Terry Newman: author, scriptwriter and script doctor
Terry Newman: author, scriptwriter and script doctor
drtel @btinternet.com
Trapped Magic
In post production - coming soon
NEW!
Bimi Boo! Now on Amazon Prime
Trapped Magic
In post production - coming soon
NEW!
Bimi Boo! Now on Amazon Prime
Animation writer and songwriter
Terry Newman - current, commissioned and produced writing highlights
Please request a resume here for the full updated skinny on my output!
Girl and her Monster - teen comedy drama
Girl and her Monster - teen comedy drama
Glory and Greatness TV Series Pilot
– co-writer. Historical Drama 2018-2019 T. S. Chaudhry
Project Black Bird –
Excitement, Mystery and Magic in Malta
TV Pilot film. Waterslate Film Company, Malta. 2016-17
Lead writer/co-creator
MBFSR for RADEAS Productions. TV Proposal with Pier Productions for C4 2014-2015
Project M Ghost-writing Four episodes of English Language Arabic Historical Epic. 2015
Sit com – commissioned writer, HRH Productions with Grand Scheme Media 2014
Twinkle Twinkle Star - DCreative for STAR Network- Creator and writer. Broadcast 2011
Comedy Sketch show
Fun for all the family with a host of new comedy characters. Co-Creator and writer
BANG sit com – commissioned, co-writer with David Finley 2012
Second Opinion commisioned writer R Scott South Africa 2012
Reptile Days Comedy Drama Series Script Editor Screenplay Productions 2008
120 Days of Saddam – Co-creator, script writer. Series proposal and pilot episode. Screenplay Productions. 2008
'Bremner, Bird and Fortune’. Sketch/gag writer. Channel 4. Producer Mark Robson. BAFTA award nominated series.
Invasion of the Laundry Monsters pilot children's animation script for Carnival Figures.
Holy Shit pilot animation script for Paul Anderson
The Way It Is 2000 BBC 1. Producers Anil Gupta, Alex Walsh-Taylor. Writer.
Rory Bremner, Who Else? 1997-1998. Gag writer. Channel 4.
The Mark Brailsford Show. 1997. Topical Sketch writer. L!VE TV
Lead Balloon.1999. Sketch writer. Paramount Comedy Channel
Ex Machina. 1999 Pilot comedy animation script. Writer and Script Editor. Digital Horde
FILM & DOCUMENTARY
Princess Samounta's Choice
Feature Film set in Laos. Rolling Reel Films Adri Berger director 2019-2020
Triangle in the Sky
Comedy Feature film set in UK. NFD Productions Richard Connew director 2019-2020
BIMI BOO!
Animation writer and song writer
THE UNLOVED
Feature film adaptation of the acclaimed novel for Czech films 2018-19
The Persistence of the Past – short film – co-writer. Joseph Cassidy 2019 Winner New Renaissance Film Festival 2021 Humanity Award
Mo in the Dreamtime – co-writer. Animation. Director: Miray Karaduman 2019
Planet Spark– Indian animated children’s education videos - writer. 2018
Project 83 feature film book adaptation Producer Jonathan Weissler Balagan Productions 2018-2019
NMEN – script consultant George P - 2018
Crooked Billet II co-writer, feature film – Director Richard Connew NFD Productions Ltd 2018
The PF – pilot for animated series for children 2018
The Palace of Ephemera – Feature film adaptation Grant Sutton 2018
WAX MEN. co-writer feature film script – M Powell 2017
Behind the Clocktower – commissioned treatment DM UK 2017
All Made Up – THE CRACK – Element Animation YouTube Channel script writer 2017
MATTHEWS - ANIMATED VIDEO
Promotional video written for Seven Media brought to life by Umaxit
MATTHEWS - Feature Documentary 2016-17
Definitive documentary on football genius Sir Stanley Matthews
Staff Writer and pundit
The Two Princesses
Animated children's series for Czech production clients - writer.
Project WM - feature film co-writer 2017
THE MANGO GIRL
Adaptation to film of the book by Ava Brown 2015. Optioned 2016
CHASING ROBERT BARKER
CHASING ROBERT BARKER 2014
Paranoia in London Town
Script Consultant. Additional Writing.
BEST ACTION FEATURE - UK NATIONAL FILM AWARDS 2016
Rendezvous documentary series 2016
Cornea Productions Turkey
Writer
Espresso Lungo
Espresso Lungo - Short film commission
Anas B - Saudi Arabia. Writer/creator
The SHOCHET AND THE STORYTELLER
Animated feature film . El K Australia 2015.
