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About me

I'm a freelance script reader and editor, copy editor and proofreader, as well as a professional actress and business role player. I've been a drama professional for over twenty years and worked in a more literary capacity for fifteen. I'm a native English speaker, English Literature graduate (BA Hons 2:1) and have a high command of both written and spoken language.
I love helping writers to develop their scripts and have a core of regulars that I've worked with over several years. I'm their first port of call for early-draft feedback, before returning later versions for full edits and re-works in preparation for production. As an editor, I am more experienced with stage scripts, but as a reader, compiling feedback reports for production companies, I have worked across film, TV and stage. Previous employers include BBC (Writersoom and Serials), The Old Vic theatre, Momentum Pictures and Impact Pictures. Reading and editing scripts involves a high degree of analysis, but also the ability to synthesise that into constructive, comprehensive feedback that is useful to writers, producers or commissioning editors.
More recently, I qualified as a QLS Level 4 Copy Editor and Proofreader, and I'm currently a Senior Copy Editor for Central Bylines online news network. I turn news articles around to tight deadlines, focusing on streamlining the copy to improve readability, correcting all grammar, punctuation and spelling errors, as well as improving Search Engine Optimisation. As the journalism is all citizen-led, I deal with a huge breadth of material and quickly become expert in some unusual topics!
I have copywriting experience too - I used to write online area guides or Location, Location, Location, wrote a couple of full sites for Channel 4 online and was an occasional contributor to BBC Bitesize - so I'm competent with re-writing sections of copy, where necessary.
You can read more about the way I work and read writer testimonials on my w

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AvailabilityLooking for work

ContractPerm, Freelance, Temp-Perm, Part time, Remote

LocationLondon, United Kingdom

Skill LevelJunior, Middleweight

LanguagesEnglish, French

Tagged Job TitlesScript Editor, Copy Editor, Proofreader

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Acting, Copywriting, Editing, Proof Reading, Public Speaking

Sector Experience

Arts, Cinema, Film (Feature), Film (Short / Documentary), Newspapers, Radio, Theatre

Clients

BBC, Bylines News Network, Impact Pictures, Momentum Pictures, Old Vic Theatre

Trade Associations

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