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 loves writing bold, playful thrillers with messy female leads.

She graduated from the University of East Anglia’s Creative Writing MA with distinction in 2019 and has since been developing various stage and screen projects while working as a Parliamentary Reporter, including an original political thriller series that was optioned for development.

Nat was nominated for the All3Media New Drama Script Award at the Edinburgh TV Festival’s New Voice Awards and previously shortlisted for Channel 4’s 4Stories. She’s had short plays performed at the King’s Head Theatre and the Pleasance Theatre, among others, and had an original audio drama commissioned for and performed by final year RADA students.

Recently, Nat was announced as one of the ten writers in the 2026 BBC Writers Voices London cohort. As part of the scheme, Nat has developed a returning series.

Nat was also invited to The Almost Show, a scratch night created by Britbox with support from the Edinburgh TV Festival.

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.