Nick Leather is a British screenwriter and playwright, best known as the creator of the drama series The Control Room for BBC One, as well as the CBBC children's series Rocket's Island.
Nick Leather | |
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| Nationality | British |
| Occupation(s) | Screenwriter, Playwright |
| Known for | The Control Room Rocket's Island Hollyoaks |
Early life edit
Leather grew up in Newton-le-Willows. He worked for a time at local newspaper The Newton Guardian, the experience inspiring him to write.[1]
Career edit
Leather began in theatre, with his first play All The Ordinary Angels produced by Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre, and later winning the Pearson Award for Best New Play. He would become the Royal Exchange's Playwright-in-Residence. He subsequently moved into radio and then television, writing for series such as Justice, Secrets and Words and Jimmy McGovern's Moving On, as well as multiple episode of Hollyoaks. In 2012, he won the Writer’s Guild Award for Best Episode Of A Continuing Drama for his work on Hollyoaks.[2]
In 2012, he created the children's series Rocket's Island, about a family taking care of foster children at their island farm.[3] It was nominated for a BAFTA children's award in the drama category in 2016 but lost out to the winner Refugee.[4] Leather would alternate between adult and children's drama, writing for McGovern's Broken, and the Apple TV+ thriller Suspicion, as well as The Dumping Ground and The Worst Witch. In 2018, he wrote the television film Mother's Day, based on an infamous IRA bombing attack in Warrington, close to where Leather had grown up and which he had memories of.[5]
In 2021, the BBC commissioned The Control Room, a three part thriller about an Emergency call handler, which would air on BBC One in 2022.[6] Leather was inspired to write the series by a real-life health-scare involving his daughter.[7][8] It was announced on 8 December 2022 that Leather was writing a six-part thriller for BBC One, Nightsleeper.[9]
References edit
- ^ "Mother's Day writer: 'It would be wrong if the story of the Warrington bombing and the Parrys wasn't told'". 3 September 2018.
- ^ "Writers' Guild Awards 2012".
- ^ "Rocket's Island". www.all3mediainternational.com. Retrieved 2021-06-09.
- ^ "2016 Children's Drama | BAFTA Awards". awards.bafta.org. Retrieved 2022-01-18.
- ^ "Mother's Day writer reveals what he almost got very wrong with the drama". Digital Spy. 3 September 2018.
- ^ "BBC Drama Reveals Raft of New Commissions and Commissioning Roles". 30 March 2021.
- ^ "The Control Room writer explains real-life inspiration for thriller".
- ^ "The Control Room". 13 July 2022.
- ^ "The BBC commissions new suspense thriller Nightsleeper from Fremantle's Euston Films".
External links edit
- Nick Leather at IMDb