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Creative and business writer. Particular experience in website content, audio and video scripting, editing and rewriting. Difficult concepts in accessible language.
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Employment History
(2002 to 2004)
Working online for document-doctor.co.uk, proofing and editing various forms of text -- academic, promotional and public service
(1989 to 2002)
Writer and audio-producer
Writer and audio-producer for Motivation Cassettes Ltd, producing sales-training and promotional materials predominantly on video and audio-cassette for company sales forces: e.g. I.B.M., Volvo, Prudential, Midland Bank, Kodak, Merck Pharmaceuticals etc, etc. Involved liaising with clients, taking briefs, distilling jargon and technical language down to plain English, structuring and writing scripts, and -- in the case of audio -- choosing the voice-actors, running the recording sessions, and directing the performances.
Education
University of Edinburgh
MA First Class Honours, English and American Literature
Recent Projects
Writing and rewording web content for iva.freehelp.com.
• Writing video scripts for Regulatory Affairs Associates (Michigan) to appear on their web-site.
• Assessing and developing film-scripts for the London Script Consultancy
Ongoing:
Playwriting:
Plays produced professionally by Royal Court Theatre London, Traverse Theatre Edinburgh, Granada Television, BBC Radio.
Peggy Ramsey Foundation Playwriting Award 2003
(Literary Agent:
Christopher Oxford, The Tennyson Agency, 10 Cleveland Avenue, London SW20 9EW)
Audio-Production
Audio-book producer (mainly for Chivers Audio Books Ltd).
Working with actors such as Juliet Stevenson ('North and South'), Martin Jarvis ('Oliver Twist'), Timothy West (The Flashman Books), Peter Marinker ('Snow Falling on Cedars'), Harriet Walter ('The L-Shaped Room'), Tony Britton (Dick Francis and 'The Mayor Of Casterbridge'), Michael Kitchen ('Wuthering Heights'), Derek Jacobi (Oscar Wilde Short Stories) and Ken Stott, Peter Firth, Sian Phillips, Bill Paterson, Kelley Hunter, Stella Gonet, Simon Russell Beale, Alex Jennings, Emilia Fox, Julia Sawalha...
Book-Abridgement:
Work includes 'Persuasion', 'A Handful of Dust', 'Treasure Island', 'Diary of a Nobody', ‘The Secret Agent’ (Penguin Audio); 'A Passage to India', 'Robinson Crusoe', 'The Age of Innocence', ‘Tom Jones’, ‘The Moonstone’, ‘The Three Musketeers’, 'The Turn of the Screw’, ‘The Tenant of Wildfell Hall’ (Orbis Publishing); ‘Cobwebs and Cream Teas’ (River Audio Books); 'Muhammad: his life based on the earliest sources' (Meem Audio). (In general, abridgement entails taking a book of whatever length down to 27,000 words, or approximately 90 pages of double-spaced A4.)
Script-Reading:
Script-reader and script-editor for Writernet and Scriptvault. Assessing play and film scripts, writing detailed reports with suggestions for improvement and, on occasions, editing and rewriting.
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