蜜芽传媒

"Mae'n bleser gennym gyhoeddi ein carfan dalentog o un ar ddeg o awduron sydd wedi eu henwi yn Lleisiau Cymru eleni.

We are thrilled to announce our talented cohort of eleven writers who are this year鈥檚 Welsh Voices. It has been a delight to work with them over these last six months, as they have developed their television ideas into a series outline and honed their creative skills through masterclasses from industry experts.

Our cohort has been working on an exciting and eclectic mix of television ideas which showcase their distinctive individual voices. These stories include: a Welsh Downton Abbey but with murder, mayhem and scandal; a husband seemingly back from the dead with a mysterious mission; and a true and inspiring story of the women who operated Britain鈥檚 canal network during the war, battling spies and the Luftwaffe, and played a key part in helping win WWII.

We can鈥檛 wait to see what great things our 2025 Welsh Voices go on to do next!"

Celi Fowler, Commissioning Executive and Elise Gallagher, Development Co-ordinator

Sh么n Dale-Jones

Sh么n Dale-Jones, 鈥渢he great Welsh storyteller鈥� and 鈥渓egend of the Edinburgh Festival鈥� (The Stage), is an award-winning writer based in Bristol. He has created over 30 theatre plays which have toured to over 200 UK venues and been presented at 9 London theatres, including Barbican, Royal Court and Soho Theatre. His work has been staged in 20 countries across 6 continents, including Sydney Opera House, Meyerhold Theatre, Moscow and Barrow Street Theatre, New York. He has been translated into 7 languages and been published by methuen. He has won the Scotsman鈥檚 Fringe First twice, alongside a Total Theatre Award, M-ie Award and Three Weeks Editors Award. His radio plays have won the 蜜芽传媒 Audio Award for Best Scripted Comedy Drama (FLOATING), the Tinniswood Award for Best Radio Script (CRACKING) and he has been nominated for a Prix Europa (THE DUKE).

Sh么n is currently part of the 蜜芽传媒 Writer鈥檚 scheme - 蜜芽传媒 Voices. He is developing a number of TV projects, working on a new stage play, STORIES FROM AN INVISIBLE TOWN - which tours the UK this autumn - as well as developing his multi-platform piece SNOWDONIA IS NOT LIKE NEW YORK.

Owen Davies

Owen Davies is a Cardiff-based writer and director from Rhoose, South Wales. His most recent short film as a writer is MAULED BY A DOG, which has played at festivals including Fantastic Fest, SXSW London, Tallinn Black Nights and London Short Film Festival. He is currently developing a feature version with 蜜芽传媒 Films and Pulse Films, which was featured as part of the BFI-backed UK Next Wave Genre Lab.

Owen previously wrote and directed ARWEL'S HOUSE, which was funded by the 蜜芽传媒 and Ffilm Cymru and premiered at the On Vous Ment festival in Lyon. He also co-wrote/co-produced/co-edited FACE DOWN IN THE BACK OF A CAR, which was nominated for the BAFTA Cymru award for Best Short Film and played at P脰FF, LSFF and This is England, and co-directed BECOMING A LEGEND, which was part of the Milan Machinima Festival VRAL programme in 2021.

In 2023, he completed an MA in Filmmaking from LUCA School of Arts in Brussels, on a full scholarship provided by the Flemish government. Owen is also co-founder of film collective SCYMRU and co-editor of Welsh magazine The Paper.

Lizzie Fitzpatrick

Lizzie Fitzpatrick is a freelance writer and director based in Cardiff. Studying English Literature at Cardiff University and graduating in 2014, her first foray into directing was in 2015, with a production of Translations by Brian Friel at Llanover Hall.

When based in London, she was selected for Soho Theatre Writer's Lab 2017/18 and completed a short course in Directing with Central School of Speech and Drama in 2017. She has directed various one act plays at festivals and scratch nights in Cardiff and London.

Her screenplay EXES FOR THE APOCALYPSE was optioned with Story Horse Pictures Ltd in August 2023 with development support from Ffilm Cymru Wales. This queer zombie rom-com would be her first professional screen credit. This screenplay secured her a place with 蜜芽传媒 Voices 2025 and she has been developing her first TV Series FLU$H.

