Kate Brooke

British screenwriter

Kate Brooke is a British screenwriter.

Early life and education

She was educated at Oxford, where she read English. After Oxford, she studied at L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris before setting up her own theatre group in England.[1]

Career

While working in the theatre, she adapted a number of works for the stage,[2] including:

  • Graham Greene’s The Tenth Man
  • François Mauriac’s Thérèse Desqueyroux
  • Guy de Maupassant’s Bel Ami
  • Saki’s Beasts and Super-Beasts

Writing credits

Production Notes Broadcaster
Six Pairs of Pants
  • "Episode #1.1" (1995)
Channel 4
Family Affairs
  • 12 episodes (1998–2000)
Channel 5
Protesting Too Much
  • 6 episodes (co-written with Sally Phillips, 2000)
BBC Radio 4
Always and Everyone
  • "Episode #2.6" (2000)
ITV
Danielle Cable: Eyewitness
  • Television film (co-written with Terry Winsor, 2003)
ITV
The Forsyte Saga, Series II
  • Television miniseries (co-written with John Galsworthy and Phil Woods, 2003)
ITV
Secret Smile
  • Television film (2005)
ITV
Joanne Lees: Murder in the Outback
  • Television film (2007)
ITV
Wired
  • Television miniseries (2008)
ITV
Breaking the Mould
  • Television film (2009)
BBC Four
Case Sensitive
  • "The Point of Rescue" (2011)
ITV
The Making of a Lady
  • Television film (2012)
ITV
The Ice Cream Girls
  • Television miniseries (2013)
ITV
Mr Selfridge
  • 11 episodes (co-written with Andrew Davies, 2013–)
ITV
Bancroft
  • 4 part Thriller (2017)
ITV
A Discovery of Witches
  • 5 episodes (2018)
Sky One

Awards and nominations

Year Award Work Category Result Reference
2007 Edgar Allan Poe Awards Secret Smile Best Television Feature/Mini-Series Teleplay (shared with Nicci Gerrard) Nominated

References

  1. ^ Woods, Judith (14 December 2012). "Christmas TV drama has a new star written all over it". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 21 April 2024.
  2. ^ The Agency web-site, accessed on 6 January 2013

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