplay for Warp Films. She is also attachment to the National Theatre, and is developing her first radio drama. Theatre Credits include: EXPENDABLE at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs (Dec 2024). Nottingham Playhouse鈥檚 STILL LIFE digital theatre project.  Royal Court鈥檚 鈥楲iving Newspaper鈥� (Edition 2) with her monologue STRAWBERRIES.  Her adaptation of Alex Wheatle鈥檚 CRONGTON KNIGHTS, produced by Pilot Theatre, toured the UK in 2020. Emteaz鈥檚 monologue SOCIAL DISTANCING was one of Kali Theatre鈥檚 online season of 鈥楰ali Shorts鈥�.  BLOOD for Tamasha Theatre Company, toured nationally in March 2015.  OUTSIDERS, for Pilot Theatre, went on national tour.  Emteaz鈥檚 acclaimed first play, SWEET CIDER, was produced by Tamasha Theatre Company at the Arcola Theatre in 2008 and was published in 2013 in the anthology 鈥楶lays for Today by Women鈥� by Aurora Metro Books.

TV Credits: One episode of ACKLEY BRIDGE in the fifth and final series on C4. She was listed on the 蜜芽传媒 New Talent Hotlist in 2017.  In 2016 she wrote monologue ETCHING, for 蜜芽传媒 Writersroom scheme 鈥楾he Break鈥� broadcast on 蜜芽传媒3 Online and she also contributed to Snapchat content for ACKLEY BRIDGE, online.

Nicole Joseph

Nicole Joseph is a Bradford-based Writer and Theatre-Maker, she writes women-led stories interested in the sublime, exploring marginalised characters and places, where often, she genre-bends and the ordinary meets the extraordinary, thematically and atmospherically.

In 2021, her first play, BLESSED SPIRITS, was selected as a Finborough Theatre ETPEP Award Finalist, Women鈥檚 Prize for Playwriting shortlist & 蜜芽传媒 Alfred Bradley Bursary Award longlist. The Royal Exchange Theatre supported Nicole鈥檚 professional development after selecting the play from their anonymous submissions. She completed year-long writing attachments with Tamasha Theatre and the Crucible Theatre where she wrote two new plays, including BUTTERFLY, which was showcased at Tamasha Theatre鈥檚 Come Through Festival at Birmingham Hippodrome and Theatro Technis London (2021-22).

Nicole wrote the Crucible Theatre's Young Company Production, URGENT! A TIMELY PLAY, which showed in their Playhouse and was awarded an Arts Council England Developing Your Creative Practice grant to level up her writing craft and career (2024). She recently completed a micro-commissioned extract of a modernised theatre adaptation of Anne Bronte鈥檚 THE TENANT OF WILDFELL HALL for the Bronte Parsonage Museum, workshopped by Ilkley Playhouse and Rise and Howl (2025). Nicole seeks an agent as she transitions into television writing and expands on her theatre work.

Chris O鈥機onnor

Chris O鈥機onnor is a playwright and screenwriter based in Leeds, known for exploring complex social issues through powerful human stories. His plays THE LIFE AND SOUL and THE PARTING GLASS (Red Ladder Theatre Company) tackled male mental health and toured nationally. MARCHING ON EMBERS (Buglight Theatre), a drama about post-Brexit radicalisation, was praised by the Yorkshire Post as proof that 鈥渟ome of the very best drama happens outside London.鈥� His radio play EXODUS (Leeds Playhouse/蜜芽传媒 Radio) won the O2 Media Award for Best Entertainment Programme as part of the AIRPLAYS series.

Chris currently has THROUGH IT ALL TOGETHER on at Leeds Playhouse, exploring a couple navigating a dementia diagnosis, and is adapting THE LIFE AND SOUL into a graphic novel. His writing aims to challenge assumptions, shift perspectives, and humanise the headlines we see every day.

He is a former co-host of the Mantality podcast, writes regularly on philosophy, psychology, and society on Substack, and is seeking representation to develop work for television and film.

