Hi there! We're the 2025 Goldsmiths MA Scriptwriting cohort, and we need your help to raise funds for our final grad show in October.

The grad show is an opportunity for us to showcase our hard work from the past year to family, friends, and industry professionals. It will consist of a series of table reads of excerpts from the scripts we have been working on for the past year. It will be a fantastic occasion to not only celebrate our accomplishments but also give the industry its first taste of what this talented cohort has to offer.

All contributions, big or small, are greatly appreciated and will help support the next generation of scriptwriters!

Your generous donation will go towards expenses such as:

Please note that any funds raised in excess will be donated to our kind sponsor, the Rosie Roebuck Performing Arts Foundation, which helps children and young adults who love the performing arts but may not have the resources to get the tuition they need.

Meet The Writers:

Ollie Baines:

Though I have always loved the art of film, it wasn’t until I took a screenwriting module during my undergraduate degree in Exeter, that I discovered my passion for this craft in particular. Throughout my master’s at Goldsmiths I have been writing and developing a feature film titled: The Ghost Between Us, a supernatural romantic drama…

The film follows Cat, a Latin-American portrait artist living in London. In the wake of a life-altering break up, she embarks on an artists’ retreat at Lochfield House in Scotland. Not long after she arrives, Cat encounters Lily, a mysterious and alluring ghost who haunts the grounds. An unexpected romance quickly ignites between the pair, forcing Cat to choose between emotional independence, and eternal love.

Darcy Berger:

Darcy Berger is a London-born writer whose years on market stalls honed an eye for character and the theatre of everyday life. Drawn to darkly comic stories about outsiders, grace, and survival in modern Britain, Darcy’s scripts blend satire and empathy with a fascination for the spectacle of contemporary culture. Their latest short film, Marlboro Man—which reimagines the cowboy as a broken-down old man with a mobility scooter, facing violence and loss on the concrete frontiers of South London—is currently in production and aiming for the festival circuit.

Darcy’s TV pilot, House of God (featured in the MA Screenwriting graduate show), follows a disgraced producer’s last-ditch gamble: placing a group of religious figures—such as a priest, an imam, a rabbi, and a Buddhist monk—together in a luxury mansion wired for reality TV, where each week they face outrageous spiritual challenges, from parting a paddling pool like Moses to building the perfect temple out of flat-pack IKEA furniture. As they compete for the title of ‘The Chosen One’ under the world’s gaze, the show tests not only faith, but how far we’ll go to watch—and to be redeemed.

James Booth:

James Booth is a screenwriter originally from Brighton, specializing in a variety of comedy subgenres including action comedy, dark comedy, and romantic comedy. Known for crafting witty, misanthropic characters whose lives unravel—and then reform—his work blends whip sharp dialogue with emotional undercurrents.

James has placed in several prestigious screenwriting competitions, including ScreenCraft, and was most recently a semi-finalist in the WeScreenplay TV Pilot competition. His passion for storytelling comes from his father, who was a poet and portrait artist.

Salinne Freer Passburg:

Salinne Freer Passburg is a writer, filmmaker, and journalist. Through her time working on both student and professional film productions, she has done everything from location marshalling to assistant directing. She is also a contributing writer for independent music magazines CHUNES and The Indie Scene.

Inspired by her experiences growing up multinationally, Salinne’s writing employs genre to explore themes of identity, community, and socio-political issues. Her first horror feature, Petrified, reinterprets the myth of Medusa in a modern setting to explore issues of consent prevalent amongst university students. The deeply personal story aims to tackle coercion and the impacts of sexual violence on the queer community.

Nova Gaitskell-Kendrick:

Nova is a fresh comedy writer completing an MA in Scriptwriting at Goldsmiths. Over the past year she has collaborated with up and coming creatives on two short films: The Room Untouched and From A Distance. In a time of increasing division, she is dedicated to crafting stories that explore connection, with a focus on women, queer and young people.

Aly Hutchinson:

Aly Hutchinson is a screenwriter and poet whose work explores the complexities of love, connection, and the emotional ties that bind us, often in unexpected ways. Her stories are driven by character and grounded in the nuance of human relationships, whether between friends, family, or near strangers.

Her most recent project, Ben, is a character-driven family drama and road movie spanning three generations of men. At its heart is a 23-year-old single dad, trying to raising his son while still growing up himself. The film offers a tender and gently comedic portrait of fatherhood, exploring the messy, meaningful ways we try to care for each other, especially when we don’t have all the answers.

