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Colette Kane

Writer

Represented by:

Alec Drysdale

Colette has been writing theatre for over ten years and has worked with companies, Paines Plough, Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse, Hampstead Theatre, London and Theatre Clwyd. She broke into screenwriting in 2012 when she was commissioned to write an episode of Jimmy McGovern’s Moving On for BBC ONE. She went on to write three more episodes of Moving On and was part of the team behind McGovern’s BBC series Broken, co-writing an episode. Colette was the lead writer on series two of Temple.

Colette is currently working with Left Bank Pictures on Netflix’s new crime thriller, Department Q, with Scott Frank directing. She is also developing an TV adaptation of BBC Scotland’s hit podcast, The Missing Madonna, as well as adapting Colwill Brown’s debut novel, We Pretty Pieces of Flesh for The Lighthouse, and a true crime novel for West Road Pictures.

Colette is based in Liverpool.

Credits

TELEVISION
Date: 2023
Production (role):
VERA SEASON 12
Company:
ITV
Project details:
Episode 4 - Writer
Date: 2021
Production (role):
SWORN VIRGIN
Company:
Leftbank/Netflix
Project details:
Developing and writing multiple episodes.
Date: 2019-20
Production (role):
TEMPLE SERIES 2
Company:
Hera Pictures
Project details:
Writing multiple episodes.
Date: 2019-20
Production (role):
BRYSON
Company:
Raw
Project details:
Original pilot in development with C4
Date: 2019-20
Production (role):
VERA
Company:
ITV
Project details:
2x120 episodes
Date: 2017
Production (role):
HIRAETH
Company:
Two Halves Pictures
Project details:
Pilot script commission
Prod: Gina Cronk
Date: 2017
Production (role):
INDIAN DETECTIVE
Company:
Big Light / CTV
Project details:
1 episode
Starring Russell Peters
Prod: Frank Spotnitz and Sharon Remmer
Date: 2017
Production (role):
BROKEN
Company:
LA Productions / BBC1
Project details:
1 episode
Starring Sean Bean
Created by Jimmy McGovern
Date: 2016
Production (role):
MENTAL GIRLS
Company:
Bandit Television
Project details:
Original treatment commission
Date: 2014
Production (role):
MOVING ON
Company:
LA Productions / BBC (Series 7)
Project details:
1 episode commissioned
Date: 2014
Production (role):
MOVING ON
Company:
LA Productions / BBC (Series 6)
Project details:
1 episode commissioned
Date: 2013
Production (role):
MOVING ON
Company:
LA Productions / BBC (Series 5)
Project details:
1 episode
THEATRE
Date: 2017
Production (role):
SCARLETT
Company:
Hampstead Theatre / Theatre Clwyd
Project details:
Dir: Mel Hillyard

Date: 2014
Production (role):
UNTITLED HAMPSTEAD COMMISION
Company:
Hampstead Theatre
Date: 2013
Production (role):
I KNOW HOW I FEEL ABOUT EVE
Company:
Hampstead Theatre
Production (role):
HATCH
Company:
24:7 Theatre Festival / Bolton Octagon
Project details:
Play
Production (role):
WAYS TO LOOK AT FISH
Company:
24:7 Theatre Festival / Theatre 503 / Manchester’s Library Theatre
AWARDS
Date: 2014
Production (role):
Arts Foundation Award for Playwriting
Project details:
Runner up
Date: 2013
Production (role):
Royal Literary Fund
Project details:
Receipient of the JB Priestly Award
IN DEVELOPMENT
Date: 2022/23
Production (role):
THE LOSS ADJUSTERS
Company:
Warp Films / BBC
Project details:
Original drama series
Date: 2022/23
Production (role):
MY LIFE IN ORANGE
Company:
Third Party Pictures
Project details:
Based on a Tim Guest book.
Date: 2022/23
Production (role):
THE RELUCTANT POLITICIAN
Company:
Build Your Own Pictures / BBC
Date: 2022
Production (role):
THE DAY
Company:
BBC Studios
Project details:
TV series adaptation of the Belgium crime thriller series De Dag.
Date: 2022
Production (role):
THE STONES
Company:
Left Bank Pictures
Project details:
Original drama series.

