playwriting, screenwriting and other scriptwriting work by Jo Gatford
My historical TV drama pilot, Free Traders, placed in the top 1.8% of the BBC Writers Open Call 2025 (out of nearly 6,000 scripts) and has been shortlisted for the BBC Voices programme — TBA in October 2025.
My historical TV drama pilot, Free Traders, was a finalist in the Best Script Award London, January 2025
My short script, Chasm, won 2nd place overall in the final round of the NYC Midnight Screenwriting Contest in August 2024.
In the second round, my short script, Over the Wall, placed 4th.
And in the first round, my short script, Autonomy, placed 1st.
My historical TV drama pilot, Free Traders, was a finalist in the spring 2024 Cambridge Script Festival.
In 2023 I was awarded a CenterFrame development fund to complete my historical TV drama pilot, Free Traders.
In 2018, my short play Flying Ant Day, was one of five winners of the Voices From Home contest and produced at The Old Red Lion Theatre in London.