HAYDEN J. WEAL

I wrote this series with Chye-Ling Huang (and a lot of help from Steve Barr) and we laughed a lot. The characters of Niah, Jonas, Wendy, Declan and Roe will forever feel like my own good friends.

I got to write with Tom Sainsbury! We would go away, write a sequence separately, and then come together and read each other's work out loud. I've always been in love with Tom, so this felt like a dream come true.

For three months, I got up at 6am every day and wrote this film, basing it around resources I knew we could use for filming. It felt pure and simple, an entire film made from two-hander dialogue scenes.

After acting together in Getting Toasted, Nick Davies and I wanted to write something to be in together. Then, after I acted in an ad with Aman Bajaj, I decided I'd rather direct and see him and Nick be a duo. A good decision.

I wrote this with Emma Draper, a talented actress who I've known since Film School in 2007. This short film is what led to writing Chronesthesia.

I co-wrote this with my best friend Andy Campion. He directed and I acted in it. Fun fact: Martin Freeman and Sir Ian McKellen came to the premiere of Hot Rob which we held at Sir Peter Jackson's private cinema.

The introductory novella to the Seen in Silverbridge series, available for free when you sign up to the Emerson Black Writes newsletter.

My first published novel! I write this mystery series under a pen name to keep it separate from my film work, but now you know my secret.

The second book in the Seen in Silverbridge series. This was easier and more fun to write than the first, and people seem to like it more. I think I knew the characters better.

Who would've thought I'd write a puppet play based thousands of metres under the sea? Directed by Ryan Dulieu and put on stage in Auckland Fringe Festival.

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