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After training as an actor at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, I set up and ran the theatre company BEDSIDE MANNERS for 16 years, writing and directing some 45 touring shows. I went on to write for television, notably THE TRIBE for 2 years (11 episodes), which was broadcast on Channel 5 and world-wide. I have been commissioned many times to write feature films and TV series. My latest (2026) A PASTIS TO INDIA is currently in development.
I am Cornish, and live with my actor husband John Macneill (who’s Scottish). I love to swim, but during the winter months I’m confined to an indoor pool in Falmouth. I know!
For the last decade I have been working at the School of Film and Television, Falmouth University, as a senior lecturer specialising in Screenwriting. I left in June 2025.
I am available as a Script Consultant, Script Editor, Reader and of course Writer and Director.
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STRAWBERRY MOON novel 2025. Full manuscript request
A PASTIS TO INDIA feature film. In development with Sneh Gupta
LONGSHORE DRIFT – THE LEGEND OF LOE POOL audio, 2024. Producer Tiffany Truscott https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0m7rl8k
13 CORNISH GHOST STORIES anthology. No 9 Independent Bookshop Charts 2024. Co-editor with Joanne Ella Parsons. Publisher Mabecron Books.
THE HAG STONE short 2024 – Writer and director. Mundic Nation Ltd
BBC Writers Room – Cornish Voices, 2021 developing series END OF THE LINE
THE COASTGUARD play 2020. 5-star review. writer and director. Mundic Nation Ltd
Shorts: KATBOTTYS – Writer. Director Jeremy Williams. (nomination Celtic Media Festival) 2019; KESTAV Script Editor. Director Christopher Morris. (best Short, Celtic Media Festival) 2023 ; EXIT (co-writer with director, Matilda Harding-Kemp) 2026
Marie won Katie Fforde Bursary 2016 – Romantic Novelists Association