Lee Daniel
SCREENWRITER
TV & Film
Hello and Welcome!
I love rich story worlds and writing meaty 'state of the nation' scripts - that peer at the world through a fractured family lens. My characters are ordinary extraordinaries. Gallus, brave and sometimes broken. I like to shine a light into dark places and infuse bleak narratives with hope, humour and universal truths.
2021: I got cancer and started writing my heart out.
2022: MAGGIE script - placed 26% - BBC Academy.
2023: SHE TOWN script - placed 1% - BBC Open Call.
2024: BBC VOICES (South) Mentorship programme.
TELLING THE STORY:
How I find my way home.
SHORT FILMS:
How I have fun and play.
Lee hails from Harlesden, London, and has Scottish roots. Growing up her family life was chaotic which resulted in her being expelled from school and leaving home aged sixteen.
As a mature student, she attended UCL to study visual arts before setting up her own dance business. Lee has a long-term health condition/ disability that led to her discovery of screenwriting.
She has since studied Advanced Stroy Structure with John Yorke and filmmaking with Julian Kerrige at Brighton Screen and Film School.
Lee identifies as a disabled and working-class writer.
Name, Title
All Videos
All Videos
Jackson's Cat - (Proof of Concept)
QUIET SCREAM
WE WIL MEET AGAIN
Big Title
John Yorke
Author, script editor and television producer
“Strong world building here. It's evident how much you care as a writer about your fictional world."
Shirley Day
Author, filmmaker, screenwriter and lecturer
The Literacy Consultancy
"I loved the descriptive and emotional way that you've written that first scene."
Piers Clifton
television producer
and scriptwriter/ lecturer
“Your setting is fascinating and very colourful.
You've certainly not been afraid to go your own way and to explore some challenging, tough areas”