Amy recently wrote episode 3 of BEYOND PARADISE for Red Planet. Amy was previously a core writer for EastEnders for BBC1 and participated in writer’s rooms for an original comedy-drama series for Leftbank Pictures and a premium streamer and a drama series for STV and Channel 4. Her play POISON HATE AND VITRIOL was at Vault Festival 2023, produced by Chalk Line Theatre.

Amy’s script THE JUDE PROBLEM topped The Brit List 2020 receiving the highest number of nominations. Amy was named as one of the British writers to watch in Deadline’s TV writers The British Invasion.

Amy’s current original television projects include:

EDIE
West Road Pictures
A drama about an ordinary young woman and her fantasist daydreams, and her escapism from her cosy home life with her husband.

CHARLIE’S DEAD
Sister Pictures
A dark, comedic relationship drama about grief and learning to carry on, with a twist.

SUSPICIOUS MINDS
Wild Mercury
Nottinghamshire-set crime drama in which a granddaughter sets about solving the murder of her grandma as a spate of copycat killings begin.

UNTITLED
Studio Hamburg
Dark, comedic eco-drama.

TUPPERWARE
A dark comedy drama about a young female cannibal.

Amy’s play THE NOBODIES, originally staged at Vault Festival 2020 and produced by Chalk Line Theatre won the Common Award for 2020. The play is follows three working-class friends whose scheme to save the local hospital grows way beyond their control. It ran at The Pleasance Islington as part of their Edinburgh Fringe programme from 17th – 28th August 2021.

Writer Amy Guyler has deftly constructed an intricate play…bold, engaging and conducted with energy and commitment.
The Guardian

Amy wrote the short play OUT OF STOCK as part of Nottingham Playhouse’s digital theatre commission STILL LIFE which starred Julie Hesmondhalgh.

Amy Guyler’s shattering Out of Stock… gently inflicts a thousand tiny cuts while we barely glimpse the blade, each one stinging with shame, helplessness, and despair at callous officialdom.
inews

Amy’s first full-length play DIGGING DEEP was performed at the 2019 Vault Festival, supported by Lambeth Council, CALM and the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation.

Born and raised in Nottingham, she previously completed the BBC Doctors Shadow Scheme and wrote five episodes of Doctors for BBC1. Amy was nominated at the 2019 Edinburgh TV Festival’s New Writing Awards in their Debut Writer category, supported by Big Light Productions.