Karen Hope |
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Writer/Director |
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christina@imaginetalent.co.uk |
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+44 (0)7876 685515 |
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Born 'n' bred Geordie, now London-based, with strong Northern roots. Passionate about edgy, character-driven dramas, with social and racial diversity at their core, foregrounding flawed and complex female characters. Award-winning theatre & radio playwright/director (GLA/LBC radio playwrights award; UK entry for Prix Italia Awards; Runner-up, Verity Bargate Award; Nominee, Sunday Times Best New Play Award; publication by Methuen Books; productions throughout the UK and off-Broadway). Short film success as writer/director includes over 30 international short film festival screenings and six ’Best Film’/ ‘Best Director’ awards. As a feature screenwriter, Karen’s coming-of-age girl gang drama, ‘Ladykilaz’, was selected as a Nicholl Fellowship Top 50 script. An alumna of Edinburgh International Film Festival Talent Lab, Filmonomics, Kinoteka, and Triangle UK screen directing talent schemes, as well as a member of Directors UK, Karen is currently transitioning into TV drama directing.
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MEMORY GIRL (writer/director) | Feature. Psychological thriller, adapted from Karen’s critically acclaimed stage play, FOREIGN LANDS. |
LADYKILAZ (writer/director) | Feature. Girl gang coming-of-age drama. Selected as a 2013 Nicholl Fellowship Top 50 script. |
ATOMIC (writer) | Feature. Thriller about personal and political betrayal set against the backdrop of nuclear tests in 1950’s Mormon Nevada. |
BEFEHL 101 (ORDER 101) (writer/director) | Short. Psychological thriller. Two young Berlin Wall border guards engage in a psychological game of chess with only two outcomes: escape to the West – or being shot dead in the attempt. |
CORONATION STREET (multicam director trainee) | ITV Studios. Selected as one of 12 emerging UK drama directors for ITV Studios' multicam director training scheme on the set of CORONATION STREET. |
CASUALTY (shadow director) | Continuing drama series. BBC Wales. Shadow director on two episode block of CASUALTY through Directors UK 'Inspire' career development programme, mentored by writer/director Paul Unwin. |
HELL TO PAY (writer/director) | 13 minutes. Comedy drama. A reality TV celebrity pays the price of fame on a taxi journey to an unexpected destination. |
BUON GIORNO SAYONARA (writer/director) | 8 minutes. Italian-Japanese romantic comedy. |
THE THRILL OF LOVE (director) | 'Film noir' style drama by Amanda Whittingdon about Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in England. Tower Theatre, London. |
FOREIGN LANDS (writer) | Psychological thriller. Finborough Theatre, London. |
FOREIGN LANDS (writer/director) | Landor Theatre, London. |
RIPPED (writer) | Body-building comedy-drama. Soho Poly Theatre Company, Cockpit Theatre, London. |
ROCKING THE CRADLE (writer) | Geordie family life drama. Live Theatre, Newcastle upon Tyne. |
MISSING THE MELODY (writer) | Dramatic exploration of deafness. BBC Radio 4. |
LOTUS BLOSSOM (writer) | Drama about wartime evacuees and Chinese foot-binding. |