Jonny King

I'm a musician by day, writer by night, originally from High Wycombe - which genuinely has a chair museum - but now living a seagull poop-spattered existence in Plymouth. I began pursuing comedy writing in 2015, starting off writing jokes and sketches for radio, before moving on to writing for the screen, specialising in comedy-drama. I enjoy writing stories about underdogs and outsiders on the fringes of society, creating complicated, diverse characters, with more to them than first meets the eye.

My comedy-drama feature LAND'S END was a 2019 Shore Scripts Feature Contest winner, a 2020 We Screenplay Feature Contest finalist, a 2020 Screen Craft Screenwriting Fellowship semi-finalist and a 2020 Blue Cat Screenplay Competition quarter-finalist. LAND'S END is ranked in the overall top 1% of all projects on Coverfly and has appeared on the Red List. It is also a Black List Recommended script, putting it in the top 1% of all scripts on the site. LAND'S END is currently in development Entertainment Lab.

My comedy-drama pilot GIFTED won both Best TV Series and Best Overall Screenplay at the 2021 Page Turner Awards. GIFTED was also a finalist in both the 2021 Final Draft Big Break Screenwriting Contest and the 2021 Emerging Screenwriters Genre Screenplay Competition, as well as reaching the semi-finals of both the 2022 ISA Table Read My Screenplay Genre Screenplay Competition and the 2021 Script Lab Screenplay Contest. GIFTED was also short-listed for the 2021 Screen and Story Film Festival Screenplay Competition and long-listed for the 2021 Short Com TV Sitcom Writing Competition. GIFTED has featured on Coverfly's Red List and is ranked in the top 1% of all projects. It is in development with Entertainment Lab and has Jane Asher attached.

My sitcom pilot OLIGARCHS won the Golden Nib award for Best Sitcom Pilot Screenplay in the 2021 Let's Make It Screenwriting Contest, coming in third place overall. OLIGARCHS was also a quarter-finalist in the 2020 Script Lab Screenplay Contest, the 2020 We Screenplay TV Contest and the 2022 ISA Table Read My Screenplay Genre Screenplay Competition. It is currently listed in the top 10% of projects on Coverfly.

My comedy-drama pilot BEYOND THE WHITE LINE was a finalist in the 2023 Page Turner Awards, a semi-finalist in the 2023 Outstanding Screenplays TV Pilot Competition and was long-listed for both the 2023 Short Com TV Sitcom Writing Competition and the 2023 David Nobbs Memorial Trust New Comedy Writing Competition. It was in the top 20% in the 2023 All3Media New Writers Collective and is in the top 20% of projects on Coverfly.

My comedy-drama short SOLSTICE was shortlisted for Best Script in the 2020 Film The House Competition and is currently in development with Director Maya Avidov.

My comedy short BOLD was a Best Comedy Screenplay winner in the 2021 Newman Consults Four Minute Screenplay Competition, a 2023 IMDb Script to Screen Award finalist and was shortlisted for Best Script at the 2023 Film The House Awards.

My broadcast credits include Newsjack, The Skewer, Breaking The News, DMs Are Open and The Treason Show. My ambition is to become a full-time professional screenwriter within the next three years and I'm currently working on building up my portfolio with a range of projects, including shorts, features and pilots.

I also do some sports writing, having written for a number of magazines and websites, including When Saturday Comes. I'm editor of The Wanderer fanzine and have assisted the media department of Wycombe Wanderers Football Club, including writing for the matchday programme and providing live matchday commentary and social media reporting - which I was rubbish at.