Claire Peate is an award winning scriptwriter and novelist. She won the BAFTA Rocliffe Film scriptwriting award in 2016 and the University of South Wales’ Faculty of Creative Industries award.
Her script The Colour Room, a biopic feature on the ceramicist Clarice Cliff, has been optioned by Caspian Films and has been awarded funding from Ffilm Cymru. It is currently in script development.
Claire has four novels published, has been nominated for Wales Book of the Year, was twice WHSmith’s pick of the week, and has spoken at the Hay Festival. In addition she was on the judging panel of Literature Wales’ International Poetry Competition.
She has recently completed an MA in Scriptwriting and is represented by Hannah Boulton at The Agency.
On stage at BAFTA, December 2016
