Angharad Elen

Angharad writes for TV, film and theatre in both English and Welsh.

She was one of the BBC Drama Pilot Scheme writers 2023.

 

She has three drama series in development – DO NOT GO GENTLE! with Mammoth Screen, THE NIGHT THEY VANISHED with BBC Studios and CALON LÂN / I HEART YOU with Triongl. She also has a theatre show in development, OLION, that will tour Wales in September 2024 as well as a feature film in development with Ffilm Cymru Wales, PIGEON, which will be directed by Euros Lyn.

 

She created the Welsh language drama series STAD (6×60’) for S4C in 2021, co-storylining the series and scripting three episodes. In 2018 she co-wrote the Welsh language scenes in the ‘Tywysog Cymru’ episode of THE CROWN (Leftbank/Netflix) and was Associate Producer on William McGregor’s debut feature, GWEN (Endor/BFI) starring Maxine Peake. A pre-school live action series she created – DEIAN A LOLI (Cwmni Da for S4C) – has been in production for 8 years running, has won numerous awards, has been sold internationally and is now a book series and has a feature film in development. She is currently producing the first theatre adaptation of the show, Y RIBIDIREW OLAF, which will tour Wales in May-June 2024. Her drama and documentary productions have won a Broadcast Award, a New York Film and Television award and numerous Bafta Wales and Celtic Media Festival awards.

 

In 2021, she made the leap to become a freelance writer after working for 16 years as a drama and factual producer at Cwmni Da. Before then, she spent three years as Literary Manager and dramaturg for bilingual new writing theatre company Sgript Cymru. She has an MA in Creative Writing and first class BA Hons in Welsh Literature and Philosophy from Cardiff University. She is an EAVE Producers’ Workshop graduate and works part-time as Development Executive at Triongl production company in Cardiff.

 

 

She lives near the sea in north west Wales with her partner and three children.

Angharad Elen
is represented by:
Charlotte Knight office@knighthallagency.com
+44 20 3397 2901