She continues to write for stage and screen and has a keen interest in LGBTQ+ and womxn-centric narratives. While her writing tends to skew towards the comedic, she writes across both drama and comedy. She is drawn to uplifting stories with a particularly escapist and socialist kick.

Oliver Gabe

Oliver is a writer and director from South Wales.

His short films include TIM THE BASTARD, which won the British Award at Depict, and SIN EATER, funded by the 蜜芽传媒 and Ffilm Cymru, which won Best Welsh Short at the British Short Film Awards.

He was recently selected for the BFI鈥檚 UK Next Wave Genre Lab and is currently co-writing MAULED BY A DOG, a feature film in development with Pulse Films and 蜜芽传媒 Films.

His next short film, PRINCESS MAFIA, is in post-production, while SCAB, funded by Ffilm Cymru through their Beacons scheme and produced by Riot Time Pictures, is set to shoot later this year.

Oliver is a co-founder of SCYMRU, a collective of filmmakers dedicated to building a new Welsh cinematic movement, and is an editor and the creative director of THE PAPER, an independent, culture magazine from Wales dedicated to platforming outsiders, fuck-ups, weirdos and anyone else in between.

He is interested in the sad, the strange, and the beautiful.

Niall Grant-Rowlands

Niall Grant-Rowlands is a Welsh writer based in Cardiff. Crediting his love of soap operas as one of the biggest reasons he started writing, he鈥檚 gone on to place himself in that world, with experience storylining with EMMERDALE (ITV), writing episodes of Welsh-language soap ROWND A ROWND (Rondo Media) and is currently script editing on the 蜜芽传媒鈥檚 longest-running television soap POBOL Y CWM.

Currently, he鈥檚 preparing to write an episode of EASTENDERS (蜜芽传媒) after being commissioned thanks to his participation in the EastEnders Writers鈥� Studio scheme.

Voices is Niall鈥檚 first foray into fully workshopping an original drama despite hundreds of notebooks scattered with unfinished ideas, and he鈥檚 very keen to continue developing his own ideas and collaborate with other writers on exciting projects but also still wanting to progress in the soap world. Typically, his work includes elements of class, race and hierarchy, but he also finds the fun in writing about worlds unknown to him and using his writing research as a tool to connect with other worlds.

Tim Green

Tim began writing for radio and was shortlisted for a Writer鈥檚 Guild Award for his second radio play I WONDER WHO鈥橲 KISSING HER NOW. In 2023 he wrote HOUSEMATES for The Sherman Theatre, which received 5* reviews in The Observer and The Stage and was listed as one of The Stage鈥檚 Plays of the Year. The play was revived in 2025 at the Sherman and on tour and will be staged in Theatre Clwyd later in the year. HOUSEMATES is now in paid development with the 蜜芽传媒 as a drama series.

Tim is currently working with an exec producer at Anthology Theatre Group on a new stage play, based on a story that dominated the headlines earlier this year. His primary interest is in telling stories with wide appeal, based in reality.

Once a commissioning executive for the 蜜芽传媒, Tim also works as a documentary film maker and Executive Producer and is currently making a film for the 蜜芽传媒 and a series for ITV.

Tim Green is represented as a writer by Alan Brodie Representation.

Brynach Higginson

Brynach is a screenwriter from Pembrokeshire. He wrote his first feature screenplay THIRTEEN AND A HALF PLANES while at university, and went on to pursue a career in theatre, film, and television. He was an Assistant Script Editor on long-running Welsh language soap POBOL Y CWM, and his short screenplay MOUNTAIN VIEW was produced by It鈥檚 My Shout and broadcast on 蜜芽传媒 One Wales.

He honed his screenwriting skills on NFTS and S4C鈥檚 From the Script to the Cinema course, and more recently was selected for Sinema Cymru鈥檚 2024 residential screenwriters鈥� Lab with Le Groupe Quest (LIM). His writing often blends grounded supernatural and fantastical elements with themes relating to nature and connection.

Brynach has many projects in development which include his fantasy feature film I鈥橰 GWYLLT, produced by Catrin Cooper, with support from Ffilm Cymru Wales; his four-part supernatural thriller series, THE STONES developed through the 蜜芽传媒 Voices programme; and his fantasy short film, D糯R.

Brynach is very grateful to be a part of such an incredibly talented cohort of writers.