Credits

  • Date
    Production (role)
    Company
    Project details
  • Date: 2023
    Production (role): VERA SEASON 12
    Company: ITV
    Project details: Episode 4 - Writer
  • Date: 2021
    Production (role): SWORN VIRGIN
    Company: Leftbank/Netflix
    Project details: Developing and writing multiple episodes.
  • Date: 2019-20
    Production (role): TEMPLE SERIES 2
    Company: Hera Pictures
    Project details: Writing multiple episodes.
  • Date: 2019-20
    Production (role): BRYSON
    Company: Raw
    Project details: Original pilot in development with C4
  • Date: 2019-20
    Production (role): VERA
    Company: ITV
    Project details: 2x120 episodes
  • Date: 2017
    Production (role): HIRAETH
    Company: Two Halves Pictures
    Project details: Pilot script commission
    Prod: Gina Cronk
  • Date: 2017
    Production (role): INDIAN DETECTIVE
    Company: Big Light / CTV
    Project details: 1 episode
    Starring Russell Peters
    Prod: Frank Spotnitz and Sharon Remmer
  • Date: 2017
    Production (role): BROKEN
    Company: LA Productions / BBC1
    Project details: 1 episode
    Starring Sean Bean
    Created by Jimmy McGovern
  • Date: 2016
    Production (role): MENTAL GIRLS
    Company: Bandit Television
    Project details: Original treatment commission
  • Date: 2014
    Production (role): MOVING ON
    Company: LA Productions / BBC (Series 7)
    Project details: 1 episode commissioned
  • Date: 2014
    Production (role): MOVING ON
    Company: LA Productions / BBC (Series 6)
    Project details: 1 episode commissioned
  • Date: 2013
    Production (role): MOVING ON
    Company: LA Productions / BBC (Series 5)
    Project details: 1 episode
  • Date
    Production (role)
    Company
    Project details
  • Date: 2017
    Production (role): SCARLETT
    Company: Hampstead Theatre / Theatre Clwyd
    Project details: Dir: Mel Hillyard

  • Date: 2014
    Production (role): UNTITLED HAMPSTEAD COMMISION
    Company: Hampstead Theatre
    Project details:
  • Date: 2013
    Production (role): I KNOW HOW I FEEL ABOUT EVE
    Company: Hampstead Theatre
    Project details:
  • Date:
    Production (role): HATCH
    Company: 24:7 Theatre Festival / Bolton Octagon
    Project details: Play
  • Date:
    Production (role): WAYS TO LOOK AT FISH
    Company: 24:7 Theatre Festival / Theatre 503 / Manchester’s Library Theatre
    Project details:
  • Date
    Production (role)
    Project details
  • Date: 2014
    Production (role): Arts Foundation Award for Playwriting
    Project details: Runner up
  • Date: 2013
    Production (role): Royal Literary Fund
    Project details: Receipient of the JB Priestly Award
  • Date
    Production (role)
    Company
    Project details
  • Date: 2022/23
    Production (role): THE LOSS ADJUSTERS
    Company: Warp Films / BBC
    Project details: Original drama series
  • Date: 2022/23
    Production (role): MY LIFE IN ORANGE
    Company: Third Party Pictures
    Project details: Based on a Tim Guest book.
  • Date: 2022/23
    Production (role): THE RELUCTANT POLITICIAN
    Company: Build Your Own Pictures / BBC
    Project details:
  • Date: 2022
    Production (role): THE DAY
    Company: BBC Studios
    Project details: TV series adaptation of the Belgium crime thriller series De Dag.
  • Date: 2022
    Production (role): THE STONES
    Company: Left Bank Pictures
    Project details: Original drama series.
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