Marissa Ogbeide

Marissa is a London based screenwriter.

A graduate of the MA Screenwriting programme at the London Film School, Marissa is working on a number of projects for film and TV, including a book adaptation, a feature romantic comedy and a sci-fi TV drama. Her writing has been writing has been longlisted for the BBC Writer’s Room Drama Room and shortlisted for the ITV Original Voices scheme.

Marissa is passionate about developing ideas set in heightened worlds that thoughtfully and imaginatively examine the human condition whilst reflecting the society we live in today.  She also works as a Development Executive for film and TV.

Nat Froome

Nat Froome is a London-based screenwriter who is passionate about television and writes character-driven dramas that explore contemporary issues with heart and humour. She graduated from the University of East Anglia’s Creative Writing MA with distinction in 2019 and has since been working on various stage and screen projects while also working as a parliamentary reporter, including developing an original political TV drama series.

Nat’s TV drama pilot “Occupational Hazard” was nominated for the All3Media New Drama Script Award at the Edinburgh TV Festival’s New Voice Awards. She has also been longlisted for Sid Gentle’s ‘Thousand Films’ competition and shortlisted for Channel 4’s 4Stories.

Her stage work has been performed at the King’s Head theatre, the Pleasance theatre, the Tristan Bates theatre and Norwich Arts Centre, with her most recent short play, “You Know You Can’t Hold Me Forever” being selected for performance at the 2023 Deptford Literature Festival. Nat’s audio drama “The Estate” was written for and performed by final year acting students at RADA  and directed by Jeremy Mortimer.

Rachel Tookey

Rachel is a writer for stage and screen, creating women-led stories in heightened, often absurdist worlds that blend humour with emotional truth.

Her latest play, SLIME, was longlisted for the Women’s Prize in Playwriting 2025 out of 1300 applicants, finalist for the Lila Acheson Wallace Playwrights Fellowship at Juilliard, shortlisted for the Original Theatre playwriting prize, Top 12% Soho Theatre Verity Bargate Award, awarded a Peggy Ramsay Grant, and received a rehearsed reading at the West End’s Criterion Theatre.

Her debut play, BROMLEY BEDLAM BETHLEHEM, opened at the Old Red Lion in 2019, and was awarded the Methuen Drama / Marlowe Society ‘Other Prize’. The Stage called it “a sensitive and sharp portrayal” and it was listed on Lyn Gardner’s Top Picks.

Her first TV pilot, PEGGED, was shortlisted for the Funny Women Comedy Writing Prize 2025, out of 500 applicants.

Her short film, THE GIRL WITH THE HAUNTED VAGINA, was commissioned by the British Film Institute Network and stars Sophie Duker. Her short play, MUDDER, was selected for the Samuel French 49th Off-Off-Broadway Short Play Festival in New York.

She has been selected to take part in writers groups with The Royal Court, Criterion Theatre, Oxford Playhouse, Soho Theatre, RADA and HighTide.

Jonathan Cliffe

Jonathan was born in Carlisle and graduated from the Royal Scottish Conservatoire where he studied Acting.

He has lived and worked in Russia, Vietnam and Malta. While in Moscow he made his first short film BIRTHDAY which was screened at international festivals.

After returning to the UK he was a finalist in the RED PLANET PRIZE with his pilot for sci-fi thriller series EUSTON.

He is currently developing a reboot of a classic 1980s TV series as well as TV crime thriller RAVE based on cult book ‘Class of 88’ and the football feature RED REBEL, which dives into Michael Knighton’s explosive and short-lived reign as Manchester United supremo.