Janice Hally
- Writer
- Script and Continuity Department
Janice Hally began writing drama and plays while still at school. At 18
she was accepted on the first Scottish Youth Theatre's Young
Playwright's Workshop before attending Glasgow University to study
Drama and English. The year she graduated with a Master of Arts she won
the ISPC international playwriting award, and her play "Ready or Not"
was professionally produced. The play caused controversy, being first
banned in Edinburgh, before transferring to the Tron Theatre in
Glasgow. After successful run in Glasgow it was adapted and produced
for television and at the age of 23, Hally was nominated as Best New
Writer to Television in the British PYE Television Awards. In the
following 15 years she became one of Scotland's most prolific
television writers, with more than 650 credits for drama series, single
screenplays and children's drama. Her work includes some of the most
highly-rated and innovative drama in her homeland. She and Peter May
co-created the ground-breaking Gaelic drama serial Machair and Hally
wrote the scene-by-scene breakdowns for its epic 99-episode story arc,
as well as writing most of the scripts. As a result of her work on
Machair, she was shortlisted by the Writer's Guild of Great Britain for
their Best Non-English Language Award.