Question

[Ngoc Duong]

Giúp mình làm topic: talk about your background với 🙏❤

Answer 1

[Yu Ri Na]

I love working as writer and I have written on a fairly wide range of drama for the BBC, ITV and Channel 4, everything from the medic shows like "Where The Heart Is" and "Holby" to Comedy Drama such as "Paradise Heights" and "the Last Detective'. Like most creative people I would hate to find myself pigeonholed. At the moment I am writing a Rom -com, a Comedy-Horror and researching a big historical drama. No fear of being pigeon holed just yet. I've also written and directed four short films and a feature film, which was completed this year and has me hungering for more.

Answer 2

[Yu Ri Na]

As a kid I learnt to write late, so to amuse myself I actually wrote scripts as early as fifteen because I could only write the way I talked. I still have trouble writing letters because they’re just too chatty. I thought I’d died and gone to heaven when email and I.M came in. My first script as a kid was about a Welsh Village called QuayTyllch – a name I made up - where everyone just died horrible deaths. Morbid stuff, but my brother read it and wet himself, the first and only time in his life I’ve made him laugh. The serious writing started at drama school in Manchester where Willy Russell and Dave Simpson were resident writers. Dave got my first radio play on and Willy commissioned a half hour script from me called “Teaching Matthew” (a mickey take of Educating Rita) which we did for BBC schools.. . .. . seven years later. So you might say I was lucky.