Scriptwriter
Balls!
BALLS! Feature film Commission 2013-14, Director David Palmer. Writer
BDH Feature Film Script Consultant/CO-WRITER, David Gibb, Canada, 2013
The Second Wife Feature Film. Commissioned Writer Director Leon James, Austalia
SAILORSVILLE
Commissioned film adaptation of the book by Douglas Lipp, USA
The Deepam Feature Film. Commissioned Writer, dcreative 2012
The Tree of Pan 2012
The Tree of Pan
Magical Realism in Madeira
Cinnamon Girl Productions
Script Consultant
The Pictures of Bruno Schulz with Screen South
The Pictures of Bruno Schulz
Feature film based on the life and tragic death of writer and artist Bruno Schulz during World War II.
What Do you Do the Night After You’ve Saved the Universe?
What Do you Do the Night After You’ve Saved the Universe?
Film adaptation of my produced play. What superheroes do on their day off.
OUT OF IRAQ (co-writer) Tigris Productions.
PIE - animation feature.
Pie: Script Consultant
MENTALO
co-writen with director Marinella de Setti.
THE GREY PANTHER (co-writer) with Paul Evans. Producer Melanie Dicks. Optioned by Handsome films.
Wheelworld animated feature. Homemade Arts and Entertainment. Optioned by producer Ryan Harrison.
Wheelworld
An animation feature based on my recently completed novel of a world where everything (almost) has evolved wheels - nature red in tooth and tread!
Countdown with producer Hannah Quinn Gosh Productions
VEIL
VEIL - The Dead are hungry and they are heading for the Diner. Cowriter with Andy Dodds, director. 2014
DEJA MOO!
Deja Moo - script and comedy consultant. 2013
Winner Best Teen Film. Stuttgart Animation Festival 2013 Director Stefan Mueller
Mediaola
Short animated cartoon scripts for their in-house characters
Remi Padadac Films(co-writer with David Padadac)
Remi 2012
A lyrical tale about an illegal immigrant in a foreign city, struggling with separation and loss, and finding fortitude and liberation from the most unexpected and unlikely of sources.
'Reliable and Tidy Hoverfly looking for a place to Live'.
Animated short for The Woodland trust. Writer 2006
Saddam's Xmas Grotto Animated short film 2004 writer
Xmas Fun with Saddam and the gang!!
Last Letter from London (co-writer with David Barret) Carpenter's Mess Media. In production.
Last Letter from London
Before the painting, before the problems, Van Gogh wakes up to the strangest of days.
Off-Side(co-writer with Makalla Robotham) In development. Unknown Poets
The Green Wave' in development.
The Green Wave
The Taxi driver's urban legend changes the lives of two passengers.
School Trip - co-writer with director Markus Meedt 2012
STAGE
ELIC – musical. Book Writer – UK 2019-2021
Deep in the Forest – Book Writer – play with music. Rachel Hyman USA 2020
Six Flags over Jesus – comedy play script consultant 2017-2021
#itwasntme
Stage play - dark comedy 2018
Five Minutes of Fame - Canal Cafe Theatre 2015
Five Minutes of Fame - Canal Cafe Theatre 2015
Mile High
Mile High
Comedy musical . Co-writer words and songs.
The Lost Theatre London 2013
Lucifer - My Part in the New Labour Project
Lucifer - Brighton, London and Edinburgh 2011
At last, the version of the story that we have all been waiting to hear; the real insider's account of the political events that have shaped a generation. New Labour - what exactly was the Devil's role?
Adam and Eve and Eric The Nomad Players (from an Arts Council grant). Nomad Theatre, East Horsely 2008
What Do You Do The Night After You’ve Saved the Universe? Canal Café Theatre May 2005.
Being Dennis Potter – Canal Café Theatre 2005.
