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DAF JAMES DAF ANDREA GIBB
SCOTTISH SCREENWRITER







GIBB WAS BEHIND THE AWARDWINNING FEATURE-LENGTH DRAMA ELIZABETH IS MISSING, which is based on the novel by Emma Healey and tells the story of an 80-year-old woman battling dementia while trying to solve the mystery behind her missing friend. She is now handling another adaptation, this time turning Andrew O’Hagan’s acclaimed novel Mayflies into a two-part BBC drama. Starring Martin Compston, Tony Curran and Ashley Jensen, the story follows the relationship between two friends that ignites over summer in 1986 and a request 30 years later that will push their friendship, love and loyalty to the limit.
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MORGAN IS A BAFTA- AND EMMYWINNING SCREENWRITER KNOWN FOR THE SPLIT IRON LADY will be her most personal yet. She is adapting her own memoir, This is Not a Pity Memoir, after producer Sister picked up rights. Described as poignant and heartbreaking but unsentimental, it follows how Morgan’s life changed tragically after she returned home one morning to years had collapsed on the bathroom floor. Morgan is also the creator of Eric, a Net young boy who goes missing in 1980s Manhattan.