Marie Macneill

Senior Lecturer

Initially, Marie worked as an actress after training for three years at the Royal Central School of Speech & Drama. She has appeared in theatre and on TV, radio and film. She was artistic director of the touring theatre company Bedside Manners for 16 years, producing 45 original shows from Scotland to Cornwall, via the West End. Marie has written extensively for theatre (30 plays and musicals produced), film and television. In 1999 she was nominated for the TAPS (Television Arts Performance Showcase) writer of the year award for her Cornish sitcom St Hoggen.

Other television work includes 11 episodes of The Tribe (Cloud 9, Channel 5, and broadcast world-wide) Revelations (Cloud 9, Channel 5); she was commissioned to write two drama series for the BBC and a 12 part drama series for S4C. Marie has been commissioned to write five feature films and has had one feature optioned. In 2010 her low budget supernatural horror, The Dark Side, was selected to be part of the Cross Channel Film Lab development scheme in Brittany and Cornwall. In 2014 she worked on a zombie horror film, The Dead Sea. As a director and/or producer Marie has worked on over 75 shows for a variety of theatre companies and numerous short films. She has worked extensively as a script editor for Cornwall Film; UK Film Council; Kent Hothouse and Screen South; and many individual writers. Marie judges for the Celtic Media Festival, is a BAFTA voter and on the committee for the Royal Television Society (Devon & Cornwall). For many years she was on the Executive Council for the Writers' Guild of Great Britain. She has written two novels - Swimming in the Rain, set in Penwith, and Strawberry Moon, set in Carrick (Falmouth). She was nominated for her short Katbottys (Catgut), directed by Jeremy Williams, Celtic Media Festival 2019. She worked with filmmaker Orson Cornick on To Whom It May Concern; produced award-winning The Day of the Coyote for director Derek Hayes; script editor for Chris Morris' Cornish short - Kestav (Celtic Media Festival award winner). In February 2020, Marie and actor John Macneill's company Mundic Nation toured the one-man theatre play, The Coastguard, which she wrote and directed. In July 2024 she completed The Hag Stone (writer and director) which has inspired the feature-length film script Three Storms. Both projects are part of her ongoing research into En Plein Air writing and Beachcombing For Stories (she presents a paper on this at the Screenwriters Research Network Conference in September 2024). She has recently written the book for a large-scale musical; and is currently working with Sneh Gupta from Jodhpur, Rajasthan on a new film project. Marie presented a paper at Falmouth University's Haunted Landscapes Conference in 2023 which led to working as co-editor with Joanne Ella Parsons on the June 2024 publication 13 Cornish Ghost Stories.

Marie's teaching at Falmouth University has included a number of extra-curricular storytelling and filmmaking projects including Spilling The Beans, where students created, wrote and made a mini-TV series from scratch; The Collaboration - the School of Film and Television working with AMATA actors to make television; My Talking Head - new monologues performed by AMATA actors. Marie has been nominated for Staff/Teaching Excellence Awards four times and has won twice.

External Links

• Mundic Nation
• The Palgrave Handbook of SCript Development
• 13 Cornish Ghost Stories

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