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Rosy Barnes
Rosy Barnes
Rosy Barnes is a comic novelist and scriptwriter. She is passionate about comedy.
Rosy has a BA in Fine Art and English Literature from Exeter University, where she won the Exeter Literary Society Prize for her play Sandwiches, and an MA in Theatre Directing from the University of East Anglia. She has worked as a visual arts curator and been part of a small theatre company. Her comedy play, BIMBO, involving both actors and full-length puppets, toured Scotland and Ireland with great success, whilst her radio play, The Dog House was broadcast by RTE and shortlisted for the PJ O'Connor award. As a freelance arts journalist/reviewer she has written for The Irish Times, Irish Theatre Magazine, The Dubliner and The List. She has worked as assistant director at Rough Magic Theatre Company and The Traverse Theatre and as a scriptreader for The Abbey Theatre in Dublin and the BBC’s Last Laugh. She is a founding member of the popular book blog – the eclectic and eccentric Vulpes Libris (vulpeslibris.wordpress.com).
During She Writes, Rosy worked on her screenplay adaptation of Sadomasochism for Accountants.
Sadomasochism for Accountants
by Rosy Barnes
Excel spreadsheets and sequin leotards fly when unassuming Paula recruits the exotic clientele of a South London fetish club to win back her accountant ex. Unassuming Paula may not be setting the world on fire, but she’s happy enough with her quiet life and her boyfriend of eight years, accountant Alan. That is, until the day she comes home to find the upwardly-mobile Belinda moving in. Told (by Belinda) that she’s been dumped for being too boring, Paula decides to ditch her dull image. Putting her best thigh-length leather-booted foot forward, she sets off to her local fetish club ('wrinklies welcome'). There, she meets a host of exotic characters including a transvestite brickie with an anger management problem, a gentle dominatrix who hates bossing people around, and a naked man called Fred. Together, they hatch an audacious plan. Can they teach Paula how to be more exciting to win back her erring ex? Or will Paula realise there are worse things than being boring, when the ruthless Belinda embarks on a sinister plan of her own…?
During She Writes Rosy has been mentored by Deborah Moggach.
Rosy can be contacted at:
duckmocker@gmail.com
rosy@rosybarnes.com
t: 07706 847079
www.rosybarnes.com