Sinéad Fagan

Sinéad is a comedy writer with a talent for writing strong, funny, female characters. With a background in TV production and journalism, she has been a regular writer on RTE’s long-running soap FAIR CITY and has written sketches for BBC NI’s SOFT BORDER PATROL and (with Justin Carr) for both series of CBBC’s THE JOHNNY & INEL SHOW.  Other children’s work includes episodes for Jam Media’s LITTLE ROY, Hot Drop’s CUBY ZOO, Kavaleer’s ALVA’S WORLD, RTE historical sketch show BLASTS FROM THE PAST, and several series of ODDBODS (with Justin Carr) – series 2 and 3 of which were nominated for an International Emmy Kids Award. In terms of original work, Sinéad has developed TV comedies with BBC Comedy North, Hat Trick and Can Can Productions/Channel 4, and a feature-length comedy with Parallel Films. She is currently developing an original live-action children’s series for Can Can Productions/CBBC as well as a writing a family feature film for Treasure Entertainment (under Screen Ireland’s New Writing Scheme).