Vivienne Harvey

Writer

Agent

Simon Blakey
  • +44 207 908 0977

Vivienne’s first TV commission EIGHTEEN won an RTS Award in 2018. She wrote the final two episodes of Writers Guild Award winning radio drama STONE and her first single for Radio 4 PLAYING DEAD was shortlisted for the Tinniswood Award, both 2019.

Vivienne grew up in Glasgow and originally trained as an actor. She was selected for the prestigious Channel 4 Screenwriting Course in 2015 and the Screenskills/MediaXchange Advanced TV Drama Writing initiative 2017/18 – which culminated in a writers exchange in Los Angeles.  She was also selected for the inaugural BAFTA Connect Membership programme in 2022.

TELEVISION AND FILM

SCABBY QUEEN                                                                                         In Development
Book Adaptation in development with
Moonage Pictures

SILENT WAR                                                                                             In Development
Book adaptation in development with
Ringside Studios/Anagram (Sweden)

BADLANDS                                                                                                  In Development
Based on Swedish crime thriller ‘Watching You’ by Arne Dahl
TV Crime Drama Serial
Sid Gentle Films

THE MIGRANT                                                                                               In Development
Xilam Animation, France
Feature Film
Dir: Kan Muftic

MRS SIDHU INVESTIGATES                                                                      
2 x 90’ ep of new crime comedy-drama
Monumental Pictures/Acorn
Starring Meera Syal & Craig Parkinson

SHETLAND Season 8                                                                                                 
Silverprint Pictures / BBC
1 x 60′ Episode
Starring Ashley Jensen, Phylis Logan and Jamie Sives

WOLFE Season 2
Writers room & 1 x 60′ Episode
AbbottVision / Sky TV

HARLOTS
Series 3 Episode 5
Starring Samantha Morton, Liv Tyler, Lesley Manville & Alfie Allen
Monumental Pictures/Hulu/BBC

CLINK
Episode 4 ‘Cribs’
LA Productions/Channel 5

THE INDIAN DETECTIVE
Crime comedy drama set in Mumbai and Toronto
Finale episode 1 x 60’
Starring Russell Peters, Christina Cole, Anupam Kher & William Shatner
Big Light Productions/CTV/Netflix
Winner – Golden Screen Award – Canadian Screen Awards 2019

MOVING ON VIII – EIGHTEEN
1x 45’ Episode
Single drama for the series created by Jimmy McGovern
Starring Rosie Cavaliero, Antonio Aakeel & Chris Gascoyne
LA Productions for BBC1
RTS Award Winner 2018

Critics’ Choice, The Sunday Times

‘…a timely depiction of immigration, bureaucracy and humanity’ Radio Times

‘Heart-rending stuff’ The Times

ROTTENROW Pilot Script
Crime Drama set in Glasgow Channel 4 – 4Screenwriting

HIDE & SEEK
Short Film about a Kurdish teenager during the 1990’s Iraq war
Supported by the Kurdish Re-gional Government
Pirmam Productions, Director: Namak Khoshnaw

‘Strikingly accomplished’ – Tim Robey, Daily Telegraph

MAM
Short Film about a child-headed family, set in Sheffield
Director: Hugo Speer Company: Vigo Films
Starring: Josie Lawrence, Ronan Carter, Tisha Merry & Paul Barber
Winner: Best International Short – Williamsburg Independent Film Festival
Winner: Best Short – Hull International Short Film Festival

 

RADIO

STONE – 5 Part Crime Serial
First episode of the final series starring Hugo Speer as DCI Stone.
BBC Radio 4 – Producer Nadia Molinari

PLAYING DEAD
Original Radio Drama set in Iraqi Kurdistan
BBC Radio 4 – Producer Nadia Molinari
Starring Nadia Emam, William Ash, Shervin Alenabi & Shaniaz Hama Ali
Shortlisted for the Tinniswood Award 2019
Critics’ Choice – Radio Times

STONE – 10 Part Crime Serial
Final two episodes of Manchester set crime drama starring:
Hugo Speer, Christine Bottomley, Jill Halfpenny and Kieran O’Brien
BBC Radio 4 – Producers Nadia Molinari & Gary Brown
Winner – Best Radio Drama – Writers Guild Awards 2019
Finalist – BBC Audio Drama Awards 2019

STONE – Series Four, Five & Six
Episodes for Danny Brocklehurst’s crime drama
Guest stars: Gary Lewis, Matthew McNulty, Leanne Best & Reece Noi
BBC Radio 4 – Producer Nadia Molinari Pick of The Week – Radio 4

MIND THAT CHILD
Original Radio Comedy Drama
Staring 14 year-old BAFTA winner Daniel Kerr
BBC Radio Scotland – Producer Gaynor MacFarlane

 

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