Alan Devey is a Screenwriter and Script Reader based in London. His scripts have placed, been finalists or runner up in numerous prestigious screenwriting competitions. He helps to run the London Comedy Writers group and writes their fortnightly newsletter on Substack. He holds a Masters in Creative Writing (including Screenwriting) from the London Metropolitan University. His podcasts include the Bureau of Lost Things sitcom and Mail Bonding.
Unique traits: From a working class background.
Flaming Barrels of Love Budget: $1M - $5M | Romance ⋄ Comedy Our hero returns to his home town of Ottery St Mary in Devon for the annual barrel burning festival with his fiancĂ© in tow but the weekend is complicated by the appearance of an old flame, slapstick adventures among immature friends and life-changing realisations, all set against the danger of those flaming tar barrels.
Disaster Bastards Budget: $1M - $5M | Crime ⋄ Comedy A group of disaster capitalists, including a family-oriented businessman, a cabinet minister and his wife, a gay arms dealer and a single mother who manages a luxury hotel, combine to profit from planet-wide catastrophe, even as a young journalist and her friends work to expose their nefarious schemes.
Work Do Budget: $0 - $100K | Independent ⋄ Comedy Work Do is an office-based sitcom where we never see the office; instead each episode takes place at a different team away day, all intended to build harmony and cooperation but which actually have the opposite effect.
If You Go Down To The Woods Today Budget: $1M - $5M | Horror ⋄ Comedy Three hapless activists on the run hide out at a woodland research project investigating how fungal networks can help humanity survive the environmental apocalypse, but they soon discover this camp has a more nefarious purpose.
Passive Aggressive Budget: $100K - $1M | Thriller ⋄ Crime Following a diamond deal double-cross and a subsequent brutal attack, an ordinary family man is taken hostage and forced to accompany a career criminal on the run amid the corruption and violence of London's criminal underworld.
The Gallant Gals Budget: $100K - $1M | Historical ⋄ Comedy In 1930s England four strong-willed sisters must cope with their eccentric aristocratic relatives, unwanted attention from hapless suitors and lingering Victorian attitudes as they try to forge varying paths through a rapidly changing world.