Stuart Hepburn

Stuart Hepburn lectures in Scriptwriting and Performance at UWS. He has been acting and writing screenplays professionally for over 20 years.
He is a leading writer and Story Consultant for BBC Drama River City. He has written two feature films: The James Gang (Revolution Films) starred John Hannah and Toni Collette, and A Love Divided (Parallel Films) achieved five Irish Film and TV Award Nominations. He was the winner of the Writer's Guild Award for Drama in 1996 for his work on Taggart, and is currently writing his third feature, a World War Two Drama called Arthur and Helene
Stuart was Chair of the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh from 2001-2005. He has written three stage plays, and over 80 hours of Television, including most recently Quite Ugly One Morning, starring James Nesbitt, and The Planman, starring Robbie Coltraine. He created McCallum, adapted Ian Rankin's Rebus for Clerkenwell Films and has written for Hamish Macbeth, Taggart, Foyle's War and most recently Wild At Heart for Company Pictures.
He is developing a Film for Television called Chic Murray, a unique projct under development with Ewan Angus at the BBC and Alan Clements at STV. He is also writing The Pirate for Dave McLennan at Oran Mor. He has been a visiting lecturer at the Universities of St.Andrews, Stirling and Glasgow.