Joe Willis

Joe Willis is a Queer Northern writer who uses the vast worlds of genre storytelling to explore the strange, surreal and macabre within the everyday. Often inviting you in through a unique lens of familiar settings, offbeat humour and a bittersweet tone. Think Alan Bennett meets Diablo Cody...for a cup of tea in a graveyard.


​Their original spec scripts have led to them being selected for the following schemes: BBC Writersroom Northern Voices, BBC Children’s Voices, Screen Yorkshire Flex and BAFTA Connect. They have also written for BBC Sketch Show The Amelia Gething Complex, had short films funded by the BFI Network and had their TV pilot ‘It’s My Party’ performed as part of Sky Studios Table Reads. On top of this they regularly mentor writers and provide script editing services for BFI Network Script Labs.





Yorkshire




  • Lord of the Free Range (Short, 2023) - Writer, BFI Network Supported.

  • It's My Party - (Dark Comedy TV Pilot, 2022) Co-Created with afshan d'souza-lodhi. Produced by Public Display of Affection Films. Chosen for Sky Studios Table Reads.

  • Domestic Bliss, (Short, 2021) - Writer/Director, BFI Network Supported.

  • Amelia Gething Complex Series 2 (Comedy Series) - Writer, Episode 3 and Part of
    Larger Series writers room


Currently have projects in development with Tyke Films, Paradise City and Candle and Bell Films.

Books, Comedy, Film, Audio, Television, Theatre