Lydia is a writer for film, television and theatre. Prior to that, she worked as a newspaper journalist for the Financial Times. FIXER, her first full-length play, opened at the 2009 HighTide Festival in Suffolk. It was revived at Oval House in 2011 and is published by Nick Hern Books. Her second, COMPLIANCE, was written while she was Pearson playwright in residence at Paines Plough, and won the Catherine Johnson award for Best Play. Other work includes CALCULATING KINDNESS, which opened at Camden People’s Theatre in 2016. She has previously been on attachment to the National Theatre and the Royal Cort.

Film – current projects

A Little Music
Original psychological drama for Film4/Potboiler Films.

Television – current projects

The Fifth Child
4×60 adaptation for BBC/Starling Pictures.

End of Days
6×45 original series for Channel 4/Kudos.

Telling Stories
6×45 adaptation of Valerie Windsor’s psychological thriller novel for Hillbilly Films.

Get Millie Black
1×45 episode for Motive Pictures/Channel 4.

Television credits

His Dark Materials
1×60 episode, with Jack Thorne. Bad Wolf/BBC.

Noughts and Crosses
6×60 episodes. Mammoth/BBC.

The Last Kingdom
1×60 episode. Carnival/Netflix/BBC.

Riviera
2×60 episodes. Sky Atlantic/ Archery.

Camouflage
1×30 short film for Channel 4’s Coming Up 2012 series. Touchpaper/ C4.

 

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