Desi Lyon

WRITING FOR FILM, TV AND RADIO.
Semi finalist in BLUECAT screenplay competition 2019 for TV pilot ‘Lessons’ and winner of third place in EUROSCRIPT Screen Story competition 2019 for family feature Talking To My Elf which is currently in development with a London production company.
Selected for Talent Campus 5 in 2019 by the organisers of the London Screenwriter’s Festival.

Rather than murder or battles on an international /intergalactic scale, my stories examine the work, family and relationship battles we all face. I love painful or awkward, life changing moments but never write ‘misery porn.’ I write with with affection and dark humour about love and hope and how, even in the worst of times, we can surprise ourselves. As a first generation immigrant, I have a particular view of Britishness and our love/hate relationship with politeness, class and embarrassment.

'Talking to my Elf' is a 45 minute radio comedy drama about a feisty octogenarian, trapped by her mutinous body and her needy family who has had enough of the suffocating rules of polite society.

The feature film of the same story is in development.

'Lessons' is 6 x 60 TV series of wry, dark, one-off vignettes each focusing on a different character connected to a female teacher at a boys’ grammar school as she faces investigation for a sexual scandal.

'Quiz Night' is a radio comedy series about friends at a pub quiz where the important questions are tackled between the rounds.

Children’s books: ‘Farty Mole’ and ‘The Spring Peeper’.