Writing
December 1, 1978
47 years old
Newton Le Willows
Nick Leather is a BAFTA, RTS and Writers' Guild of Great Britain award-winning writer.
His work includes the single drama 'Mother's Day' (BBC2/RTE), for which he won the RTS NW Award for Best Scriptwriter 2019 and was nominated for the Writers' Guild Award for Best Short Form TV Drama, and the single drama 'Murdered For Being Different' (BBC3), which won the BAFTA and RTS Awards for Best Single Drama 2018, and was nominated for a Rose D'Or, Broadcast and British Screenwriters' Award.
Previous production credits include Jimmy McGovern's drama series "Broken' (BBC1) and 'The Worst Witch' (CBBC/Netflix), for which he was nominated for a Writers' Guild Award 2018. He created the children's drama series 'Rocket's Island', which ran for three seasons, won a Prix Jeunesse in 2016, and was BAFTA nominated for 'Best Children's Drama' in 2014 and 2016. In 2012 he won the Writers' Guild Award for Best Episode Of A Continuing Drama for his work on Channel Four's 'Hollyoaks', and in 2013 was BAFTA-nominated in the Best Children's Writer category for his episode of the CBBC show 'Stepping Up'.