Writer
Becky Prestwich is a regular writer on CASUALTY – as well as having written 9x episodes for HOLBY CITY. She has written five Afternoon Dramas for BBC Radio 4 – including JUST THE THREE OF US – nominated for a Tinniswood Award for best audio drama. She has written for BBC3 and has an original pilot in development with Rollem Productions. As a playwright, she specialises in work with community casts and in non-traditional theatre spaces, including CHIP SHOP CHIPS (Box of Tricks Theatre), UNDER THE MARKET ROOF (Junction 8 Theatre) and ONE NIGHT IN BOLTON (Octagon Theatre). Becky is currently an Associate Playwright at Box of Tricks Theatre.
Currently one of three new Associate Playwrights at Box of Tricks Theatre.
Lead Writer on new cosy crime series for Rollem
Wrote Series 38’s Episode 8
Wrote Series 37’s Episodes 17 & 33
Wrote 13×30′ episodes of the daytime drama as of 2023, having successfully completed the shadow scheme in 2015.
9×60′ episodes and 1×40′ (Covid) episode of the long-running medical drama
Original drama. Pilot script commissioned
Drama inserts for a BBC3 investigative piece
Commissioned to write the pilot episode of original drama series WARD 4 as part of this programme.
1×45′ radio Afternoon Drama exploring the life of a young female MP broadcast on Tuesday 22 November 2022
Wrote episode 1 of the Glenda Jackson series Fault Lines, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Tuesday 17th January
Afternoon drama play starring Lorraine Ashbourne, Michelle Keegan, and Jason Done, and produced by Pauline Harris, broadcast 27th July 2020.
Nominated: The Tinniswood Award 2021 for Best Audio Drama
Afternoon drama play, starring Sue Johnston and Christine Bottomley, directed by Pauline Harris
45′ Afternoon Drama, broadcast June 2015, produced by Pauline Harris and starring Gillian Bevan, David Fleeshman and Ashley Margolis. A BBC Pick of the Week.
45′ Afternoon Drama. Broadcast May 2013, produced by Pauline Harris and starring Maureen Lipman and Sarah Smart.
One woman show, welcoming audiences back to the Octagon Theatre.
Radio Drama performed by the Young Octagon Company, broadcast on Bolton FM.
Sell-out northern tour Feb-April 2016 and returned for a nationwide tour Feb-April 2018
New play with director Liz Stevenson and producer Nick Stevenson performed October 2017
Play development, commissioned as part of Monkeywood’s Uprising new writing scheme
Series of short dramas to illustrate Dunham Massey’s use as a hospital in WW1
Performed at the New Wimbledon Theatre in July 2013 as part of a double-bill of new writing
One of five writers contributing to an evening of short plays inspired by music. Produced by the Alligator Club (a collective of Northwest writers) July 2013
Development by Tobacco Factory Theatre, Bristol having won the Tobacco Factory’s Script Space V Competition
Runner-Up Prize: BBC’S Alfred Bradley Bursary Award, Jan 2014.
Received a reading at the Royal Exchange Theatre and a scratch performance at the Zion Arts Centre.
Short play filmed on location by Slung Low
Script in development. Extracts from the play were performed as part of the Library Theatre’s Re:Play festival.
Rehearsed Reading as part of the Bolton Octagon’s Top Five Festival of new writing
Young People’s Theatre Workshop, May 2011. Performed by the Young People’s Theatre Workshop (14-19 yrs) in the Studio, Royal Exchange.
Short-listed for the Pearson Playwriting Scheme 2009.
“A wonderful small play” – The Spectator
“A thing of rare beauty” – Camden New Journal
April 2007.
“A bold piece of work that engages on many levels” – Time Out, Show of the Week and Critic’s Choice
Writer on short film using VR technology in police upstander training.
Writer on a series of short films using VR technology to explore young people’s lived experiences.
Writer on a series of short films exploring lived experiences of coercive control.
Writer on short film. Director: Ruben Joakim Vos.
