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Kate Bingham & Grace Banks
Kate Bingham
Kate Bingham published her first novel, Mummy’s Legs, and a poetry collection, Cohabitation, in 1998. The novel led to Simon Curtis and a 90-minute single drama commission for the BBC: House Rules. The poems led to the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival Outreach Tour where she performed twice a day in Suffolk’s best prisons and libraries. A second novel, a second book of poetry, and a second commission, Holland Park for Contagious Films, soon followed. In 2004 she got together with her old school friend Grace Banks to work on a new idea. Eventually this turned into the spec script Anti-Social Behaviour; their creative partnership was born.
Grace BanksGrace Banks spent a good ten years writing, producing and directing television shows: Pop World, Pet Rescue, Fashion House and Model Behaviour, documentaries for young people, and some for old people too. Then she conspired with Kate Bingham on their first screenplay - a tale about a pirate radio station run out of a North London estate. Anthony Minghella and his team at Mirage liked it and began developing it alongside another idea, Saint Joan. They have since written several screenplays and shorts together and intend to write more when their kids give them a minute.
During She Writes, Kate & Grace will be working on Saint Joan.
"Joan says you're never too old to save the world. And no one says no to Joan.”