Adrienne Conway

Hi, the day has finally come when I say I am going to write something about me.
I began acting in the late 60's. I was still in my teens,...working with Ken Loach. Up The Junction and Cathy Come Home plus several more of Ken's films.

I worked with the best TV drama directors in the business at that time, and always being cast as 'funny young girls' even in a drama. (we won't go into the FFN part) I did theatre -comedy and farce. I was not allowed to grow up, Type casting, As I turned work down it dried up.

I has always wanted to write and came up with the idea of writing a sitcom I could star in, as i longed to develop a character that has a life.I joined a writers group and began writing. At that time i was also co-writing with a fellow actor. Trying to form a drama series. We were lucky when an agent who was just starting up her own client list took us on. I split from co-writer, but my first sitcom Streets Apart a 30" sitcom was taken up by the BBC TV, It went out on BBC1 8,30 pm. The best time. It proved very popular with high viewing figures, A very exciting time. Series 2 was booked. I was not terribly happy with the way it went. There was supposed to be another, however in the mean time. JOHN HOWARD DAVIES poached me to write a series for him at Thames TV. BTW. in the end I was too engrossed with the production to find myself an acting role in it

I wrote A Slight Hitch. Which starred Nigel Havers, It went extremely well. Alas it didn't go to series as the company Thames TV lost their, franchise.

I was the hot new writer on the block. Dinning out 3 times a week with producers, who were looking for hit shows. Haha!

A drama series set in the music world and family life, was commissioned and turned down by ITV commissioners who didn't believe Jo Public would be interested in the pop world. Yes really!

And so I had 2 big series, turned down withing a few months. My agent said goodbye. I wrote a very good screenplay treatment for a Romcom. and sent it in my self to Working Titles UK films. and got an interview. The head of low budget movies really like it, but the slot was full that year and there was a romcom in development. ....if I made it on my own...love to see.

Thoroughly fed up with it all and with the British weather, I sold up and moved to Southern Spain, where I eventually started to write a novel. I lived there for 12 years and am now back in London for 4. Lost touch with all the contacts I has made as they are either retired or sadly dead, I rediscovered my romcom and did a lot of work on it -only to find that the genre is - on the whole dead.

The novel. I am now polishing edits. I really see as a movie, but knowing how hard it is to get one away, I thought I would write it first as a novel. ( I recently read an article here advising this, Good to know) I found the transition for script to prose very hard at first. It has taken me some time to find the style that I wanted, in this first person novel. And so that is where I am now. i would be delighted to get a little acting. work now and then... (No longer that funny little girl!) And watch this space!