Character-Led Drama About the Turning Points of Working Life
WorkLife Stories for screen explore the turning points of working life, and the people who live through them. They’re stories about work, life and the choices that shape both.
These stories are available for television adaptation, and I’d welcome conversations with producers, development teams and agents who are interested in character-led drama about working life.
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I’m looking for producers and production companies interested in optioning or developing WorkLife Stories for television, and for an agent to represent the screen rights.
If you’d like to read a treatment, please get in touch.
About the Writer
Carmel O’ Reilly is an Irish writer and learning practitioner based in London, and the founder of School of WorkLife, where she creates stories and learning resources about working life. She is the author of WorkLife Book Club Volume One Shoreditch.
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The Screen Plays
Before the Harvest
A three-part drama series, 3 × 60 minutes, in English and French. Adapted from Adele’s WorkLife Story.
A logistics executive on the brink of becoming managing director is called home to Bordeaux, where her family’s vineyard will be sold before the harvest unless she can face the family she left twenty-five years ago, and the father who never listened to her.
Before the Harvest is a warm, character-led family drama for Sunday evening, moving between Birmingham and Bordeaux. Through the notebook in which she writes her stories, Adele sees the past differently each time she retells it, until her father and brother tell stories of their own that she has never heard.
A treatment and draft scripts are available on request.
Beyond the Revolving Door
A three-part drama series, 3 × 60 minutes. Adapted from Luan’s WorkLife Story.
A hotel general manager who rose from night porter over twenty-two years is asked to lead the sale of his London hotel to an investment group, on the evening his wife gives him a novel about a man confined to a grand hotel.
Beyond the Revolving Door is a warm, character-led drama set inside a historic London hotel. As the new owners press him to quietly move long-serving staff onto worse terms, Luan must decide what he can stand behind, and what he and his wife, Drita, have left outside the hotel’s walls.
A treatment and draft scripts are available on request.
Two Stages
A three-part drama series, 3 × 60 minutes. Adapted from Hank’s WorkLife Story.
A construction project director known for taking charge discovers that the decisiveness behind his success is driving his team away, and finds another side of himself on a community theatre stage.
Two Stages is a warm, character-led drama set in Denver, moving between a delayed transit project and a community theatre rehearsal room. On site, Hank is in charge. In the rehearsal room, he has to listen, take direction and wait his turn, until a crisis on site shows him which side of himself each moment needs.
A treatment and draft scripts are available on request.
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