Anna Maloney is a British television screenwriter.
She won the BAFTA for Television Craft: New writer in 2003 for her Channel 4 television drama Falling Apart, based on interviews with women and men who had experienced domestic abuse.[1][2] [3] The director, Brian Hill, won the BAFTA for Television Craft: New Director - Fiction for the production.[1]
Sh won the 2017 World Music & Independent Film Festival (WMIFF) award for best screenplay in a short film, for Love Somehow, a film about Caitlin Thomas, adapted from Phil Bowen's The Same Boat.[4][5]
Her 2020 Safer at Home was one of the Unprecedented series of plays produced by the BBC at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, for which cast and crew participated remotely.[6][7]
She won the 2022 CWA Debut Dagger (now the CWA Emerging Author Dagger) for her forthcoming[8] novel The 10.12.[9][10] It involves a train hijack, a woman who resists it, and the consequences.[11] She had been longlisted for the same award in 2019 for The Right Man.[12]
Maloney has a degree in humanities from the University of Greenwich and an MA in screenwriting from the University of the Arts London.[13] She lives in south east London.[8]
References
edit- ^ a b "Television Craft in 2003". awards.bafta.org. BAFTA Awards. Retrieved 1 August 2024.
- ^ "Falling Apart". www.centuryfilmsltd.com. Century Films. Retrieved 1 August 2024.
- ^ "Brian Hill: Falling Apart". www.curtisbrown.co.uk. Retrieved 1 August 2024.
- ^ "2017 Winners". wmiff2017. WMIFF. Retrieved 1 August 2024.
- ^ "Love Somehow - Promotional video". University of Greenwich. Retrieved 1 August 2024.
- ^ "BBC Four - Unprecedented". BBC. Retrieved 1 August 2024.
- ^ "BBC Four - Unprecedented, Series 1, Episode 2". BBC. Retrieved 1 August 2024.
- ^ a b "Anna Maloney". David Higham Associates. Retrieved 1 August 2024.
Anna is working on her debut novel, The 10.12 ...
- ^ "The 10:12". The Crime Writers' Association. Retrieved 1 August 2024.
- ^ "Emerging Author Dagger". The Crime Writers' Association. Retrieved 1 August 2024.
- ^ "Double Daggers for Celestin at CWA awards as Craven and Hallett also bag prizes". The Bookseller. Retrieved 1 August 2024.
Her novel The 10:12 is about a train hijacking and the woman who leads a counter attack, and the aftermath.
- ^ "CWA Announce Longlists for Prestigious Crime Writing Daggers". The Crime Writers’ Association. 2019. Retrieved 1 August 2024.
- ^ "Anna Maloney". LinkedIn. Retrieved 1 August 2024.
