Freddy Syborn

Freddy has created and co-written Bounty Hunters, a six-part comedy-drama for Sky One, with Jack Whitehall. He and Jack also co-wrote three series of Bad Education as well as the Bad Education Movie and a Sky Little Cracker.
Freddy created and wrote another six-part sitcom, Cockroaches, for ITV2. He co-wrote a second feature film, Old Boys (BFI/Film 4), directed by Toby Macdonald. He has also written a one-off episode about David Bowie for Sky Arts’ Urban Myths series, and contributed sketches to Jeremy Dyson’s series Psychobitches.

In 2013, Freddy co-wrote and co-directed a short, Frenching the Bully, with Florence Keith-Roach. In 2015, he wrote and directed his first short, Isla Traena, starring Daniel Lawrence Taylor, Antonia Thomas and Phil Wang. It was selected for the London Short Film Festival, as well as the Palm Springs, New Orleans, Mill Valley and San Jose film festivals.
In 2017, Freddy wrote and directed a micro-budget feature-length experiment, Damascene, a film shot entirely on the GoPros worn by two cyclists travelling together through south London. It stars Henry Lloyd-Hughes and Kate Kennedy. So far, Damascene has been selected to be shown in competition at the New Orleans Film Festival.

Freddy is also a prizewinning playwright with work staged in London, Edinburgh and Cambridge. His book about comedy, A Good Bullet, was one of the Independent's books of the year 2013. His joke-writing credits include A League of Their Own, Never Mind theBuzzcocks, Comic Relief, 8 out of 10 Cats, Mock the Week, Stand Up for the Week and Big Brother’s Big Mouth.