Today we’re hosting the BAFTA writers’ rehearsal for the NY Television Festival. Actors for the presentation were directed by Susan Jacobson.
From the BAFTA website:
BAFTA, in association with NY Television Festival, invited submissions from young UK comedy writers for short sitcom scripts.
The selected scripts were identified following a UK-wide competition hosted by BAFTA and the Rocliffe New Writing Forum.
The writers of the three winning pieces — Thomas Phipps & Peter Bowden, Greg de Roeck, and Anne-Marie Draycott & Charity Trimm — were awarded mentoring sessions with some of these prestigious professionals, and then flown to the U.S., courtesy of British Airways, for this presentation of their work in front of a NY Television Festival and BAFTA audience.
The three finalists were flown over from London to present their scripts as staged readings and will receive commentary on each from Phil Rosenthal, “Everybody Loves Raymond”, who will also participate in a brief Q&A.
From the NYTV Festival website:
The New York Television Festival was launched in 2005 as the industry’s first creative festival for television artists. A pioneer of the “independent television” movement, the NYTVF strives to construct a new and innovative platform for program development. While inspired by the independent film movement, the goals of this television festival are quite different. Where a film festival showcases completed works of art, the NYTVF exists as a year-round development incubator, providing independent artists will multiple opportunities to create, share and showcase their best and most promising ideas.
