BIO:

I’ve been a TV/film/theatre actor since my teens and didn't do my screenwriting MA til my 30’s. Before this I wrote some comedy sketches for TV, including the BAFTA winning Ch 4 UK sketch show SMACK THE PONY and SKY’s NO LIMIT.

My first short film, BREAKING OUT (dir. by Oscar winner Marienela Maldonaldo), premiered in competition in Cannes, was selected by 20 international festivals & won Best European short at Angers. This and my first feature script ONE WHITE CROW got me taken on by lit agent Casarotto’s.

I wrote for series 2 and 3 of ground breaking teen drama, SOFIA’S DIARY, for Sony UK, broadcast on Channel 5, but which originated as a plot-interactive web series on Bebo – 8 years before Bandersnatch.

Since then, my short THE OTHER SIDE was produced by the Rutger Hauer Film Factory; I was a participant of North by Northwest European Lab & Berlin Talent Campus & have had commissions from RHI/Hallmark to write a treatment for a 4 hour mini-series based on THE LITTLE MERMAID and Landscape/eOne in the US to create a 10 hour historical drama about the explorers STANLEY & LIVINGSTONE.

My feature script ONE WHITE CROW is under option for the 3rd time in 12 years so maybe 3rd time lucky!

I produced, wrote and acted in short dramedy about grief, KILLING CHRISTMAS, last year, based on a play I wrote for an LA theatre. After 18 months of festivals it has won awards for acting, script and Best Short. I’m currently filming a short version of #MENTAL – a dark comedy about a woman’s first episode of mental illness which was shortlisted by the BBC Comedy Writersroom, the Sister Films SCREENSHOT contest and Channel 4 BLAPS scheme.

I write female centric comedy and drama with female characters of ALL ages.

Often I write about forms of prejudice, be it around colour, creed, class, age (the under aged and the older aged) and challenge accepted ethical codes. More often I write about unusual conditions of the mind and mental illness and always I write about death, ageing and other comedic no brainers – loaded with painful existential angst. If I can, I love to treat such serious stuff with a dark comedic tone and play that bittersweet tragi-comic/dramedy knife edge.

A history buff, I also write historical drama and am particularly knowledgeable on the 19th century.

My UK/Africa-hopping childhood & a lot of life experience now, has led me to people, politics & conditions of many kinds: the privileged, impoverished, disenfranchised & criminal.

I grew up around and have experience of (personal and/or professional) addiction, mental illness, homelessness, physical disability and 3 brands of racism on 3 separate continents, including apartheid.

In the last 10 years I’ve also been in a racially ‘mixed’ marriage whilst living in the US – which has been interesting and frankly bloody scary.

I have a passion for satire, am a philosophy and history buff, an avid reader, water obsessive & classic motorcycle rider.

Pippa Hinchley - Writer (Actor/Content Creator/Director) CV

Dual UK/US citizen. WGGB. Equity. SAG. 2020 BAFTA CREW participant.



*One White Crow – a historical, psychological thriller feature was selected for the 2018 Meryl Streep/Nicole Kidman backed Writers Lab in NYC, is optioned by Bohemia Originals in LA and has Oscar winning editor Mark Sanger attached to direct. It’s been a finalist in 5 high end contests.

*Up Yours, Bridget Jones – comedy feature, finalist in the National Lampoon’s comedy feature search and several other comps.

PRODUCED CREDITS

KILLING CHRISTMAS – 12’ dramedy (writer, producer, actor)– selected for 15 international festivals inc Iowa, International Womens; London Int Shorts. WINNER Best Holiday Short (LISFF); WINNER Best Intl. Short, Tweetfest; WINNER Best Performances, WILDSound; BEST SCRIPT LA Artists Emerge WATCH: https://youtu.be/mNWF1QZCSWI

SOFIA’S DIARY – Sony UK and Channel 5. Writer 60 eps, series 2 and 3. Hit YA, plot interactive dramedy – went out as 5x7’ webisodes every week, then bundled half hours for C5/Fiver. Approx 5 hours broadcast TV.

