ABOUT

Writer, editor,
teacher.

Julie Everton has worked as a writer for stage, television and film for over thirty years. She has been a script editor, consultant and screenwriting tutor for more than twenty years, working with writers across Europe and beyond.

She is a Senior Lecturer in Humanities and Drama at the University of Brighton, where she teaches screenwriting to MA students and undergraduates. She is a member of the Centre for Arts and Wellbeing and has a particular interest in creating supportive, generative spaces in which writers can develop their individual voices.

As a playwright she has written six plays, drawn from personal experience, political events and visual materials — performed at the Royal Court Theatre, Soho Theatre, Chelsea Centre Theatre and Cockpit Theatre, with Paines Plough and on regional and national tour, and at the Brighton Festival fringe.

As a screenwriter she has written for CBBC, BBC Online, BBC Drama, ITV’s Crossroads and BBC Radio 4. She has worked as a script consultant on projects including a screenplay for HBO, an Estonian co-production for Allfilm, and UK Film Council Digital Shorts, and as a narrative consultant for Paper Seven Games.

She trained as a feature film script editor with USC screenwriting professors David Howard and Tom Abrams through the North by North West European screenwriting programme, and was trained to teach screenwriting by Phil Parker and the UK Film Council.

Education

BA (First Class Honours) English Literature — University of Leicester
MA 20th Century Literature — University of Sussex
Postgraduate Diploma in Dramatic Writing — University of Sussex
Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching — University of Brighton

Affiliations

Screenwriters Research Network · Centre for Arts and Wellbeing · Former member, writing groups at the Royal Court, Paines Plough and the Performing Arts Lab