Lucy Roslyn

Lucy Roslyn is a multi-award winning theatre maker based in the Midlands. She writes intimate, character driven pieces, often with a covertly political undertone. The work is darkly comic, always from the heart, and created with the hope that it will resonate with the audience long beyond their time watching it. She has a passion for research when it comes to historical or psychological elements, and often features the recurring theme of dubious morals. Co founder of BoonDog Theatre, Lucy鈥檚 work for stage includes PENNYROYAL (published by Nick Hern 2022) about the fracturing of a sisterhood, the love letter ORLANDO (Brits Off Broadway 2023) inspired by Virginia Woolf鈥檚 novel of the same name, and critically acclaimed PISKIE (Summerhall/Bristol Old Vic 2024) about fantastical thinking vs reality.

Lucy is excited to collaborate with a production company on both tv and film projects to create unique and compelling stories.

Muj Shah

Muj Shah is a British Pakistani actor and writer based in Bradford. He starred in 蜜芽传媒3鈥橲 COCONUT along with roles in CASUALTY (蜜芽传媒) and CITIZEN KHAN (蜜芽传媒). Muj started writing to better promote diversity and increase opportunities for people like himself. Beginning with a comic about a Muslim superhero 鈥楳aghrib鈥�, writing and illustrating it himself, he was Highly Commended as a writer in Faber & Faber鈥檚 FAB Prize. He then took an initial idea he had for a novel and developed it into a pilot script which attracted the attention of BAFTA winning Director Declan Lowney (Ted Lasso). He learnt a great deal about screenwriting through the process, whilst honing his own unique comedic voice.

Muj has completed mentorships with Charlie Hyland (Digital Commissioning Editor for Comedy at Channel 4) and Nana Hughes (Head of Comedy for ITV). He was a part of BFI FilmHub North鈥檚 ScriptLab (2023). Most recently he is working with ROPE LADDER FICTION for his comedy SHADOW PARKOUR to be developed. As well as a brand-new workplace comedy KNIGHTS which he has been developing with CANDLE & BELL. Through 蜜芽传媒 Writers Voice he's developing his first Drama BRIGHTON, BOMBAY. He's currently seeking Representation from an Agent.

Tom Smith

Tom Smith is a Sunderland-based scriptwriter with a passion for telling working-class and underrepresented stories rooted in the North of England.

His short plays have been performed at Southwark Playhouse and Alphabetti Theatre. His material has also featured on 蜜芽传媒 Radio鈥檚 DMS ARE OPEN and NEWSJACK.

In 2020, his short script reached the final round of 蜜芽传媒 InterConnected, placing in the top 8% of nearly 7,000 submissions. He went on to win the Northern Writers鈥� Award: Channel 4 Writing for Television in 2022. His comedy-drama THE GIANT AND ME was placed in the top 1% of the 蜜芽传媒 Writers鈥� Open Call 2024. Most recently, he was awarded a place on The Dumping Ground Shadow Scheme, where he wrote a trial script for THE DUMPING GROUND.

Tom has worked as a freelance storyliner for HOLLYOAKS and has developed projects with independent production companies. He is now keen to build new creative partnerships with production companies.

Represented by Christina Pickworth at Imagine Talent

Mitesh Soni

Mitesh Soni is a writer/actor based in Manchester. His writing credits include: BRIT BRED- a new play- commissioned by Box of Tricks, with a public reading at 蜜芽传媒 Theatre. Brit Bred is also a top pick by the British Black List, for shows ready for production.  He has also written  HELVES & NAITIVITY- commissioned by Box of Tricks for Arden Theatre School and TWENTY commissioned by Hive North and performed at The Lowry, Salford

His piece SICKI was commissioned by Tribe Arts, as part of Tribe Talks: Partition, for Armouries, Leeds and was nominated for a Asian Media Award.

Alongside this, Mitesh is currently working on developing TWENTY as his first short film.

Laura Waldren

Laura Waldren is a writer and actor from Hull. Her first play SOME DEMON won the 2023 Papatango Prize and premiered at the Arcola in summer 2024, before transferring to a sell-out run at the Bristol Old Vic. She currently has theatre commissions with Wessex Grove and Pentabus, for whom she was the 2023 Clive Richards Foundation Writer-in-Residence. As an actor, she trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.