Jacquetta May

Jacquetta May has been working as a TV scriptwriter since 1999. She is currently adapting FEAR OF FLYING by Erica Jong for the American Sundance Channel; developing a series about women in their 40s for BBC Scotland, and has just been asked to write a treatment for a series about waiters, also for the BBC. Jacquetta has written episodes of WHERE THE HEART IS (ITV), NEW TRICKS (BBC 1), NO ANGELS (C4), TORCHWOOD (BBC3 and 1), and P. A's (BBC 3). She created a youth series called UGetMe (CBBC and BBC 2) that ran for three series and has developed a youth drama called HOOLIGANS. Her 90-minute film about Barbara Cartland IN LOVE WITH BARBARA is often shown on BBC 4.
Jacquetta, who studied at Bristol University, has also worked in theatre and TV as an actress, director and producer. As a theatre actress she worked at National Theatre, Manchester Royal Exchange, Liverpool Everyman, The Bush, B.A.C amongst others. She has worked in TV since 1990 and is known for her role of Rachel Kominski in Eastenders, as a regular in Dangerfield, Cardiac Arrest, and Home Farm Twins, also appearing in Being Human, Law and Order, I’m Still Alan Partridge, Cold Feet, Uncle Silas, Four Fathers, Silent Witness amongst many many others.
Jacquetta co-founded and ran the critically acclaimed new writing theatre company Plain Clothes Productions, commissioning and developing new scripts and producing plays for a London run and national tours. She still really enjoys working with other writers and developing new work both for theatre and TV. She directed Her Sister’s Tongue at The Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith.