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Scriptwriter & Playwright
Character-led drama. Unusual ideas. Human consequences.
Two Stage 32 Double Recommends
THE HELD — International Television Drama WINFIELD STREET — Feature Film
Original screenplays exploring human behaviour, moral complexity and the consequences of extraordinary choices.
Original television series and feature screenplays completed. Literary representation and development enquiries welcome.
Stories for Screen, Stage, and Page
I write character-led drama built around unusual ideas, moral questions and the consequences of human choices.
My work ranges from contemporary and speculative television drama to feature films, stage plays, novels, radio plays, and children’s narrative non-fiction. Whatever the form, I am interested in people first: how they behave under pressure, what they conceal, what they misunderstand, and how apparently small decisions can change the lives of others.
My background spans professional management, performance, broadcasting and live entertainment. Years spent as an actor have inevitably shaped the way I write — particularly my approach to dialogue, character, rhythm and what can be communicated without being said.
Selected Screen & Television Work
C.I.T.E.
Prestige television thriller | 10 × 60 minutes | completed
When a UN advisory unit monitoring public language links six inexplicable acts of violence to the same compassionate online listener, the team must determine whether a man who never instructed anyone to cause harm bears legal or moral responsibility — while more than 120 others say he saved their lives.
Professional screenplay coverage: Recommend — 99th percentile.
WINFIELD STREET
Feature screenplay | completed
When his mother dies, a cautious adopted accountant inherits the home he fled and discovers ‘Aunt Peggy’ was his mum’s lifelong partner and his father was gay — then a blood relative weaponises the secret to challenge the will and the family that chose him.
THE HELD
International television drama | 10 × 60 minutes | completed
When people declared dead begin returning without medical intervention, Professor Priya Sharma links the phenomenon to an astronomical anomaly she first detected forty-three years earlier — and races to prove it before people are buried or cremated who may not actually be dead.
civilian mistrust
Television thriller | 10 × 60 minutes | completed
When a British-American USAF security sergeant sees the return of a corrupt and dangerous CIA officer, his investigation uncovers a covert network that turns uncertainty into threats, rewrites the official record — and makes him the threat.
THE EGREGIOUS INDEX
Television drama | 10 × 60 minutes | completed
As prison cells run out, a Justice Secretary creates a system that lets convicted people choose how to serve their sentence within strict criteria based on harm and risk — until one man chooses to serve outside prison and kills someone.
WRITING FOR STAGE
Alongside my screenwriting, I write for theatre.
My stage work shares many of the preoccupations of my screen projects: moral uncertainty, human behaviour, humour in unexpected places and characters forced to reconsider what they thought they knew.
Projects include an adaptation of C.I.T.E. as a stage thriller alongside original plays developed specifically for live performance.
WRITING FOR CHILDREN
I am also the creator and writer of OUR P.A.L.S. BOOKS — Planet’s Amazing Living Species, a series of illustrated narrative non-fiction books introducing children to remarkable animals and the real environments in which they live.
Each story follows an individual young animal through a factually grounded adventure, combining storytelling, humour and natural history while encouraging curiosity about the living world.
Philip the Puffin, Finlay the Ferret, Marnie the Monarch and Popsie the African Penguin are among the completed titles.
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I'M NO MUG
Three years after his wife Anna dies, Bill still talks to her as though she were upstairs. His growing feelings for Anna’s supportive best friend Susan shock him, and guilt tries to bury them — but if he wants happiness again, he must face the pain of allowing himself to feel.
All artwork shown on this page is mock-up concept material only and not final publication artwork.
CONTACT
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Phone
gary.bland@garybland.biz
+44 1843 73 11 85
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