Services
Having worked on over 25 hours of broadcast television drama as well as many feature films I can offer you the following services and skills:
- Script Editing: I can provide first-rate collaborative script editing services for your story at any stage, from idea or treatment to final draft, across television and film projects.
- Drama Development: I can source or develop and nurture single projects or series or a varied slate across television and film working with you and the stories you want to tell. I can help you find the appropriate and best writers for the books you have optioned or articles you have read. I can introduce you to agents and talent and help steer a path towards production.
- Production: I can produce with you or for you and help you package your feature film project with talent and potential finance partners and oversee all aspects of the script onto screen.
- Executive Producer: I can help you raise finance and make introductions, helping you work with both commercial and public funds, and support you creatively with film and television projects throughout the acquisition, development, production and post-production process.
- Webinars, Training, Workshops, Lectures: I can provide detailed training in script development skills, as well as in-depth sessions on screenwriting for you or your employees, where people are keen to learn the craft and hone their skills, based on years of practical experience of the work in the Industry, not just theory, to inform and illuminate.
Fees are available on enquiry, subject to individual or company requests, and the length and type of job or contract required. Happy to work with you or within your team.
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Testimonials
"Currently enjoying working with Sheryl on a feature film script in development at Bedlam, that needs a fair bit of excavation and deconstruction to see how to improve and resolve the story, plot and character issues. No small task. The work is creatively painstaking, but step by step Sheryl is endeavouring to clear a path that enables the writer to understand not only what's missing but why the story isn't quite landing, so they can hopefully generate some carefully guided but not prescriptive solutions. Her analytical abilities, specific script skills and narrative development experience has helped us make real progress, cheerfully and with hope."
Gareth Unwin Ellis – Producer – Bedlam Productions
"Sheryl understood the kind of authenticity I wanted to bring to the development of my screenplay for Solomon & Gaenor and let me have my head. She gave me good and appropriate script notes – which means not too many but the right ones. She had the contacts in Wales we particularly needed to bring in finance and when it came to production, she had great suggestions for crewing – including music, DOP and casting director. The film was nominated for an Oscar so together we didn’t do too bad."
Paul Morrison, Writer-Director
"Sheryl is the best kind of development executive – she has a keen story sense, great ideas (but doesn't believe she has a monopoly on them!), and an indefatigable work ethic. During the development process, she was a creative partner, confidante, and a champion for the project and the writer."
Dave Collard – LA-based Screenwriter
"Sheryl's insight into scripts is unrivalled and her 'three levels' of conflict idea is beyond useful. Her unquenchable passion for the power of screen stories is matched by her unquestionable professionalism and decency. One couldn't hope for a more supportive and generous colleague, whether for a single day's project-illuminating discussion or over the years it can take to travel from idea to screen."
Britt Harrison - Script Consultant & Screenwriter