Philip Shelley

Philip Shelley runs his own script consultancy working with screenwriters and production companies. His producing credits include Margery & Gladys (ITV); Making Waves (ITV); First Sign of Madness (Carlton/ITV), which won awards at the New York TV Festival, Worldfest Houston, and the Columbus Ohio TV festival. As Head of Development for Drama at Carlton TV he script edited Anybody’s Nightmare, two Inspector Morse films, The Wench is Dead and The Remorseful Day; Kavanagh QC, Plain Jane, Cider with Rosie, Noah’s Ark and The Waiting Time.

As script editor, two series of Waking The Dead (BBC), A Good Murder (Sally Head Productions / ITV), Medics, Staying Alive and The Knock (ITV). As a trainer, he has run screenwriting and script-editing courses at De Montfort University Leicester, Bath Spa University, UAL, Northern Ireland Screen, Indie Training Fund, Baby Cow Productions, Arab Film Studios, Abu Dhabi, Singapore Media Academy, Screen Training Ireland, BBC Writers Room, ITV Studios and many others. He is now in the 13th year of running the Channel 4 Screenwriting Course, a course that has worked with much of the best new talent in UK screenwriting (eg Charlie Covell, The End Of The F***ing World; Vinay Patel, Doctor Who, Murdered By My Father; Theresa Ikoko, Rocks; Anna Symon, Mrs Wilson, The Essex Serpent; Chandni Lakhani, Dublin Murders; Nathaniel Price, Noughts & Crosses, Tin Star).

In 2024, Philip began running, for the first time, the Greenlight Screenwriting Lab, an initiative to work with the best new Irish screenwriters.