Freddy
Syborn

Freddy has created and co-written both series of Bounty Hunters, a comedy-drama for Sky One, with Jack Whitehall - now in its second series.  He and Jack also co-wrote three series of Bad Education as well as the Bad Education Movie and a Sky Little Cracker.  Previously Freddy created and wrote another six-part sitcom, Cockroaches, for ITV2.

Recently, Freddy has been a co-executive producer and writing on Ms Marvel, with Bisha K. Ali for Marvel and Disney+. Freddy wrote an episode on Series 2 of Killing Eve; an episode of Sex Education for Netflix; and on Series 2 of Timewasters for ITV2. He has written episodes of forthcoming dramas Wolfe and All Creatures Great and Small. He has also been working on adapting Daniel Cole's novel Ragdoll for television with Sid Gentle.

He co-wrote feature film, Old Boys (BFI/Film 4), directed by Toby Macdonald, which premiered at The Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2018. He has also written a one-off episode about David Bowie for Sky Arts’ Urban Myths series. Freddy also wrote, produced and directed his short Capital, having created the successful podcast series of the same title. Capital won the Audience Award at the Dinard Film Festival 2019.

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 the Buzzcocks, Comic Relief, 8 out of 10 Cats, Mock the Week, Stand Up for the Week and Big Brother’s Big Mouth.