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Theatre, Film and TV
Amanda Davis
+44 (0)20 7393 4457
Email Amanda Davis
Oriane
Messina
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Fay
Rusling
Writers for television
Fay and Oriane are a prolific and successful comedy writing partnership, part of the teams behind multi-award winning comedies Green Wing, Smack the Pony and Campus for Victoria Pile and Channel 4.
The duo created and wrote ITV drama Brief Encounters, a series based on Ann Summers’ CEO Jacqueline Gold’s memoir Good Vibrations.
They have written 5 episodes of Simon Blackwell, Martin Freeman and Chris Addison’s Breeders (Avalon) which comically studies the trials and tribulations of modern parenting. The third series of the critically acclaimed show premiered on 9th May 2022 on FX in America and will air on Sky One in the UK later this year.
Fay and Oriane have recently written for and script edited on Season 2 of Avenue 5 for Armando Ianucci, as well as co-writing two episodes of Hitmen for Tiger Aspect and Sky.
They are now developing their first film Silver Swans with CrossDay Productions.
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Theatre, Film and TV
Amanda Davis
+44 (0)20 7393 4457
Email Amanda Davis
CV
Film
Writer
Television
Writer & Creator
Drama series
Comedy
Writer
Series 3
Series 2, Episodes 3 and 7
TV Comedy
Comedy sketch show performed by a cast of children.
Comedy sketch show. Jon Culshaw and Debra Stephenson portray a host of well-known stars.
Comedy sketch show. Jon Culshaw and Debra Stephenson portray a host of well-known stars. The series has 23 impressions, including Anne Robinson, Ricky Gervais and Gene Hunt.
CBBC series introducing children to gruesome events and ghastly characters from British and international history.
Pilot. Live action script for Fox Network
Comedy sketch show set in a surreal parallel universe where film and TV special effects are part of everyday life. In this world, superheroes, wizards and dinosaurs are commonplace in the daily merry-go-round of car chases, explosions and disasters.
Comedy sketch show
Comedy pilots
Co-writer & Script Editor
There is a strong undercurrent of female empowerment and friendship here, and the cast is excellent
Victoria Segal
The Sunday Times on Brief Encounters
“ITV have a new gem though, and it’s a perfect antidote to everything else on the small screen – a comedy-drama about the lingerie business in the Eighties”
Ben Travis
Evening Standard on Brief Encounters
“As a depiction of a very British sexual revolution, it was as soapy as scented bubble bath, as light as gossamer knickers (that’s enough, ed). And, like a 1982 playlist on shuffle, the era-reminding hits kept on coming: Human League, Modern Romance, a moody climax of Ultravox’s ‘Vienna’... Now that’s what I call an ITV drama”
James Jackson
The Times on Brief Encounters