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Julia Cranney                               

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**Longlisted Film London Lodestars 2025**

**Winner of the Méliès Award to the Best European Short Film of the Molins de Rei Film Festival 2023 for MEASURE** 

** Nominated for the Debut Writer award from the TV Foundation/ Edinburgh TV Festival's New Voice Awards 2022**

**Nominated for the Most Promising New Playwright Offie 2018 for Moments and Empty Beds at the Hope Theatre, Islington**

 

Julia is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter and actor born and based in Liverpool.

 

Her current projects include a pilot adaptation commissioned by Roughcut Television and a major streamer (details tba soon). She is attached to write a feature for film producers Robert Delamere and Holly Gilliam and her original drama series outline GROUNDS is optioned to Lime TV.

 

Recently Julia co-wrote and co-directed her first award-winning short film MEASURE with filmmaker Helen Simmons. Julia and Helen are now working with Quay Street Productions and Moon River Productions on two original drama series.

 

Julia’s credits include an 8 x 5' adaptation of A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM for BBC Teach, produced by Munk Studios. She has written three original features for Reel One in Canada: FALLING FOR THE MANNY, A CHRISTMAS MASQUERADE and CHRISTMAS AT THE CHALET which starred Teri Hatcher and was released internationally on Paramount Plus.

 

Julia has previously developed work with Warp Films and Sky Studios and she was nominated for the Edinburgh TV Festival New Voice Awards for EASTENDERS. Her short film LATE premiered at the Holly Shorts Film Festival in LA in 2018 and her short film CRUMBS starring Dan Ryan and directed by Nick Reed premiered at BAFTA Cymru qualifying Carmarthen film festival in 2019.

 

In theatre, Julia developed ATTACHMENT with producer Toby Parsons/ Everyman & Playhouse Liverpool and director Julia Samuels in 2024. She also developed CHILDREN'S PARTY with The Wardrobe Ensemble and the National Theatre Studio in 2022. Previous plays include the Offie-nominated MOMENTS (Hope Theatre, Islington) and EMPTY BEDS (winner of a Scottish Daily Mail Award 2016 and an Eddies award, premiered at the Underbelly Edinburgh before transferring to the Arcola as part of their EH to E8 "Pick of the Fringe" festival).

 

Julia is a member of BAFTA Connect and former coordinator of the SOHO theatres writers alumni group. State-educated and neurodiverse, Julia has a degree in Politics, Psychology and Sociology from Cambridge and she is about to undertake a Masters in Psychotherapy in her spare time. Alongside her creative work, Julia is a writer educator with the creative arts education charity First Story and a volunteer counsellor with Childline.