Darren is an award winning writer and director, who trained at Rose Bruford College and has written for film, television, radio and theatre. Companies he has worked for include the BBC, National Youth Theatre, The Royal Albert Hall, Greenwich and Lewisham Young People’s Theatre, The London Bubble and the Half Moon. He has written and directed... Read More

Darren is an award winning writer and director, who trained at Rose Bruford College and has written for film, television, radio and theatre. Companies he has worked for include the BBC, National Youth Theatre, The Royal Albert Hall, Greenwich and Lewisham Young People’s Theatre, The London Bubble and the Half Moon. He has written and directed five short films, has written on Doctors and EastEnders for BBC1 and was a writer on the BBC Asian Network radio soap Silver Street. In 2010 he visited India with Sci-Fi London to run writing workshops in colleges in Mumbai and Ahmadabad on writing Science-Fiction films. Darren has taught screenwriting for the British Film Institute, Bell House and other organisations. He has taught filmmaking for young people and currently teaches Film and TV at Rose Bruford College and is a visiting lecturer on the MA writing course at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. He is the writer on two feature films currently in production - Never Had a Chance, set in the Punjabi community in Hounslow, is in post-production and his thriller The Harvest is in pre-production. His website is www.darrenrapier.co.uk or www.spannerintheworks.org.uk or www.tualen.com Read Less