| Current | ||
|---|---|---|
| Production | Company | Notes |
| Associate Playwright | Box of Tricks Theatre | Currently one of three new Associate Playwrights at Box of Tricks Theatre. |
| Title TBA | Rollem Productions | Lead Writer on new cosy crime series for Rollem |
| Television | ||
|---|---|---|
| Production | Company | Notes |
| Casualty (2021-2023) | BBC | Wrote Series 38’s Episode 8 Wrote Series 37’s Episodes 17 & 33 |
| Doctors (2015-2023) | BBC | Wrote 13×30′ episodes of the daytime drama as of 2023, having successfully completed the shadow scheme in 2015. |
| Holby City (2016-2021) | BBC | 9×60′ episodes and 1×40′ (Covid) episode of the long-running medical drama |
| The Fortress (2020) | Lime Pictures/Channel 4 | Original drama. Pilot script commissioned |
| Sexual Harrassment On Trial (2019) | BBC3 | Drama inserts for a BBC3 investigative piece |
| BBC TV Drama Writer's Programme (2016) | BBC | Commissioned to write the pilot episode of original drama series WARD 4 as part of this programme. |
| Radio | ||
|---|---|---|
| Production | Company | Notes |
| Whipped (2022) | BBC | 1×45′ radio Afternoon Drama exploring the life of a young female MP broadcast on Tuesday 22 November 2022 |
| Fault Lines: Money, Sex and Blood (2022) | BBC | Wrote episode 1 of the Glenda Jackson series Fault Lines, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Tuesday 17th January |
| Just the Three Of Us (2020) | BBC Radio 4 | Afternoon drama play starring Lorraine Ashbourne, Michelle Keegan, and Jason Done, and produced by Pauline Harris, broadcast 27th July 2020. Nominated: The Tinniswood Award 2021 for Best Audio Drama |
| My Mother's Daughter (2018) | BBC Radio 4 | Afternoon drama play, starring Sue Johnston and Christine Bottomley, directed by Pauline Harris |
| Aliyah (2015) | BBC Radio 4 | 45′ Afternoon Drama, broadcast June 2015, produced by Pauline Harris and starring Gillian Bevan, David Fleeshman and Ashley Margolis. A BBC Pick of the Week. |
| Chopping Onions (2013) | BBC Radio 4 | 45′ Afternoon Drama. Broadcast May 2013, produced by Pauline Harris and starring Maureen Lipman and Sarah Smart. |
| Theatre | ||
|---|---|---|
| Production | Company | Notes |
| See You at the Octagon (2021) | Octagon Theatre | One woman show, welcoming audiences back to the Octagon Theatre. |
| One Night in Bolton (2021) | Young Octagon Company | Radio Drama performed by the Young Octagon Company, broadcast on Bolton FM. |
| Chip Shop Chips (2016-2018) | Box of Tricks | Sell-out northern tour Feb-April 2016 and returned for a nationwide tour Feb-April 2018 |
| Under the Market Roof (2017) | Junction 8 Theatre | New play with director Liz Stevenson and producer Nick Stevenson performed October 2017 |
| The Girl from Ward Four (2015) | Monkeywood Theatre | Play development, commissioned as part of Monkeywood’s Uprising new writing scheme |
| Dunham Massey (2014) | National Trust | Series of short dramas to illustrate Dunham Massey’s use as a hospital in WW1 |
| The Bear, The Owl and The Angel (2013) | Three Streets Productions | Performed at the New Wimbledon Theatre in July 2013 as part of a double-bill of new writing |
| Pages From My Songbook (2013) | Royal Exchange Theatre/Alligator Club | One of five writers contributing to an evening of short plays inspired by music. Produced by the Alligator Club (a collective of Northwest writers) July 2013 |
| The Boy in the Photograph (2013) | The Tobacco Factory Theatre | Development by Tobacco Factory Theatre, Bristol having won the Tobacco Factory’s Script Space V Competition |
| Baby Can You Hear Me? | BBC Writersroom/Live Theatre/Slung Low | Short play filmed on location by Slung Low |
| How The Cabinet Maker Crossed The Road | Script in development. Extracts from the play were performed as part of the Library Theatre’s Re:Play festival. Rehearsed Reading as part of the Bolton Octagon’s Top Five Festival of new writing |
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| Solomon Child (2011) | The Royal Exchange Theatre | Young People’s Theatre Workshop, May 2011. Performed by the Young People’s Theatre Workshop (14-19 yrs) in the Studio, Royal Exchange. |
| Letting in The Air (2009) | The Old Red Lion | Short-listed for the Pearson Playwriting Scheme 2009. “A wonderful small play” – The Spectator “A thing of rare beauty” – Camden New Journal |
| Streetlights and Shadows (2007) | The White Bear Theatre Club | April 2007. “A bold piece of work that engages on many levels” – Time Out, Show of the Week and Critic’s Choice |
| Film | ||
|---|---|---|
| Production | Company | Notes |
| Speak Up | Mother Mountain Productions | Writer on short film using VR technology in police upstander training. |
| Intercept | Mother Mountain Productions | Writer on a series of short films using VR technology to explore young people’s lived experiences. |
| Insight | Mother Mountain Productions | Writer on a series of short films exploring lived experiences of coercive control. |
| Inseparable | Writer on short film. Director: Ruben Joakim Vos. |
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