Rose Heiney

Novelist and writer for theatre, film and television

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Biography

Rose Heiney is a screenwriter and novelist who won a 4Talent Award for Best New Comedy Writer in 2008 and was a Broadcast Hotshot in 2009. 

Her first novel, The Days of Judy B was nominated for The Times/South Bank Show Breakthrough Award.  

Subsequently, Rose has developed original comedy projects with Objective Productions and the BBC as well as writing on shows such as Miranda and Fresh Meat. Rose is currently writing an original comedy feature for Studio Canal and Working Title.

Rose has written regularly for radio, her first radio play Home Alone transmitted in spring 2013 starring Daisy Haggard. Her play Original Death Rabbit was broadcast in 2016 starring Jessie Cave. 

Rose also writes for theatre and her first full-length play Elephants had a sold out run at the Hampstead Theatre in December 2014.

CV

Featured Works

From A to Z

Elephants

Fresh Meat

Writer

Film

Writer

The Ghost Writer
Feature Film
 
Working Title
In Development
 
Posterity
Feature Film
 

In Development
 

TV

Writer

Happy Players
 

Treatment 

King Bert
In Development
 
Big Bad World
2 x 30'
Producer Ben Farrell
Starring
  • David Fynn
  • Rebecca Humphries
    •  
    Comedy about a group of friends after university
    Objective Productions for Comedy Central
     
    Fresh Meat
    1 x 45'
    Creator Jesse Armstrong & Sam Bain
    Producer Judy Counihan
    Starring
  • Zawe Ashton
  • Greg McHugh
  • Kimberley Nixon
  • Joe Thomas
    •  
    Comedy set amongst a group of university freshers
    Objective Productions for Channel 4
     
    Protest
    Pilot for 6 x 30'
    Producer Mark Talbot
     
    New comedy set in the world of anti-capitalist protest
    Hattrick for BBC
    In development
     
    Unhooked
    Pilot for 6 x 30'
    Producer Ben Farrell
     
    Comedy
    Objective Productions for BBC3
    In development
     
    Inescapable
    Pilot for 6 x 30'
     
    Objective Productions
     
    The Days Of Judy B
    Pilot for 6 x 30'
     
    Adaptation of her book into a television series
    Hattrick
     
    Female Peep Show
    Pilot for 6 x 30'
     
    Creating a new female version of the hit comedy series
    Objective Productions
    In development
     
    Thrills
    Pilot for 6 x 30'
     
    Original comedy series about teenagers in London
    Objective Productions
    In development
     

    Performer

    Biffovision (Pilot)
    Mrs Jean Peans 
    Director Richard Boden
     
    Hartswood Films for BBC3
     
    Summerhill
    Emma 
    Director Jon East
     
    Tiger Aspect
     
    Miss Marple
    Gladys 
    Director Charlie Palmer
     
    Granada
     
    Lewis
    Rosamund 
    Director Dan Reed
     
    ITV
     

    Theatre

    Writer

    Elephants
    Director Tamara Harvey
    Starring
  • Jonathan Guy Lewis
  • Imogen Stubbs
  • Antonia Thomas
  • Bel Powley
    •  

    A dark family comedy set on Christmas Eve

    Hampstead Theatre
     
    Come to Where I'm From
    Producer Paines Plough
    Starring
  •  
    Short play commissioned by Paines Plough about Rose's home town, Chipping Norton
    The Theatre, Chipping Norton
     

    Performer

    So You Think You're Funny?
    Finalist
     
    Gilded Ballon, Edinburgh/Channel 4
     
    Top Girls
    Angie/Gret 
    Director Olivia Hungerford
     
    Old Fire Station, Oxford
     
    Assassins
    Sara Jane Moore 
    Director Laura Corcoran
     
    Old Fire Station, Oxford
     
    What The Butler Saw
    Mrs Prentice 
    Director Harry Lloyd
     
    Old Fire Station, Oxford
     
    The Oxford Revue vs Cambridge Footlights
    Various 
    Director Ed Behrens
     
    Oxford Playhouse
     
    The Comedy of Errors
    Emilia/Nell 
     
    OUDS/Thelma Holt Ltd/Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space
     
    Orestes
    Electra 
    Director Pippa Needs
     
    Oxford Playhouse
     
    Into the Woods
    The Witch 
    Director Tom Littler
     
    Oxford Playhouse
     
    Bite Me
    Fen 
    Director Polly Findlay
     
    Underbelly, Edinburgh Festival
     

    Radio

    Writer

    Original Death Rabbit
    2015
    Starring
  • Jessie Cave
    •  
    Production Company BBC Radio
     
    From Fact to Fiction
    2015
     

    Award winning comedy writer Rose Heiney creates a fictional response to the week's news.

    Production Company BBC Radio
    Broadcaster BBC Radio 4
     
    From A to Z
    1 x 45'
    2014
    Director Helen Perry
    Starring
  • Claire Cage
  • Alex Carter
  • Sabrina Jones
  • Alun Raglan
    •  

    Drama following a couple who try to revitalise their relationship with A to Z themed dates.

    Production Company BBC Productions
    Broadcaster BBC Radio 4
     
    Home Alone
    2013
    Director Helen Perry
    Starring
  • Ben Crowe
  • Daisy Haggard
  • Michael Shelford
  • Phillipa Stanton
    •  
    Radio play about a hostess struggling to cook the perfect New Year's Eve dinner, part of the Radio 4 Absolutely Delish strand
    Production Company BBC Productions
    Broadcaster Radio 4
     

    Performer

    BBC New Comedy Awards
    2010
     
    Production Company BBC7/Radio 4
     
    The Milk Run
    2010
    Various 
    Director Victoria Lloyd
     
    Production Company BBC Radio 1