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James Ley

@jamesleyplay

Playwright & screenwriter. “Thrilling” Condé Nast Traveller 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@NationalTheatre Peter Shaffer 2023 Commission awardee rep: @saylescreen

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When you live alone and work from home it is perfectly possible that the only time you speak is to do Martha Scott impressions. This has to stop.

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The brilliant Glasgow Film Festival Industry team are continuing the hard work of helping develop talent in Scotland!

Funny Features is for comedy features so if you've got a draft of a script then please have a lookout this.

And let us recognise Sammy Andie Bennett who makes this happen!

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Sometimes when I’m doing nothing I remember I have to write 3 plays, a musical, 2 features and 2 pilots this year and that this is an average of 1 a month and it would be good if they were all ready by September or 1 every 2 weeks and then I just stare into the abyss again.

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The thing that helps my writing the most is candles. If I’m working on a latter draft of a treatment I might even fork out for quite a high end scented candle to get me thru.

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📖 Join us for a special in conversation event with writers Damian Barr, James Ley & our AD Jackie Wylie on April 30th at the Mitchell Library as part of Aye Write's 2024 pop-up events as they explore the creation of the new stage version of 💥🦸‍♂️

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📖 Join us for a special in conversation event with writers @Damian_Barr, @jamesleyplay & our AD @_jackiewylie on April 30th at the Mitchell Library as part of @AyeWrite's 2024 pop-up events as they explore the creation of the new stage version of #MaggieAndMe 💥🦸‍♂️ BOOK NOW 👇
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Someone just shouted “what are you looking at, Gay Boots?” at me and then crossed the street towards me so I ducked into the cinema to avoid a confrontation, at 8pm in 2024 in Glasgow. That’s why I make queer work and why I won’t stop. Also thank you for noticing my boots.

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MAGGIE & ME POSTER REVEAL

Introducing Gary Lamont as DB! 🦸

Enter DB’s childhood world, from Ravenscraig Steelworks to Carfin Grotto, there’s trauma & triumph, coming of age & coming out. Can DB overcome his past & find his voice? 🌈

📸 Eoin Carey

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MAGGIE & ME POSTER REVEAL Introducing Gary Lamont as DB! 🦸 Enter DB’s childhood world, from Ravenscraig Steelworks to Carfin Grotto, there’s trauma & triumph, coming of age & coming out. Can DB overcome his past & find his voice? 🌈 📸 Eoin Carey FIND OUT MORE 👇
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Important and powerful piece about the west’s complicity with atrocities in Gaza and our “moral collapse” in the face of unimaginable horror. “We find ourselves in an unprecedented situation. Never before have so many witnessed an industrial-scale slaughter in real time.”…

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'The thing that jumped out at me when I read it was the idea of [Damian] as a Roald Dahl character.' I interviewed Damian Barr and James Ley about their stage adaptation of Maggie & Me (can't wait to see it). In the Herald Mag & Arts . heraldscotland.com/news/24132807.…

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