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Lucy Scher
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Script Factory Director Lucy Scher
After early career starts in publishing and then accountancy, Lucy found fame in the entertainment industry when she co-created the gay club brand ‘Flesh’ at Manchester’s Hacienda and contributed to the early 90s Manchester revival.
Returning to London in 1996, Lucy joined the newly conceived Script Factory and produced the first season of Screenplay Readings in London. As The Script Factory grew, Lucy headed up development and training programmes, working with new and established writers in the UK and overseas.
Lucy has worked with numerous writers on short, feature and documentary projects including Paul Fraser, Lana Citron, Sean Hughes, Ash Ditta, Justin Kerrigan, Nick Broomfield, Gavin Hood and Richard Jobson, Michael Walker. She has also devised and delivered courses for numerous production companies, and Screen Agencies throughout the UK and internationally (with a CV which has taken her to Australia, Sweden, Germany, Spain, Slovenia, Israel, Palestine, Brazil, India and beyond).
Having devised the UK's first ever course for Script Readers in 1999, Lucy now heads The Script Factory's Diploma in Script Development, the first study programme of its kind staged in partnership with the National Film and Television School.
Lucy has contributed articles to several publications and books including the The Screenwriter's Handbook (Pan MacMillan), and Filmmakers' Yearbook (A&C Black), and has been commissioned to write a book on script reading and report writing by Kamara Books, due out in November 2011.
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