Hullo, and welcome to Piers Beckley's website.
Piers is a full member of The Writers' Guild of Great Britain, was shortlisted for the BBC Drama Writers Academy 2007, and was a delegate on the TAPS Continuing Drama course in 2008.
You can watch his short film, Fatal, online as a QuickTime Movie or on YouTube.
He also directed Politics, a radio play by Katharine Way.
Piers has written video scripts for eHarmony, and created and storylined the ARG for the first season of Spooks. He has also written regularly for The Treason Show and NewsRevue.
His adaptation of A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, was performed in an extended run over Christmas 2008 at the Lion & Unicorn Theatre in London and received a four-star review from Time Out. Find out more.
A new adaptation of Oliver Twist opened on the 30th November 2009 and ran until January 2010.
Performance rights for both Dickens adaptations are now available, and you can purchase the scripts for download.
Piers has recently been crafting the funny for new sketch show Splendid, and is part of the writing team for spooky and strange new drama anthology 0110: Twisted Tales & Glorious
For the latest news, try his blog Between the Pavement and the Stars.
Current spec scripts:
Shadow Team: The Secrets I Keep
Consultants fight evil. Hour drama.
Animals: The Nature of the Beast
Hour drama exploring the lives of an Animal Rescue Team.
Bingo
Feature in which pensioners heist their local Bingo Hall.
Decaying Orbit
Feature Horror - Zombies in space.
Monk: Mr. Monk and the Dominatrix
Semi-Finalist, Spec Scriptacular
Star Trek Enterprise: Under The Skin
Finalist, Spec Scriptacular
The Dead Zone: Acceptable Losses
Semi-Finalist, Carl Sautter