KAREN BROWN
WRITER

'I grew up in a 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 :

WIVES
Feature/TV 90mins - Suspense Thriller in development with Director Chris Bernard

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


TELEVISION :

MOVING ON
Letting Go (TX 2010)
Executive Producer: Jimmy McGovern
LA productions / BBC

MOVING ON
Opening Episode: The Rain Has Stopped (TX May 18 2009)
Executive Producer: Jimmy McGovern
LA productions / BBC
Nominated for an RTS Award Best Performance in a Single Drama or Drama Series: Sheila Hancock

SOAPOWDER AND SOCKS
Comedy/drama - 10 X 60 mins - Series Outline and Treatment

BOUGHT AND SOLD
Comedy drama series - first episode and storylines

SISTERS
Situation Comedy

BETS
Situation Comedy

CROSSROADS
Carlton Drama
12 episodes

BROOKSIDE
Lime Pictures

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


RADIO :

SHERBET DOLLS
Radio Series for 2010
Producer: Sue Roberts

I'M THE BOSS
Friday play
Commissioned by Radio 4

THE KING OF EDGE HILL
John McCardle playing lead (TX 21st Mar 2000)
Producer Polly Thomas
Commissioned by Radio 4
Winner of Echo Arts Award 2000 for the best piece of original writing in the Region

FOOTPOWDER
30 min drama TX June 1998
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)


THEATRE :

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

IN SEARCH OF THE BIG BAMBOO
Commissioned by Liverpool Everyman Playhouse

SKINHEAD MOONSTOMP
Readings at Bolton Octagon
Manchester Central

MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE
Commissioned Liverpool Everyman Playhouse 2008

THE KING OF EDGE HILL
First staged 2002 Liverpool Unity Theatre; also stages 2004 and 2006
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

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


Community work :

WEA
Substance Abusers wrote and directed a comic script about hepatitis C
Women's Aid working with victims of abuse

GENIE IN THE GUTTER
Drug and alcohol support


Lecturing :

Liverpool University - Writing for Stage
Hope University - BA Writing /Film Studies
John Moores University - BA/MA Imaginative Writing


Dench Arnold Agency