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Rob Ritchie
Rob Ritchie
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], and Blown Part [Assassin Films]. His publications include The Joint Stock Book [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 New Zealand Film Commission and the Moonstone Screenwriters Lab, in addition to his work with The Script Factory. A former Head of Screenwriting at the National Film and Television School, he co-devised the Anglo-French screenwriting workshop Regards Croises that has developed a number of first feature screenplays including WAZ [Vertigo Films] and Water Lilies [Balthazar Productions].
He has also acted as Story Consultant for Little Bird Film and Television and is currently a Script Adviser on a number of independent feature films.
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