Helen Farrall

Helen writes for both children and adults and her credits include Bad Girls, Doctors, Grange Hill, Byker Grove, Dream Team and she was the creator and co-writer of C4's interactive teen drama, Smokescreen. She has also storylined for Children's Ward, Crossroads and Emmerdale.

Credits:

2011 Triangle
Participated in Screen Yorkshire’s 8 month feature development and pitching scheme, making it to the team shortlist stage.

2010-11 Drafted - North West Vision and Media One
One of 10 writers chosen to develop a feature film script under tutelage of Kate Leys.

2010 Doctors - BBC
1 x script commission

Cover Girl - Tuna Technologies/C4
Writer for online game

2009 Smokescreen - Six to Start/C4
Creator and writer for online education game - Winner of SXSW 2010 Web Game Award and the 2010 Learning on Screen Multimedia Award

2007 - Date Doctors - BBC
5 x 30 min scripts commissioned

2007 - Wizbit - Hand E Group
Commissed to write series document for new children's series

BBC Jam - Shoreditch Consortium
Script writing and editing of 12 "webisodes"

2006 Little Punjabi Princess - Little Bird/Five
Script commissioned

2002 - 2006 Byker Grove Series 14, 15, 16 17 and 18 - Zenith/BBC
12 x 30 minute scripts in total

2005 Jess the Border Collie - IWC/BBC
2 x 15 minute scripts commissioned

2003 Bad Girls Series 6 Shed/ITV
1 x 60 minute script

Jeopardy - Wark Clements/BBC
2 x 30 minute scripts

Rich Bitches- Wark Clements
Commissioned to write treatment and storylines for teen series pilot

2002-2003 Crossroads and Crossroads II - Carlton/ITV
18 x 30 minute episodes (including one block of 5 and two blocks of 2). Also storylined 10 episodes

Dream Team. She has also storylined for Children's Ward, Crossroads and Emmerdale and has scripted and developed online dramas.

2001 Grange Hill Series 25 - BBC TV
2 x 30 minute episodes

1999 Children's Ward - Granada/ITV
1 episode and series storyliner

1998 -99 Dream Team Series II and III - Hewland International/Sky TV
15 episodes in total

1998 Emmerdale - Yorkshire TV
storyliner for Mervyn Watson

1997 Cybersoaps storylining workshop - Granada Television
Coronation Street storylining workshop - Granada Television

1996 The Hangman's Daughter
Recipient of Carl Foreman Special Award for original screenplay

1995 Writer in Residence/Co-producer Young At Heart Reminiscence Theatre Company: Celebrations and Salvations toured in December 1994; When the Lights Go On Again (TIE) performed at the Pumphouse People's History Museum in March and April 1995; and The Crabtrees Celebrate commissioned by Manchester City Council and performed on VE Day 1995.

Writer/Co-producer - Girls Up North Theatre: I Should Have Been Liz
one-woman show played for two weeks at the 1995 Manchester Festival.

Related Work Experience

1992-2002 Various script tutoring.