Marie Macneill

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.