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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 theatre work includes the Offie-nominated MOMENTS (Hope Theatre, Islington) and EMPTY BEDS (winner of the Scottish Daily Mail Award and an inaugural Eddies award, premiered at Underbelly Edinburgh before transferring to the Arcola as part of their EH to E8 "Pick of the Fringe" festival). Julia’s screenwork includes an animated adaptation of A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM for BBC Teach, three original romcom features for Reel One in Canada (released internationally on Paramount Plus) and she was nominated for the Edinburgh TV Festival New Voice Awards for her debut script of EASTENDERS. Julia co-wrote and co-directed the short film MEASURE with filmmaker Helen Simmons which screened at BAFTA and Academy Award qualifying festivals internationally, winning the Méliès Award for Best European Short Film at the Molins de Rei Film Festival. She currently has a new short, feature and several tv projects in development.

 

Julia is a member of BAFTA Connect and former coordinator of the SOHO Theatre writers’ alumni group. State-educated and neurodiverse, she originally trained as a writer with the Everyman's young writers programme. Alongside her creative work, Julia is a writer educator with the creative arts education charity First Story and a volunteer counsellor with Childline. She is also mum to Nin.