Martin McNamara is an award-winning writer working across multiple platforms

 

Writes original drama for BBC Radio Four, including adapting Brendan Behan’s classic memoirs Borstal Boy

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Short films, 15 and The Parting Glass, selected for about 20 festivals around the world

 

Two feature scripts currently under option; Tell Me What You Want Me To Say & Shiny Objects

 

Winner, BBC Northern Ireland/Tony Doyle Bursary for screenplay Sworn Virgin 

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Stage play, Your Ever Loving, named best drama at the Edinburgh Festival 

 

Historical drama, Traitors, Cads and Cowards, set in Wandsworth Prison, performed in the prison

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Currently writing autobiography of a man who spent 15 years in jail for crimes he did not commit, and a low budget feature screenplay set in Broadmoor

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Background in journalism, writing for national newspapers, producing documentaries and podcasts, and a former TV news producer for Associated Press Television News.