Shelley Davenport

Writer

About Shelley Davenport

Shelley Davenport is a writer who is masterful in creating drama centred around complex female protagonists. She has a fearless, darkly comic voice but at the same time manages to make all her characters completely relatable and compelling.

Shelley is developing several original TV projects, one of which is with Objective Fiction and another with Cillian Murphy’s Big Things Films.

In Development

- Production
- Company
- Notes
- PIVOT
- Big Things Films
- Original series
- PRISON RIOT
- Objective Fiction
- Treatment for an original series
- DARK MATTER
- Objective Fiction
- Treatment for an original series
- BUG
- Objective Fiction
- Creator, writer, pilot commission, 6 x 60' original drama

TV

- Production
- Company
- Notes
- PRETEXT
- Origin Pictures
- 2023 Series outline commission
- DOWNLINE
- Objective Fiction
- 2021 Series outline commission
- INTEL
- Sunnymarch/BBC
- 2019 Pilot and series outline commission
- ASSETS
- Tiger Lily/Gunpowder & Sky
- Writers' Room
- ALL WRONG
- Darklight Productions/Blackpills USA
- 2017
  Additional writing - Season 2 | 10 x 10’ mini-series.
- A SINGLE YEAR
- Selected for the inaugural Betty & Peter list by Big Talk Productions/ LOCO Film Festival / CTBF
- 2016
  Longlisted by BBC Writersroom, Scriptroom 11

Theatre

- Production
- Company
- Notes
- DIRTY WORD
- Crazy Coqs at Brasserie Zedel
- 2017
- HAVE YOUR CAKE
- Theatre N16
- 2017
  Herstory Theatre Festival
- THE CIRCLE
- Arcola Theatre, The Southwark Playhouse
- 2017
  The Story Project
- TRYING
- New Diorama Theatre
- 2016
  The Story Project
- LONG GONE
- One act play | Longlisted for BBC Writersoom, Scriptroom 8
- FAIR TRADE
- Pleasance Islington, Rich Mix, Edinburgh & Latitude Festival
- 2009-2010
  Creator & Co-writer. | Commissioned & Executive Produced by Emma Thompson.