BREAKING OUT – 12’ short film (psychodrama) dir. Marienela Maldonado (Oscar winner)

Official Selection Cannes, Edinburgh, London & 20 other international festivals. WINNER, BEST EUROPEAN SHORT, Angers. WATCH Breaking Out: https://vimeo.com/49494558

THE OTHER SIDE- short film script, selected from international entries and produced by the Rutger Hauer 2008 Film Factory, Rotterdam. WATCH The Other Side: https://youtu.be/60GTnNkGVE

RADA/Warner Bros – Pippa has been commissioned 7 times to write 25’ screenplays for young actors and a YA audience as part of the RADA W.Bros-backed film acting programme. Devising and tailor making the narratives for the specific group of actors, the scripts were developed over 5 days, written on the weekend and shot the following week on a seriously low budget! Several of these pieces she has since developed since as feature scripts.

SMACK THE PONY - sketch contributor to the multi award winning C4 female led sketch show.

NO LIMIT – sketch writer, SKY TV.

Live!Sex!Girls! - Director/producer/actor/writer WEB sketch show (producer/writer/performer) picked up by StaytunedTV, Babelgum and Random – www.livesexgirlscomedy.com www.youtube.com/pippahinchleycomedy

COMMISSIONS

STANLEY & LIVINGSTONE Commissioned by Landscape Ent/eOne (USA) to adapt/create a 10 hour historical drama series treatment from the biographies by Tim Jeal - ‘Stanley’ and ‘Livingstone’ -and to write the first 2 hours (script and treatment available).

THE LITTLE MERMAID – Commissioned to write long treatment for a 4 hour modern fantasy-drama mini-series based for Hallmark/RHI.

CURIOUS PICTURES, NYC – Commissioned for feature treatment based on Paolo Coehlo short story.

BBCi – commissioned to write a treatment/bible for YA- school dramedy similar to Sofia’ Diary.

RADIO 4 Comedy – HATTIE THE DISENCHANTED – pilot ordered.

Produced THEATRE, LIVE SKETCH AND STAND-UP

Killer Christmas – one act play – produced at Studio C Theatre, Hollywood

Live!Sex!Girls! – the sketch show, LA Comedy Festival – Acme Theatre - Director/producer/actor/writer

Stand Up - The Comedy Store/ Hollywood Improv, Pig and Whistle and other LA venues

Destination Elevation – solo comedy, Edinburgh festival/ Pleasance and The Soho Theatre, London.

The Alans Have Landed – writer/producer/ performer. Sell out sketch show. Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh

Newsrevue – sketches for London's longest running topical satire show, Canal Cafe Theatre.

*SCRIPT CONSULTANT - script editor/ development consultant/coverage and feedback notes for individual writers, production companies and top script contests. They include Storyscape/eOne, Allotria, Bullitt, Eclipse, Script Writers Network in the US and Pulse, Gothic Manor and many others in the UK.

*SCREENWRITING LECTURER on the BA module, specifically short film/web series, University of London. Created/wrote the course.

*LABS & PROGRAMMES: Berlin Talent Campus, European feature development lab, North By Northwest and The Rutger Hauer Film Factory. Also regularly on industry panels at film festivals, web festivals like IFC Web Fest in LA; guest speaks and teaches screenwriting at LCC, University of London, Bitkbeck and also teaches the acting and filmmaking degrees at Raindance. Writes tailor-made short films using improv for RADA and E15 drama students.

*20+ years of acting credits in TV, film, voice over, radio, theatre, live comedy.

BA (Hons 1st class) Philosophy. MA, Screenwriting (LCC). Raindance Producer Course.

1. Screenwriter

   pippa hinchley · Mar 2007 - Present

2. TV sketch writer C4 and Sky TV

   Pippa Hinchley · Jan 1999 - Present

3. Actor - tv, film, theatre, radio, voice

   pippa hinchley · Mar 1984 - Present

1. DV Talent: Crossroads - Navigating next steps in a creative career mentoring programme 2021

   ScreenSkills · Mar 2022

   ScreenSkills Funded

2. MA Screenwriting

   LCC · Jan 2001 - Jan 2003

3. BA (Hons, 1st) Philosophy

   OU · Jan 1986 - Jan 1992