ABI GRANT

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On page, stage & screen Abi Grant is an author, critic, and playwright. She contributes regularly to The Daily Telegraph, and her TV credits include ‘Hale and Pace’, ‘Naked Video’  and ‘Sooty and Sweep’. Her career falls into two distinct periods: her earlier work consists almost entirely of comedy; her more recent work also includes children's TV and various press dabblings. Agents Abi Grant is represented by Curtis Brown (theatre, TV, film and books) and ScriptWorks Ltd (script editing). For their contact details, please go to the Contact page. Just published Words Can Describe, Picador, 2009/2010 Print journalism TV reviews/previews (click on links, right) – The Daily Telegraph Recent fringe ‘Pride and Prejudice and Niggers’ – Script advisor ‘F*** You In The Age of Consequence’ – Script advisor/assoc producer Recent stage ‘Thomas and Friends’ – Arena show, national tour Script editor ‘Thomas and Friends’ – Arena show, national tour Script editor TV writing credits ‘Alas Smith and Jones’ – Talkback/BBC ‘Rory Bremner’ – BBC ‘Naked Video’ – BBC Scotland ‘Hello Mum’ – BBC ‘Spitting Image’ – Central ‘Hale and Pace’ – LWT ‘Paramount City’ – BBC ‘The Tourist Trap’ – Channel Four ‘Comedy Wavelength’ – Channel Four ‘Saturday Zoo’ – Channel Four ‘Thomas the Tank’ (60+ episodes,  Bafta nomination 2007) ‘Jack and the Pack’ ‘Sooty and Sweep’ Script editing ‘Pssst, the Really Useful Guide to Alcohol’ – Prospect Pictures/BBC ‘The Woman's Guide to Health’ – BBC ‘Thomas the Tank Engine’, Series 6, 7, 8 – HiT ‘Jack and the Pack’, Series 1 – Gullane ‘Sooty and Sweep’, Series 51 – HiT Theatre: West End ‘Radio Times’ Walgrave Productions Starring: Tony Slattery Book: Abi Grant Music: Noel Gay Dir: David Gilmore Birmingham Rep/Queens Theatre Shaftsbury Avenue Olivier Nomination (1992/3) Recent productions: Nottingham Arts Theatre, 2006 Published: Samuel French 2001 West End: Fringe ‘Brown Blues’ Winner 1987 Perrier Award Co-writer/dir/prod Award Edinburgh Festival Donmar Warehouse/National Tour ‘Still Crazy After All These Years’ Co-writer Starring: Helen Lederer Assembly Rooms Edinburgh, Purcell Rooms QEH, Donmar Warehouse, national tour 1993-94 Fringe ‘Asking for Trouble’ Co-writer Starring: Kit Hollerbach Assembly Rooms Edinburgh, Donmar Warehouse ‘The Best Man’ Co-writer/dir Starring: Suki Webster Edinburgh, Watford Other ‘The Secret Policeman’s Ball’ Writer Drury Lane, Channel Four ‘Hysteria 1 & 2’ Writer Duke of Yorks, Channel Four ‘Funny Women’ Writer Breast Cancer Awareness

The Daily Telegraph selected digital reviews Gossip Girl How Young Can I Get? Battlestar Galactica Boston Legal Storyville: The Orthodykes Grey's Anatomy Cooking in the Danger Zone The Reich Underground Stargate SG-1 ‘Radio Times’ The Independent: review Musical Heaven Guide to Musical Theatre