Rebekah Wilkinson: Writer
Rebekah Wilkinson is an English writer of stage, screen and audio drama who has written for BBC radio, Paines Plough Theatre Company, Perfectly Normal Productions and Quirky Films. You can contact Rebekah at rebekah.s.wilkinson@gmail.com
Key Credits
The English Compound (Writer)
Screenplay - Feature Film. Drama.
At a beautiful Red Sea resort in Egypt an ambitious British property agent's plans are transformed when she becomes becomes entangled in the lives of a twelve year old beggar and his activist brother as the country heads towards revolution.
(Developed from my short film script 'Hotel Soleil')
Top 10% of Scripts
Quarter Finalist:
Cinestory Fellowship Competition 2021
Second Rounder:
Austin Film Festival 2021
Heathens (Writer)
Television Series. Period Drama.
The true story of how Manchester United Football Club was born. Among the smoke and metal of Victorian industrial Manchester, a hard as nails railway works team from Newton Heath crash into the new elite Football League. Led by a manager determined to prove their worth to those who look down on them, they might just present a real threat to the football establishment – if jealously, violence and debt don’t tear them apart first.
Developed from my original feature film script
Optioned by Quirky Films 2019/20
Hotel Soleil (Writer)
Short Screenplay. Drama.
A chronically shy woman becomes a 12 year old cleaner’s only hope of survival when civil war breaks out.
Finalist: Script Competition
Finalist: Short Screenplay Competition
Finalist: Script Competition
Finalist: Unproduced Screenplay 2016
Semi-Finalist London 2016
Preliminary Finalist 2016
Commended: Freestyle Short Script Competition April 2016
Creative England / BFI
Talent Centre Mentee 2014-15
Heathens (Writer)
Feature Screenplay. Period Drama.
The story of how Manchester United Football Club was born.
Optioned by Perfectly Normal Productions in association with Jane Wright (2010-2013)
The Last Tenant (Writer)
Radio play. Ghost Story.
Maddy is a liar. A good liar. People believe her when she lies. But when she tries to tell the incredible truth about the dead man in her flat who is trying to kill her, no one will listen.
Optioned by Perfectly Normal Productions (2010)
The Christmas Fairy (Writer, Co-Producer)
Short Film. Drama.
At midnight, when her husband still hasn’t come home and the children are sleeping soundly, Sarah receives a strange visitor who shows her just how different her life could be, if only she had the courage to change it.
Directed by Andi Reiss
Produced by Yellow and Spa Road Productions (2007)
Dirty Girl (Writer)
Radio Play. Drama.
Rejecting her family and friends a teenage girl tries to find her estranged father but ends up face to face with what she's running away from.
Optioned by BBC Radio 4 (1998)
Jellyhead (Writer)
Stage Play. Drama.
A mother tries to reconnect with her troubled daughter before it's too late.
Selected for Paines Plough Theatre Writers Workshop
under the mentorship of Mark Ravenhill (1997)
Bloodshot (Writer)
Stage Play. Drama.
A farmer and a property developer battle over the ownership of a field.
Directed by Kay Fellows
Performed at the Canal Cafe Theatre, London (1996)
BA Hons in Dramatic Writing
Rose Bruford Drama College, London (1993-1996)
In Development
Future Babies (Writer)
Audio Drama Series.
In a future utopia where humans live in harmony with the planet, a couple are driven to break the controlled breeding law to have a child of their own.