Female Pilot Club 2024 Reveals Two Script Call Finalists

 Female Pilot Club 2024 Reveals Two Script Call Finalists
 Female Pilot Club 2024 Reveals Two Script Call Finalists
Finalists of the Female Pilot Club 2024 Script Call, "Student Debt" by Luna Al-kaisy and "Neurotic Queers" by Sarah Campbell have been chosen from 160 comedy scripts submitted by female writers. They will be read live by top flight British comedy talent on 26 March at JW3 London. Tickets are now available on the JW3 website.
 

Luna Al-kaisy is an up-and-coming comedy writer who has worked entry-level jobs on Sid Gentle productions including Extraordinary seasons 1 and 2. She was a finalist in the 2023 Shore TV Pilot Contest and a semi-finalist in the Outstanding Screenplays TV Pilot Competition. She is an occasional illustrator and a fan of American sitcoms.

Sarah Campbell (pictured with yellow background) is a writer and occasional performer from Stockport. She came up through open submission shows like Newsjack, and has written for a wide range of sketch and comedy entertainment shows, including The Mash Report, Frankie Boyle’s New World Order and Bake Off Extra Slice. Her short film The Bride and the Bride was selected for the 25th London Lesbian and Gay Film festival and screened at the BFI. She became TikTok famous during Christmas 2022. She was unaware at the time, but she definitely remembers people looking at her.

Past Female Pilot Club performances have included Louise Brealey, Kiell Smith-Bynoe, Robert Webb, Arabella Weir, Sarah Hadland, Shobna Gulati, Taj Atwal, Hayley Tamaddon and many more. 
 
Sponsors are Yellow Door Productions and Imagine Talent. The judges were Georgia Pritchett (Succession, Veep, The Shrink Next Door), Athena Kugblenu (The News Quiz, The Now Show, The Russell Howard Hour), Lucy Lumsden (Yellow Door Productions), and Sioned Wiliam (BAFTA-nominated producer, former controller of ITV Comedy and ex-commissioning editor for BBC Radio 4 Comedy).
 
 
 
 
 

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