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Jane is currently working on a powerful new screenplay ILLIA © AYAN with director Yousaf Ali Khan (Almost Adult, Skin Deep, Talking With Angels), a love story set in a detention centre for asylum seekers. She has also recently developed ANGEL PAVEMENT, a high concept police series about a gay detective heading up the Family Liaison department.
Her screenplay THE THIEVING HEADMISTRESS was transmitted on BBC2 in 2006. Starring Pauline Quirke, Denis Lawson and Geoffrey Palmer, it told the story of a head teacher of a London Catholic school (a former nun) who went to prison for stealing thousands from the school funds.
Her other recent work includes MORTAL COIL - a dark suburban comedy drama series, developed for Bravura Films and Television and NOTHING COMPARES..., a film commissioned by JS Productions, about troubled a youth.
Jane has a number of other original ideas in various stages of development, including THE LINDSAY LETTERS about her friendship with film director Lindsay Anderson (If..., O Lucky Man, This Sporting Life) and docu-dram SUMMAT'S HAPPENED for 'The Producers', telling the story of one of the children of a prostitute murdered by the Yorkshire Ripper from her own research, as well as I WAS A TEENAGE CARER about a 15 year-old-boy who is the sole carer for his disabled mother. She has also co-written a new, short stage play HUNKY DORY.
She is also currently developing the film TWO TEAS AND A COFFEE... with Julian Farino (Dir: Entourage, Sex in the City, Our Mutual Friend), as well as EGGSHELL BLUE, commissioned by JSP.
Jane has written episodes of various dramas including THE BILL and IN SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES, story-lined for CORONATION STREET and written a series of short films for Granada's THIS MORNING.
She has created ideas for drama and drama docs based on her research as a doctor of philosophy in criminology, working with both female offenders and young offenders in prison, the children of female inmates and with offenders tagged in the community. Jane says she likes to write about troubled teens as this is something she feels she knows a lot about.
She has also worked on the BBC's PANORAMA programme on female sex offenders.
In 2005, the first chapter of her novel Swan Vesta was short-listed at the Guildford Book Festival.
Jane is represented by Emily Hayward
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