Media Studies at Maynooth is pleased to welcome Lindsay Sedgwick as our Screenwriter in Residence for 2016-2017. A former journalist, Sedgwick is an award-winning screenwriter and playwright with over eight hours’ credits for TV and film work including the animation series, PUNKY, two series of which have sold globally. Current projects include a supernatural feature, TV series, children’s book and a new animation series as creator and writer.
A screenwriting tutor since 1995, Lindsay is a graduate of Moonstone International Screenwriting Labs (2002), was a New York University ‘Gregory Peck Scriptwriting Course’ scholar, (1993) and has an MA Screenwriting from Leeds Metropolitan University (1999). In 2012, she founded the Creatives in Animation Network (CAN) to facilitate collaboration between writers and animators.