Profiles

Caren Kennedy is the co-creator of a TV drama series optioned by JJ Abrams and Warner Bros TV (2007 – 2014) and co-author of ‘Fake Alibis’ (BenBella Books, 2009).  She is currently studying for an MA in Screenwriting in the National Film School at the Institute of Art, Design & Technology (IADT) Dún Laoghaire.

In 2015, she won a place on the RED ROCK Writers’ Academy (funded by Screen Training Ireland and the BAI) where she underwent intensive training in writing for television drama with John Yorke, former Head of Channel Four Drama and founder of the BBC Writers Academy (www.johnyorkestory.com). This also involved writing a spec script. She began writing for Season 3 of Red Rock (TV / BBC / Amazon) in 2016.

Caren is also editor with Cyberscribe.ie, online TV Treatments writing tutor with The Inkwell Group, and active member of the ‘Writer in Prisons’ scheme sponsored by Arts Council Ireland.  She is also currently completing ‘Tough Love’, her first screenplay, an extract of which came second in the Linen Press 2015 'New Beginnings’ Competition for its “multiple layers, depth, political backdrop, vibrant and rich dialogue”.  She is represented in the US by Vamnation Entertainment.