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Tracy Brabin
Tracy Brabin
Tracy is an actress and writer. She has been a team writer on Crossroads (1 year), Family Affairs (2 years), Tracey Beaker (3 series and Children in Need special), Hollyoaks (2 years) and three series of Seacht (Best Youth Drama, Irish Film and Television Awards 2011) as well as episodes of Heartbeat and ShamelessM.
Tracy has two feature films in development with Sally Hibbin at Parallax Independent: Cross Your Heart (a romantic comedy set in a North London bra shop) and Yarko (a teen rites of passage drama set in Great Yarmouth). She has written and directed her first short film Leaving Home for Virgin Media Shorts.
She was part of The Script Factory Writers’ Group on its inception in 2001. She and writing partner Jane Marlow are currently writing their first original series Scup (a conspiracy thriller set in a newspaper in Northern Ireland) commissioned by Stirling TV and BBC Northern Ireland.
During She Writes, Tracy worked on Father August, a romantic comedy set in London.
Father August
by Tracy Brabin
'He's a priest and she’s a good girl… or so they say!'
A romantic comedy inspired by the Vatican’s yearly calendar of hot looking trainee priests, the Calendario Romano.
When smug womanizer Rocco Percorelli witnesses a murder outside his family’s deli and the police safe house is anything but, his mother - the indomitable Sicilian Angelina - decides he’s safer in God’s hands, packing him off to the seminary in Chelsea run by family friend Father Alexander. Here Rocco’s safety is compromised when he’s accidentally included in the annual Vatican calendar of young priests the Calendario Romano as Father August. His dangerous high profile is compounded when he starts a platonic but intense relationship with vulnerable Irish wannabe actress Kelly O'Hara working as a pole dancer at the killer’s club.
As the murderer's net closes in, Kelly’s life gets harder and she ends up at the homeless shelter run by the priests. There - ostensibly rehearsing a scene for Kelly’s forthcoming audition - Rocco and Kelly kiss. Stricken to have compromised her friend’s faith, the tables are turned when Kelly realises – after confessing her most painful secrets and anxieties – that he’s a liar. He’s not a priest after all. Betrayed Kelly can’t forgive and their relationship explodes but now on the run, they will have to reconcile their differences if they’re going to stay alive.
During She Writes Tracy has been mentored by Liz Karlsen.
Tracy is represented by Bethan Evans at The Agency.
t: 020 7727 1346
tracybrabin@sky.com