Caspar Chamberlain

Age:
late twenties

Nationality:
British

Writing style:
Shady characters, contemporary British settings, with musical and comical interludes.

Type of work looking for:
screen/ stage dramas

Favourite writers’ work:
Novel - Conrad, Victory
Playwright - clichéd but Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night
Screen - John Boorman’s Hope and Glory

Writing influences:
Hanif Kureishi, Bill Bryson, Henri Charriere, Jonathan Gash, Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais

Published work:
A Short Anthology of Short Stories vol 1
A Short Anthology of Short Stories vol 2
Joseph Conrad’s Almayer’s Folly Adpted for the Stage

Unpublished and new work:
Screen drama: Postcard to Sam; about a fatherless girl, 21, in the sixties, discovering her father and a family history from WWII, which affects her own Daughter's life...

Screen comedy, co written with John Hicks Film Maker: Merry Andrew; he's a guy with no backbone, he relies on his friends and family to help him make all the wrong decisions about the girl he desires...

Novel: Journey into Man - a bildungsroman set in the early 90s, covering music and drugs used by two close friends until one gets sent to prison and the other damages their friendship by seducing the absent friend’s pregnant girlfriend...