Writing Tips, Truths & Lessons Learned, From Top Writers’ Unproduced Work.
Novelists, screenwriters, authors, playwrights, journalists, writer-performers, columnists, poets…
Every writer has a virtual bottom drawer where they keep the bits of writing they never finished, had rejected or can’t quite find a home for – the unfinished novel, the cut scene, the rejected script, sometimes even the childhood essay…
In each episode of The Offcuts Drawer actors perform these pieces and the writer talks to host Laura Shavin about the story behind them, sharing the often surprising twists and turns of their career that led them to where they are today.
More details about the writers, the offcuts and the actors performing them plus full episode transcripts at
offcutsdrawer.com
TV, film and radio comedy writer Dan Maier reveals a cornucopia of different formats for his offcuts that include a radio sketch written for a famous double act, a children’s science fiction trilogy and a Victorian blog entry.
CAST: Chris Pavlo, Jake Yapp, Helen Goldwyn, Nigel Pilkington and Emma Clarke
Dan Maier is a television and radio writer with a career spanning satire, sitcoms, sketch, film, gameshow and comedy formats. He began writing for Have I Got News For You in the early 1990s and has contributed to television shows including Not Going Out, The Armstrong and Miller Show, 8 Out of 10 Cats, and Harry Hill’s TV Burp where he was part of the core writing team across 11 seasons and associated series’s.
He collaborations with Charlie Brooker include writing on the various Wipe formats and co-writing the Sky1 spoof A Touch of Cloth. For Channel 4 he created and wrote the gameshow Quizness, and created and wrote the comedy series The Function Room.
In films he’s written on Sasha Baron Cohen’s “The Brothers Grimsby” and The Harry Hill Movie.
For BBC Radio he’s written on multiple sketch and satire shows, he had 2 series of his own surreal comedy Life on Egg and co-created and co-wrote the comedy-drama Trapped with his brother Mark.
For more details about the writer, the offcuts and the actors performing them see the episode show notes: offcutsdrawer.com/dan-maier
