Kefi Chadwick
Kefi writes for film, TV and stage.
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Theatre, Film and TV Jessica Cooper
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Biography
Current feature projects include an adaptation of her critically acclaimed play, Any Means Necessary, which she is developing with Wellington Films & Creative England, and an original, Southern Pacific. She is also collaborating with director, Rene Pannevis, on a film for the BFI’s Microwave scheme.
Kefi was on Creative England's iwrite scheme 2105/16 where she won the writer's award. She was recently selected to be part of Raising Film's Closr mentoring scheme for parents working in the film industry.
Her first shorts include, Girlpower, which won Best Comedy Short at Aesthetica Film Festival 2014 and SexLife, which has been screened at 15 Oscar and BAFTA accredited festivals, including Tribeca in the USA and Encounters in the UK. Kefi is now developing it as a TV series, with director Stefan Georgiou.
As a playwright, she has worked with Theatre 503, Latitude Festival, the Royal Court Young Writers’ Programme, Paines Plough, The Arcola, The Brighton Dome, Sprint at Camden People's Theatre, and most recently Nottingham Playhouse.
Videos
CV
TV
Writer & Creator
New comedy, commissioned by Channel 4.
Original idea about a group of financially struggling students turned criminals.
Original drama idea in development.
Writer
Popular drama series set in a close-knit Glasgow community.
Film
Writer & Creator
An adaptation of Kefi's acclaimed play with mentorship on the screenplay from Rebecca Lenkiewicz.
Based on Kefi's critically acclaimed play, SexLife is the story of Dan's ham-fisted attempts to get ‘new’ mother Mia into bed with hilarious, emotional and musical consequences.
A new short set in 1997, during a time of Britpop and Tony Blair, following Cass, a new graduate who wants nothing more than to be part of this exciting new Britain.
Writer
Associate writer on a new project, working with young people to explore what it is like to turn 18 in 2018. Shorts from the project to be developed into a feature.
Co-Writer
A new visceral crime story.
Theatre
Writer
An original play about an undercover police officer infiltrating a protest group.
Interactive play about sex and intimacy. Funded by the Arts Council
An original play as part of the Paines Plough series about the writers' hometown.
What happens when love doesn't add up? Dr Paul MacMillan is a professor of Chaos Theory whose own life is thrown into chaos when his father dies.
Two works featured as part of a collection of plays about sex and relationships.
Play about a young man struggling to overcome his rare medical condition.
Multi-discipline public art theatre installation in Basingstoke and Southampton
A play about the dangerous nature of female friendship, obsession and violence.