ABOUT JULIE EVERTON

Writer, editor,
teacher.

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

I am a senior lecturer of Literature and Creative writing at University of Brighton, where I teach screenwriting to MA students and undergraduates. I am a member of the Centre for Arts and Wellbeing and have a particular interest in creating supportive, generative spaces in which writers can develop their individual voices.

As a playwright I have 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 I have written for CBBC, BBC Online, BBC Drama, ITV’s Crossroads and BBC Radio 4. I have 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.

I 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.

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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