Alannah Olivia

Alannah is a writer/director from Cyprus and Egypt with a particular interest in creating diverse stories for the unrepresented. Alannah grew up in North London, where all the Cypriot’s live surrounded by kebab juice and Churches. After being kicked out of school, Alannah began performing as an outlet for a lot of energy! Alannah created a teaser for an original TV show called OLIVES, which was then taken into development with BBC Drama.

She is also writing two episodes of an original horror TV series for Channel 4 Drama with The Forge. Alannah has an original, action/adventure drama series SAVAGE in development with BBC Drama and Eleven Films. Alannah is currently writing an episode of SWEETPEA for Sky, and was recently in the writers room for Season Two of Boarders for the BBC.

Alannah was also in the writers room for Delicious (Sky) and Flack starring Anna Paquin. Alannah’s short film that she wrote and directed; Taarof ‘a verbal dance’ is now available on the BFI website for a year as part of a season of films curated by Tape Collective called ‘But where are you really from?’ exploring mixed heritage identity.

The film will also be showing at the BFI Southbank this summer. Alannah’s debut feature film I DON’T EAT MEAT! which was developed through Creative England Ifeatures scheme, is now in development with the BFI and Film 4.