Becky Prestwich

Writer - Stage / Radio / Television

Agent: Jean Kitson - jean@kitsonpress.co.uk

Becky Prestwich is a regular writer on Doctors and 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.

Work

Current

Associate Playwright

Box of Tricks Theatre

Becky is 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

Casualty

BBC

Writing on current series

Episodes:
Series 37 Episodes 17 and 33 now available to watch on BBC iPlayer here.

Doctors

BBC

Currently writing.
Has written 9 x 30′ episodes of the daytime drama to date, having successfully completed the shadow scheme in 2015.

Skeletons

Rollem Productions

Original pilot in development

Title TBA

Ruben Joakim Vos

Short film

Television

Intercept (2022)

Mother Mountain Productions

Development work for a series of short films using V.R technology to explore young people’s lived experiences

Holby City (2016-2021)

BBC

9 x 60′ episodes and 1 x 40′ (Covid) episode of the long-running medical drama.

The Fortress (2020)

Lime Pictures / Channel 4

Original drama under option. Pilot script commissioned.

Sexual Harassment on Trial (2019)

BBC3

Drama inserts for a new investigative piece for BBC3, currently available on BBC iPlayer.

BBC TV Drama Writer's Programme 2016

BBC

Commissioned to write the pilot episode of original drama series WARD 4 as part of this prestigious programme.

Radio

Whipped (2021)

BBC

1 x 45′ radio Afternoon Drama exploring the life of a young female M.P. Whipped broadcast on Tuesday 22 November 2022 and is available to listen to on BBC Sounds; you can listen here.

Fault Lines: Money, Sex and Blood (2021)

BBC

Wrote episode 1 of the Glenda Jackson series Fault Lines, broadcasting on BBC Radio 4 on Tuesday 17th January. Listen here.

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

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 Up:Rising 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
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.

Baby Can You Hear Me?

BBC Writersroom / Live Theatre / Slung Low

Short play filmed on location by Slung Low and available to view on The Space: a BBC and Arts Council service offering access to the arts.

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

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