KAREN BROWN
WRITER

'I grew up in mining town, which was also a mill town in the middle of the Potteries. I worked in all three industries and watched them be destroyed - annoyed I started to write'

FILM :


THE DEVIL'S IN THE DETAILS
Action Thriller in development with Director Chris Bernard


TELEVISION :

EDGE LANE
Series/ Soap
Team headed by Jimmy McGovern
Commissioned by LA productions / BBC to write the opening episode Feb 2008

SISTERS
Situation Comedy

BETS
Situation Comedy

EDGE LANE
Part of a team headed by Jimmy McGovern creating a new breed of long running series

BOUGHT AND SOLD
Comedy drama series - first episode and storylines

CROSSROADS
Carlton Drama
12 episodes

BROOKSIDE
Lime Pictures

SOAPOWDER AND SOCKS
Comedy/drama - 6 X 60 mins - Series Outline and Treatment

DIVAS
Drama Series - Series Outline and Treatment
Episode One - ‘This is tomorrow calling'
Starring Sam Janus, directed by Richard Standeven
Commissioned by LA Productions

WIVES
Drama series
2 x 90mins Series Outline and Treatment & 4 x 60 mins Series Outline

SELBY & GEE
TV Series - Police Drama - Outline and Character Profiles
Winner of Echo Arts Award 2000 for the best piece of original writing in the Region


THEATRE :

SKINHEAD MOONSTOMP
Readings at Bolton Octagon
Manchester Central

IN SEARCH OF THE BIG BAMBOO
Commissioned by Liverpool Everyman Playhouse
Feature Outline

THE KING OF EDGE HILL
Staged 2002 Liverpool Unity Theatre.
Producer Paul Goetzee

Voted best new play of 2002 by Daily Post & Echo
A play to see, working class history that we should care about. (The Big Issue)
A writer to take note of. (The Independent)

Staged as a Community Play by First Break Productions July 2007

CASH IN HAND
Commissioned by Liverpool's Festival of Comedy for Liverpool Playhouse Studio

5 MPH
Commissioned by Liverpool's Festival of Comedy for Neptune Theatre

A week long residency on political theatre at the Royal National Theatre

Directed the winners of the Barnardos One Act Play Competition
* I'm going to do it Anyway - writer Colin McKeown
* Lipstick and Belsen - writer Peter Grant


RADIO

THE KING OF EDGE HILL
John McCardle playing lead
Producer Polly Thomas
Commissioned by Radio 4

FOOTPOWDER
Commissioned by Radio 4
Producer Melanie Harris
'Brown shows a splendid grasp of radio, a powerful comedy' (Guardian)
'A potent mix of the tragic and prosaic with deft comic touches' (The Stage)

Script Doctor employed by Tower Films to work on a Dolph Lundgren film.



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