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Marie Macneill

Senior Lecturer

Initially, Marie worked as an actress after training for three years at the Royal Central School of Speech & Drama. She has appeared in theatre and on TV, radio and film. She was artistic director of the theatre company Bedside Manners for 16 years, which toured and produced 45 original productions from Scotland to Cornwall, via the West End. Marie has written extensively for theatre (30 plays and musicals produced), film and television. In 1999 she was nominated for the TAPS (Television Arts Performance Showcase) writer of the year award for her Cornish sitcom St Hoggen.

Other television work includes 11 episodes of The Tribe (Cloud 9, Channel 5, and broadcast world-wide) Revelations (Cloud 9, Channel 5); she was commissioned to write two drama series for the BBC and a 12 part drama series for S4C. Marie has been commissioned to write five feature films and has had one feature optioned. In 2010 her low budget supernatural horror, The Dark Side, was selected to be part of the Cross Channel Film Lab development scheme in Brittany and Cornwall. In 2014 she worked on a zombie horror film, The Dead Sea. As a director and/or producer Marie has worked on over 75 shows for a variety of theatre companies and numerous short films. She has worked extensively as a script editor for Cornwall Film; UK Film Council; Kent Hothouse and Screen South; and many individual writers. Marie judges for the Celtic Media Festival, is a BAFTA voter and on the committee for the Royal Television Society (Devon & Cornwall). For many years she was on the Executive Council for the Writers' Guild of Great Britain. She has also written two novels - Swimming in the Rain, set in Penwith, and Strawberry Moon, set in Carrick (Falmouth). She was nominated for her short Katbottys (Catgut), directed by Jeremy Williams, in the short film category, Celtic Media Festival 2019. She has recently written To Whom It May Concern for filmmaker Orson Cornick, which is now in development for a summer 2021 shoot. She produced The Day of the Coyote for director Derek Hayes which is touring film festivals in 2020/21. In February 2020, Marie and actor John Macneill's company Mundic Nation toured the one-man theatre play, The Coastguard. She is currently working on Three Storms, inspired, in part by Castle Beach. In 2020, she completed a Chapter for an academic book on screenwriting. Through 2020/21 she is working with the BBC Writersroom as part of Cornish Voice to develop a drama series for television.

Marie's teaching at Falmouth University has included a number of extra-curricular storytelling and filmmaking projects including Spilling The Beans, where students created, wrote and made a mini-TV series from scratch; The Collaboration - the School of Film and Television working with AMATA actors to make television; My Talking Head - new monologues performed by AMATA actors. Marie has been nominated for Staff/Teaching Excellence Awards four times and has won twice. 
  • Mundic Nation
Emailmarie.macneill@falmouth.ac.uk
Telephone01326 259228 (ext 259228)
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    Qualifications

    Honours and awards

    YearDescription
    2019

    Nomination Celtic Media Festival

    2017

    Teaching Excellent Award. Falmouth University

    2016

    Katie Fforde Bursary Winner

    2011

    Teaching Excellence Award. Falmouth University.

    Membership of external committees

    • Royal Television Society. Devon and Cornwall Committee
    • National & International Judge Celtic Media Festival

    Research Interests

    Research interests and expertise

    Storytelling; Screenwriting; Script Editing; Script Mentoring; Script Consultancy; Producing; Directing Actors; Collaboration; loss - loneliness - grief - inequality.

    Research topics

    • Screenwriting
    • Playwriting
    • Storytelling
    • Film
    • Television drama
    • Grief

    Research Outputs

    Publications and research outputs

    Conference or Workshop Item

    Macneill, Marie (2019) The Meddle of the Muddle: How many captains does it take to steer a story and whose course is it anyway? In: Screenwriters Research Network 2019, 12th -14th September 2019, Poto, Portugal. Item availability may be restricted.
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    Performance

    Macneill, Marie and Macneill, John (2019) THE COASTGUARD. [Performance]
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    Other

    Guthrie, Mark, Oxborrow, Stephen and Macneill, Marie (2014) THE DEAD SEA. UNSPECIFIED. Item availability may be restricted.
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    Teaching

    Areas of teaching

    • Film; Television; Drama; Screenwriting; Producing; Directing

    Courses taught

    • BA(Hons) Television
    • BA(Hons) Film

    Policy engagement within Cornwall

    Engagement with organisations which contribute to the development of educational, cultural or socio-economic policies in Cornwal

    Penryn Community Theatre (roles have included Producer, Writer, Director and Committee), Second Thursday (organiser for Writers' Guild of Great Britain meeting in Cornwall), Reader for the Nick Darke Awards.

    Business Engagement

    Intellectual property

    Verity - screenplay - feature film
    Strawberry Moon - novel 
    Swimming in the Rain - novel
    The Coastguard - theatre play
    Katbottys (Catgut) - short film 

    Business engagement case studies

    BFI-Futures

    Consultancy and facility services

    Script consultancy and script editing for film, TV, radio and theatre 

    Professional engagement

    Professional/scholarly development

    Course: 
    London Screenwriters' Festival
    Year of completion: 
    2014
    Course: 
    Romantic Novelists Association Annual Conference
    Year of completion: 
    2018
    Course: 
    Screenwriters' Research Network
    Year of completion: 
    2018
    Course: 
    Romantic Novelists Association Annual Conference
    Year of completion: 
    2019
    Course: 
    Screenwriters' Research Network
    Year of completion: 
    2019

    Professional esteem indicators

    YearDescription
    2020

    National Judge Celtic Media Awards

    2018

    International and National Judge Celtic Media Festival

    2017

    Teaching Excellence Award. Falmouth University

    2017

    National Judge and International Judge Celtic Media Festival

    2016

    National Judge Celtic Media Festival

    2016

    Katie Fforde Bursary Winner

    2011

    Teaching Excellence Award. Falmouth University

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    • the_coastguard_review_29022020.docx

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