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Richard Dinnick
Richard Dinnick (born 22 January 1968) is a British screenwriter, novelist, comic book writer, narrative games narrative designer, audio playwright. He is a frequent guest at writing events (including the London Screenwriters' Festival) and such Doctor Who conventions as Gallifrey One as well as San Diego Comic-Con.
Dinnick is a member of BAFTA, the Writers Guild of Great Britain and the Royal Television Society and a Patron of the Children's Media Foundation.
Dinnick started his writing career on the local newspaper Esher News and Mail in 1986. He then specialised in business journalism, working on publications such as Director (the magazine published by the Institute of Directors) and Real Business as part of their editorial teams.
In the late 1990s, he moved to Internet Magazine. During this time he appeared on numerous TV and radio programmes as well as newspapers and industry web sites talking about internet-related matters. He was also shortlisted for the PPA's PTC New Journalist of the Year Award in 1999.
Later he went on to work on the City desk of the Sunday Express and chaired the Government Committee on Web Design Best Practice in 2002/3.
Dinnick is the winner of the 2012 BBC Writersroom opportunity to create a new show and to write for TV on the BBC and went on to write for the CBeebies TV shows Tree Fu Tom and Go Jetters (for which he won a British Screenwriters' Award).
He has worked on developing shows for many companies including NBC and Mind Candy's shelvedMoshi Monsters TV show. He was one of six finalists in a 2014 BBC Academy opportunity to workshop a script for Waterloo Road. In 2015 Dinnick became Head Writer on the new Disney TV show Eena Meena Deeka and in-development action adventure show Captain Extraordinary. He also served as a BAFTA Judge for Children’s Drama in 2013, and Children’s Pre-School Animation in 2019. In between he produced a session for the 2014 Children's Media Conference.
He wrote on the third series of Thunderbirds Are Go! for ITV/Amazon Studios and is developing several ideas for TV. These include the fantasy drama Never After, primetime crime drama Murder of Crows, workplace drama No Kidding, and The Last Horseman, an urban fantasy series. He is working on a web series for Capital City Entertainment, Light & Shadows (a.k.a.Dead Good). He also has a prime time TV crime drama in development with Chrysalis Vision, named "Surface Tension".
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Richard Dinnick
Richard Dinnick (born 22 January 1968) is a British screenwriter, novelist, comic book writer, narrative games narrative designer, audio playwright. He is a frequent guest at writing events (including the London Screenwriters' Festival) and such Doctor Who conventions as Gallifrey One as well as San Diego Comic-Con.
Dinnick is a member of BAFTA, the Writers Guild of Great Britain and the Royal Television Society and a Patron of the Children's Media Foundation.
Dinnick started his writing career on the local newspaper Esher News and Mail in 1986. He then specialised in business journalism, working on publications such as Director (the magazine published by the Institute of Directors) and Real Business as part of their editorial teams.
In the late 1990s, he moved to Internet Magazine. During this time he appeared on numerous TV and radio programmes as well as newspapers and industry web sites talking about internet-related matters. He was also shortlisted for the PPA's PTC New Journalist of the Year Award in 1999.
Later he went on to work on the City desk of the Sunday Express and chaired the Government Committee on Web Design Best Practice in 2002/3.
Dinnick is the winner of the 2012 BBC Writersroom opportunity to create a new show and to write for TV on the BBC and went on to write for the CBeebies TV shows Tree Fu Tom and Go Jetters (for which he won a British Screenwriters' Award).
He has worked on developing shows for many companies including NBC and Mind Candy's shelvedMoshi Monsters TV show. He was one of six finalists in a 2014 BBC Academy opportunity to workshop a script for Waterloo Road. In 2015 Dinnick became Head Writer on the new Disney TV show Eena Meena Deeka and in-development action adventure show Captain Extraordinary. He also served as a BAFTA Judge for Children’s Drama in 2013, and Children’s Pre-School Animation in 2019. In between he produced a session for the 2014 Children's Media Conference.
He wrote on the third series of Thunderbirds Are Go! for ITV/Amazon Studios and is developing several ideas for TV. These include the fantasy drama Never After, primetime crime drama Murder of Crows, workplace drama No Kidding, and The Last Horseman, an urban fantasy series. He is working on a web series for Capital City Entertainment, Light & Shadows (a.k.a.Dead Good). He also has a prime time TV crime drama in development with Chrysalis Vision, named "Surface Tension".