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Theatre, Film and TV
Kat Buckle
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Shaun
Kitchener
Playwright and screenwriter
Shaun is a playwright and screenwriter.
He has participated in the Royal Court’s New Writers' Group and has been a writer on attachment at the Soho Theatre. His first play, Positive, received its debut professional production at the Park Theatre to critical acclaim, with the Times describing him as ‘a playwright to watch’ and The Stage comparing his ‘water-tight script’ to an ‘exceptional sitcom’. The play is published by Playdead Press. More recently a production of his play All That was nominated for Best Play and Performance Ensemble Offie awards and was praised by London Pub Theatres as 'exactly what theatre needs today.'
For television, Shaun is a core writer for popular Channel 4 drama Hollyoaks. Other TV work includes writing on Queerpiphany for Comedy Central and developing original comedies and comedy-dramas. In 2016, Shaun was a winner of the BAFTA Rocliffe Competition for TV Comedy.
Shaun also works as a journalist and has a fortnightly pop culture column in the Metro. His articles have appeared in a variety of publications including The Telegraph, Yahoo and Daily Mirror.
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Theatre, Film and TV
Kat Buckle
+44 (0)20 7393 4377
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CV
Television
Writer
Guests reveal their queer cultural 'lightbulb' moments.
Hit long-running drama about a group of teenage friends and their families.
Theatre
Writer
A timely look at love and monogamy; a funny, frank and razor-sharp examination of modern gay relationships.
Unrequited love, bitter break-ups, loud sex, the afterlife, dressage and accidental murder are all covered in this relentlessly entertaining collection of six short plays.
The story of Benji, a twentysomething living with HIV. This isn’t a story about doom, gloom and death, though – it’s about Benji’s struggles with stigma, and the anxiety that comes with it.
SPOILER: Nobody dies.
O one-act drama about Leanne, a young woman who faked her own death and escaped to live in a caravan in the woods under a new identity, a long way from home.
Writer & Director
Four friend try to breathe new life into their static love lives, with the help of gloriously campy Steps bangers.
A one-act two-hander about a former couple thrown back together by a huge storm a year after their split...
Other
Writer
Freelance journalist for The Telegraph, Yahoo, Daily Mirror and various online entertainment websites