The Life and Times of a Wonder Woman. New York 2004. The Puffin Room, Skullduggery Productions. Edinburgh, 2003. C- Venue. Jackson Lane Theatre, London 2004. Hazlitt Theatre Maidstone, Kent 2004 CRITICS' CHOICE – The Herald
The Life and Times of a Wonder Woman
This multi-layered, one-hour, one-woman show is an ingenious conceit, a way of talking about feminism, sexuality and society's view of women, told through the history of a cultural icon … part history lesson, part feminist tract, all funny... New York Times
Dulcas’s Women – Jackson Lane Theatre March 2004, Jackson Lane Theatre March 2004 Pleasance Theatre Edinburgh 2003 . Nominated STAGE BEST ACTRESS. Fringe Report DRAMA WRITER OF THE YEAR 2004
DULCAS'S WOMEN is 14 sketches …. written with wit and guile by Terry Newman, Dulcas's Women is an alluring showcase of his dramatic work, varying from the hilarious, to the profound - and each acutely observed. Fringe Report Drama Writer of the year 2004
Burke and Hare -HAIRLINE HIGHLIGHT AWARD WINNER
Burke and Hare
A very black comedy based on the Edinburgh grave robbers who gave up robbing graves for murdering people.
C venue Edinburgh 2003
Brockley Jack Theatre, London, March 2004. Now available to download from The Wireless Theatre Company and Amazon Audible
Comedy on 5, 2000. Topical sketch writer. Harvey Nichols, London.
West Ending, 2000. CAA (Club for Acts and Actors) London.
Newsrevue, 1996-2013. Canal Cafe Theatre London. C Venue and The Underbelly, Edinburgh. Script editor/writer.
The Green Room Election Special, 1997 Green Room, London.
RADIO/AUDIO
Adam and Eve ... and Eric
Sparkling audio adaptation of the top comedy from The Wireless Theatre Company
Modern Times Monologues – RADEAS Productions for The Janice Forsyth Show BBC Scotland 2014
Radeas Productions and BBC Scotland
Hooray for Holyrood!!
Political sit com - writer and co-creator. Broadcast pilot commissioned by BBC Scotland 2012.
Plus non-broadcast pilot
The Bearded Ladies 2004 Radio 2. Writer. Producer Carol Smith.
The News Huddlines 1997-2002 Radio 2. Commissioned writer. Producers Steve Doherty/Carol Smith.
The Russ Abbot Show Celador Productions, Producer Dirk Maggs. Celador Productions.
The Way It Is . Series 1-7.1998-2002 Radio 4. Commissioned writer. Producers Anil Gupta, Ash Atalla and Alex Walsh Taylor.
So What If I Am? Radio 4. Writer. Producer Maria Esposito.
The Tango Tea ladies’ 1999. Award-winning Commercial Radio Advertising Campaign. Sketch writer. With Mark Wooton.
Dead Ringers 1999. Sketch writer. Radio 4. Producer Bill Dare.
What on Earth 1998 Radio 2. Commissioned writer. Producer Maria Esposito.
The Games Up 1998 Radio 5. Commissioned writer.
Week Ending 1997-1998 Radio 4. Commissioned writer.
COMMERCIAL
Coping with Fear - Charity Video writer
Daily Drive– Radio commercial
Scriptwriter for Phone App Company
BEKO Master Housework Campaign
scriptwriter
An Audio Tour of the Docklands Light Railway
Audio Guides written for Oculus Design & Communications Limited, Reading for the Docklands Light Railway
MEMRISE
Learning powered by Imagination
Script writer
Crunch Time Media
Script Consultant
Appear to me, York.
Ultra reality applications. Appeartome, for York Tourist board. Scriptwriter
Labface.com
Article writer
Process Engineering
Article Writing
Bloghazard
Science insight site! And a variety of science blogs.
DTV UK LtdLondon.
Buzz my Goat – internet/mobile phone company. Head Script writer
Personalised Hollyoaks videos for Buzz my Goat
Media Training and Corporate video company
Script Consultant
Adviweb
Internet Audio Recordings
voice recordings for mobile phones. Script writer.
DCreative
Head Script Writer
118 118
Comedy writer for Audio campaign
NOVELS eBOOKS and MANUSCRIPTS
The King of Elfland's Little Sister
The next adventure of the #1 Kindle Bestselling Epic Fantasy Detective Strongoak
Tarquin and his Troop
Delightful verses for little readers and their parents
The Resurrection Show
co-writer as Dalter T Newman
Sf satire - "Thoroughly enjoyable, funny and thought provoking read"
’50 Finest’ Script Doctor – GoChannel. Tim Exell 2016
Harper Voyager 2015. #1 Kindle Bestseller Epic Fantasy
Windy Press Children's ebook - co-editor
Blue Hamster Project Ghost-writing and adding comedy to Autobiography
E. Phant Project - Ghost-writing and adding comedy to children’s novel.
SEE ALSO:
A Widow's Weeds - Short graphic story
One woman's look at her life on
what should be the saddest of days