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Kate Bingham & Grace Banks
Kate Bingham & Grace Banks
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 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, that Kate and Grace took along to them. 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 worked on the feature screenplay Saint Joan.
Saint Joan
by Kate Bingham & Grace Banks
"Joan says you're never too old to save the world. And no one says no to Joan.
Joan Baring is sick and tired of disasters on the news. Hurricanes and earthquakes, famines, epidemics – the world is full of needless suffering and she, for one, is not prepared to put up with it for a moment longer. She may be just a divorced 64 year-old former librarian from Maidenhead, but why should that stop her doing her doing her bit for humanity? Anyone can take a coach-load of hospital supplies to the Turkey-Iraq border. And if a group of like-minded do-gooding silver-surfers wants to come along for the ride, why not? They're 'Operation Baring Gifts' and they have no idea what they're
getting into.
During She Writes Kate & Grace have been mentored by Nigel Cole.
Kate Bingham & Grace Banks are represented by:
Sophie Dolan, Casarotto Ramsay & Associates Limited
t: 020 7287 4450
f: 020 7287 9128
www.casarotto.co.uk