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Joy Wilkinson
NationalityBritish
Occupation(s)Screenwriter, playwright, author, director
Known forThe Sweet Science of Bruising, Doctor Who

Joy Wilkinson is a British screenwriter, playwright, author, and director.

Early life

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Wilkinson was born in Burnley, Lancashire. At age 14, she co-wrote Fried Eggs & Fag Ends, a play at the Lancashire Young Writers Festival that got reviewed in The Guardian by David Ward.[1] She worked as a journalist before winning the Verity Bargate Award.

Career

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Wilkinson has written several plays, such as Britain’s Best Recruiting Sergeant, Fair and The Sweet Science of Bruising, which opened at Southwark Playhouse in 2018.[2] In 2015, she was announced as a Screen Daily Star of Tomorrow for her thriller screenplay, Killer Résumé, which landed her on the 2014 Brit List.[3] She adapted Qiu Xiaolong's Inspector Chen Cao for BBC Radio 4, as well as several Agatha Christie adaptations. Among them were Ordeal by Innocence, Sparkling Cyanide and The Pale Horse.[4][5] In 2021, she wrote an adaptation of Hope Mirrlees' Lud-in-the-Mist for BBC Radio 4.[6]

On television, Wilkinson wrote for Doctors, Holby City, Casualty, and Land Girls. In 2012, Wilkinson adapted The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby as a five-part miniseries for BBC One. In 2018, she contributed the eighth episode of the eleventh series of Doctor Who, The Witchfinders.[7] Wilkinson would novelise her episode as part of the Target Collection,[8] and later wrote the short story The Simple Things.[9] She wrote the comic strip Black Powder for Doctor Who Magazine in 2021. She co-wrote the fourth episode of The Watch,[10] which is inspired by the Ankh-Morpork City Watch from the Discworld series of fantasy novels by Terry Pratchett. On March 17, 2022, it was announced that Wilkinson would be writing a feature adaptation of Kevin J. Anderson and Steven L. Sears’ Stalag-X, to be directed by Francis Lawrence.[11]

In 2020, her directorial debut, the period short film Ma'am, was released.[12] It won at the Emerging Talent Awards at the New Renaissance Film Festival. Wilkinson wrote and directed a follow-up short film, The Everlasting Club in 2021. In 2023, Wilkinson began production on her feature film debut, the low-budget thriller 7 Keys.[13]

Filmography

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Year Title Notes Broadcaster
2006–12 Doctors Wrote 36 episodes BBC One
2006 Casualty Episode: "Heads Together" BBC One
2006 Holby City Episode: "One for My Baby" BBC One
2011 Land Girls Episode: "Farewell My Lovely" BBC One
2012 The Life and Adventures of Nick Nickleby Wrote 4 episodes BBC One
2018 Doctor Who Episode: "The Witchfinders" BBC One
2020 Ma'am Also director
2021 The Watch Co-wrote: "Twilight Canyons" BBC America
2021 The Everlasting Club Also director
2022 The Pact Series 2, Wrote Episodes 4 & 5[14] BBC One
2023 Lockwood & Co.[15] Wrote 3 episodes Netflix
2024 Suspect Series 2, Co-writer with David Allison Channel 4
2024 7 Keys Feature film. Also director
TBA Wink Feature film.

References

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  1. ^ @joyofse19 (14 April 2021). "And my very first play and Guardian review!! 'Fried Eggs & Fag Ends', noted for its "sense of an inevitable slide i…" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  2. ^ "The Sweet Science of Bruising to transfer to Wilton's Music Hall | WhatsOnStage". www.whatsonstage.com. 10 January 2019.
  3. ^ Halligan2015-10-05T10:30:00+01:00, Fionnuala. "Joy Wilkinson, Stars of Tomorrow 2015". Screen.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ "The Pale Horse - S1 - Episode 1". Radio Times.
  5. ^ "BBC Radio 4 Extra - Agatha Christie, Ordeal by Innocence, 1. Stranger".
  6. ^ "BBC Radio 4 - Drama, Lud-in-the-Mist". BBC.
  7. ^ Jeffery, Morgan (20 August 2018). "Doctor Who season 11 writers revealed". Digital Spy.
  8. ^ "New Target novel collection in July 2020". Doctor Who.tv.
  9. ^ Flook, Ray (23 April 2020). "Doctor Who Writer Joy Wilkinson Pens New Graham-Focused Short Story". Bleeding Cool News And Rumors.
  10. ^ "Terry Pratchett's Discworld The Watch TV Series". Discworld Monthly.
  11. ^ "Francis Lawrence to Direct 'Stalag-X' for New Republic Pictures, About:Blank Producing". 17 March 2022.
  12. ^ "Award-winning former Burnley writer reveals joy after making directorial debut". www.burnleyexpress.net. 4 February 2020.
  13. ^ "UK shoot underway for Joy Wilkinson feature debut '7 Keys'; first image revealed (Exclusive)".
  14. ^ "The Pact series 2: Filming begins with brand new story".
  15. ^ Wiseman, Andreas (19 May 2020). "Edgar Wright, Nira Park, Joe Cornish & Rachael Prior Launch London & LA-based Film & TV Company Complete Fiction With Three Series In Works At Netflix". Deadline. Retrieved 1 December 2021.
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