Charlotte James

Charlotte James is a writer and director from the Valleys of South Wales. Inspired by the community she grew up in, she uses dark comedy to shine a light on life in the Valleys鈥攃hallenging stereotypes and subverting conventional perspectives of the working class. Her work often blends surrealism and nostalgia, juxtaposing typical working-class backdrops with unexpected visual and emotional tones.

Charlotte is the co-founder of Bleak Fabulous, a creative collective, and her work has been exhibited at the Martin Parr Foundation and received critical acclaim internationally.

Her debut short film, Doss House, was produced by Maisie Williams under her production company RAPT, and was screened at the London Short Film Festival as part of their programme They Call Us Working Class.

Charlotte is currently developing her second short film and writing her first feature. She is also a member of SCYMRU, a collective of Welsh filmmakers.

A natural connector and storyteller, Charlotte brings warmth and wit wherever she goes, always drawing from the people and places that shaped her.

Stacey Lewis

Stacey has worked extensively in television drama production over the past twenty years. Some of her screen credits include BROADCHURCH (ITV1/Kudos), WAR OF THE WORLDS (Urban Myth Films/Canal+), BRAVE NEW WORLD (NBCU) and POLDARK (蜜芽传媒1/Mammoth Screen).

Stacey鈥檚 love of writing has been a recent revelation. Her script debut, HIDDEN SILENCES, is in development with Riot Time Pictures which explores ancestral trauma through the female generations of a Welsh family and is supported by Creative Wales.

Since being accepted onto 蜜芽传媒 Voices, Stacey has developed a TV pilot, BELIEVE, a mystical crime drama inspired by the true history of the Physicians of Myddfai and Love Stories, a short form rom com anthology series. She is passionate about telling female-led stories and when not creating and writing Stacey can be found in the Gower Sea or teaching yoga.

Griff Lynch Jones

Griff Lynch is an experienced filmmaker whose work spans short films, feature documentaries, and music videos. Over the past decade, he has directed projects for Channel 4, Film Cymru Wales, Amazon Prime, S4C, Nowness, RT脡, and the 蜜芽传媒.

He began his career as a producer, presenter, and features director on S4C鈥檚 music magazine show Ochr 1, where he created music videos, interviews, and documentaries profiling some of Wales鈥� most exciting musical talents. In 2015, he directed his first feature TV documentary, a portrait of legendary Welsh musician and poet Geraint Jarman - and followed it with a feature about Carwyn Ellis of The Pretenders, blending Welsh and Brazilian cultures in a collaboration with Grammy nominated producer Alexandre Kassin.

As a musician himself, Griff鈥檚 work often leans into music and experimentation. He directed Women Making Music, a surreal musical journey through the Eisteddfod鈥檚 storage unit during the pandemic, as well as other films exploring the absence of festivals in Welsh culture.

Shifting into drama, he directed the 蜜芽传媒 short PAID TROI NOL, and a series of poetry films for Channel 4, S4C, and Nowness, including ARWR and RHYDDID. In 2022, he helmed MAES B, a Welsh language hybrid of drama and live music, filmed at the National Eisteddfod and following four festival-goers through a coming-of-age story set to a live soundtrack. Griff has also directed on Channel 5 comedy thriller FINDERS KEEPERS and S4C鈥檚 HAFIACH, set for release in 2025.

Most recently, Griff鈥檚 first writer-director short, DIM OND TI A FI, was commissioned by Film Cymru Wales and the 蜜芽传媒. The film was nominated for Best British Short at Raindance 2024 and broadcast on 蜜芽传媒 Two.

In 2025, Griff was selected for 蜜芽传媒 Voices, a development scheme for emerging screenwriters, where he is currently working on his first original TV Drama pilot.

Sophie Mackintosh

Sophie Mackintosh grew up in Pembrokeshire, and is currently based in London. She is the author of three novels 鈥� The Water Cure, Blue Ticket, and Cursed Bread 鈥� and her fourth novel, Permanence, will be published in 2026.

Her fiction has been nominated for prizes including The Booker Prize and The Women's Prize for Fiction, and her work has been published in outlets including The New York Times, The Stinging Fly, and Dazed. In 2023 she was named a Granta Best of Young British Novelist. In all forms of writing Sophie is drawn to the uncanny and off-kilter, and discovered a love for screenwriting when working on scripts adapting her fiction for the screen.