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Rob Ritchie
Rob Ritchie enjoying teaching for The Script Factory in India
Rob started his career as Literary Manager, then Associate Director, of the Royal Court Theatre, responsible for commissioning new plays and finding and developing new playwrights. After leaving the Court, he worked as Script Associate at Channel 4 Television working on the development of feature scripts for Film on Four, short films for Short and Curlies and commissioning one-hour dramas for FourPlay.
As a writer, his screenplays include Leave to Remain [Film Four], McIvor's Share [Euston Films], the award winning drama-documentary Who Bombed Birmingham? [Granada/HBO], The Merrihill Millionaires [BBC TV], Blown Part [Assassin Films], Danny Jones [BBC TV]. His publications include The Joint Stock Books [Methuen] and The Night Sun [Methuen]. He has devised and participated in a number of writing workshops for the Arvon Foundation, BBC Television, the Welsh Academy, RADA, the Moonstone Screenwriters Lab, Cineworks, in addition to his work with The Script Factory. He has taught on MA writing courses at Birmingham University, Sussex University, the University of East Anglia, Leeds University, the Victoria College of Art [Melbourne], The School of Screenwriting [Tel Aviv]. Until recently he was Head of Screenwriting at the National Film and Television School.
He is currently Story Consultant for Little Bird Film and Television and Script Adviser on a number of independent feature films.
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