Breaking into TV with Roxy Cook

Tue 14 Oct 2025

Written by Roxy Cook

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Roxy Cook will draw on her experience as a development executive, script editor and writer to illuminate the writer’s journey into TV: schemes and competitions, spec scripts, treatments and two pagers. While screen is a very different medium to stage, Roxy will focus on strategically harnessing what makes you unique as a playwright to carve out your space in a crowded, tumultuous industry.The session will cover the state of the industry and how it works, before moving onto specific spec and treatment examples, followed by a Q&A. Participants are invited to highlight topics they’d like covered in advance, if they wish.

Tuesday 14 October 2025, 19:00-21:30

This masterclass will take place online and participants will be sent a link ahead of the Masterclass.

If you have any access requirements, you can let us know by contacting filling out our Writer’s Programme Accessibility Form or contacting Theatre503 via our Writers’ Programme email, writersprogramme@theatre503.com or by calling 02079787040.

For further details of Theatre503 Accessibility, please visit the Access page of our website.

Thanks to our Share The Drama scheme, we want to make sure those of you who are struggling in the current climate can still take part in our Writers Programme. If you would like to book a Share The Drama bursary for the Writer’s Programme, please call our box office on 02079787040.

Roxy Cook

Roxy is a writer and director working across theatre, film and TV. After 6 years directing new writing, her first play A Woman Walks Into a Bank won the Theatre503 International Playwriting Award, was a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, shortlisted for the Women’s Prize and a longlisted for the Bruntwood and Verity Bargate Award. Roxy directed the sell-out, extended run and is now on attachment to the Royal Court.

Alongside theatre, Roxy currently works in TV at Paper Entertainment, where she develops projects with leading screenwriters as well as emerging talent. She has worked with early career writers at the BFI, Channel 4’s 4Screenwriting scheme, Bafta Rocliffe, Brock Media and the Royal Television Society, as well as on Season 4 of Sex Education.