Tumi is a screenwriter from London. She most recently wrote an episode of RICHES for Greenacre/ITV, and wrote on GRANTCHESTER Series 7. She has contributed in a number of writers’ rooms, including a series adaptation of a classic novel with Left Bank Pictures/Sky, a Lagos set drama with Archery Pictures/Sky, and an original thriller by Steven Thompson with New Regency/Scott Free. Her drama pilot THE PHILADELPHIA HOPE was featured on the 2020 Brit List and also won the Triforce Writerslam competition, which earned her a development deal with Amazon Studios.

Tumi has also worked as a researcher for Sister Pictures, screenwriter Sian Robins-Grace, producer Katie Swinden and playwright and screenwriter Dennis Kelly.

In addition Tumi is an experienced and sought after reader for companies including World Productions, New Pictures, Gaumont and Romesh Ranganathan’s Ranga Bee. She also supported Ranga Bee in the writers’ rooms for the BBC One comedy AVOIDANCE and Sky’s ROMANTIC GETAWAY. Prior to these she was a reader for the BFI, BAFTA Rocliffe and at Steven Zaillian’s Film Rites, in Los Angeles.She is currently developing original television and film projects with a number of production companies.