JOE MURTAGH

LONDON-BORN IRISH WRITER MURTAGH’S FIRST FEATURE, CALM WITH HORSES, landed several Bafta nominations following its release in 2019, including one for Outstanding British Film. For TV, Murtagh has written on sci-fi series Origin and gangster drama Gangs of London. Now he is the creator and writer of BBC and Showtime drama The Woman in the Wall, a gothic thriller starring Ruth Wilson and Daryl McCormack. Wilson plays Lorna Brady, a woman from the fictional town of Kilkinure, who wakes up to find a corpse in her house. A chronic sleepwalker, she isn’t sure who the dead woman is or if she is somewhat responsible for her demise – and her luck deserts her further when ambitious detective Colman Akande (McCormack) gets on her tail for a seemingly unrelated crime.

NORWEGIAN SCREENWRITER KARLSEN’S CREDITS INCLUDE DAG, ONE NIGHT AND EXIT, the series that took Norway by storm with its depiction of extravagant lives of male bankers who spend their earnings on wild parties, drugs and prostitutes. Øystein also created BritBox drama Whitstable Pearl, which is produced by Buccaneer Media, and is now working with the same firm on So Long, Marianne. The eight-parter is based on the extraordinary lives of Marianne Ihlen and Leonard Cohen – two lonely people who fall in love in a period of their lives when they are trying to figure out who they are and where their place in the world is, set against the backdrops of Oslo, London, New York, Montreal and the Greek island of Hydra.