Caia Lee:

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Caia Lee is a screenwriter currently pursuing an MA in Script Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London. With a background in graphic design and shaping LA’s underground music scene through DIY events and raves, her creative practice spans visual, literary, and sonic worlds. Her current works in progress include a TV mystery series set in early 2000s LA and a Southern Gothic Horror feature rooted in her family’s East Texas heritage. She holds BA degrees in French Comparative Literature and Film from UCLA

Molly Moore:

Molly Moore is a 23-year-old woman from the North West of England. Molly is naturally drawn to gothic fiction, horror and psychological thrillers, but her writing ranges from dark to comedic, centring on women’s voices and experiences.

Molly’s feature film “Yacht Money” focuses on a young woman struggling to get a foothold in the exploitative and cutthroat modelling industry. To capitalise on her beauty and take control of her spiralling circumstances, she turns to yachting, ultimately becoming a prop in the sadistic fantasies of the billionaire owner of the yacht.

Grace Morrison:

Grace is a Writer, Actor, and DJ based in London. She was selected for the Rianne Pictures Development Programme in 2024 and as part of the 2025 BFI backed Shorties Collective Development Cohort, where she’s now developing her first romantic comedy feature. Her micro play TUB was shortlisted in the Top 20 of the National Young Writers' Competition 2025. Her short film version of Clangers is in development with BAFTA winning director Colin O’Toole, drawing from her experiences as a DJ in the UK club scene. Alongside her writing, Grace recently appeared in the original play UPBEAT at Southwark Playhouse and DJs across the UK, with sets at Fabric, The Cause, and an upcoming Boiler Room debut.

Jessica Pritchard:

Jessica Pritchard is a writer and director based in south east London. Her work focuses on social realism, exploring themes of personal identity, community and family. Through her introspective style of writing, she likes to shine light on the strength of individuality, and uses her platform to raise awareness of the importance of the arts for young people.

Our Three Faces explores the life of repressed housewife Pauline, who finds new life when free-spirited jazz musician Sage moves in next door. Pauline is forced to confront the fact that to get what she wants, she has to risk everything she already has. Our Three Faces champions people who have been running their whole lives from the things that scare them, but find freedom in the most unexpected places

Evie Roebuck:

Evie Roebuck was raised in a tiny nowhere village near Guildford, Surrey. After a brief stint wanting to be a vet was ended with a swift knock to the head after she fainted at the sight of blood, she pivoted to a BA in English Literature with Creative Writing at UEA and later to screenwriting. Evie’s writing blends dark comedy with fantasy, horror, and sci fi. She’s currently co-writing a horror short about teen tech addiction and wrote a Future Shock comic for 2000AD featured in prog 2446. Her feature film Life in Death is a fantastical dark comedy about a man who must work with Death to confront his fears and restore his soul after it becomes untethered from his body

Leaf Wang:

Leaf is a screenwriter and narrative designer working across TV, games, and audio. With a background in history, she approaches sci-fi through the lens of alternate timelines and political memory. Her stories often explore identity, power, and the fragile line between humans and machines.

Originally from China and now based in London, she’s currently developing Sex Robot as both a dystopian TV series and a narrative RPG.

Pip Wooley:

Pip Woolley an award winning writer & director based in London. He is the author of Pickers, a coming of age drama set in the sweaty, sweltering and seductive world of cherry picking in the Okanagan Valley, Canada. The script explores timeless themes of love, friendship, and family, while also investigating contemporary issues surrouding race, class, and masculinity, and is based of Pip's real life experiences working as a cherry picker in the summer of 2023.

His past credits include the Czech language shorts Trophy Kid and Blood Knots, the festival selected short film Invasion and the award winning shorts Goldfish and Benches. Goldfish premiered on Girls In Film and won the Best Film award at Film Buzz Festival London and the Best Comedy award at the Jane Austen International Film Festival. His earlier project Benches won the Best Low Budget TV Pilot award at the Best Indie Film Festival.

Alongside his narrative work, Pip has directed multiple music videos across disparate genres for the contemporary artists Abers, Harvs Le Toad and Joshua Gualtieri. He graduated from the Prague Film School in 2024 as one of only two students in his class with honours. Alongside studying for a Masters in scriptwriting at Goldsmiths, Pip currently has an independent short film in development and is collaborating on a script for an animated short with London-based director James Pike Watson.