Charity Trimm is a writer/performer fuelled by Northern Grit and biscuits. Along with her writing partner Anne-Marie Draycott she won the BAFTA Rocliffe Comedy Scriptwriting Competition and they were co-winners of the London Screenwriters Festival 50 Kisses Competition. They have written on series 1 & 2 of BBC Alba’s sketch show FUNC which won the 2019 RTS Scotland
Comedy Award. They are currently developing scripts for children’s TV, scripted comedy and radio.
Charity co-founded, produced and wrote material for Edinburgh’s monthly live comedy night, Bearfoot Comedy Club. She was commissioned by Napier University to write An Evening at Stobs – a play recreating a night of entertainment first performed in a WW1 internment camp – which enjoyed a sell out tour. Charity is currently wrangling words for her second short film.
WRITING CREDITS
THEATRE
Shelf Life – Stage play (co-written with A.M Draycott)
Extracts scratched at Square Chapel Arts, Halifax and Page 2 Stage Edinburgh. Long listed for development at The Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh.
A Night at Stobs – Stage play – commissioned by Edinburgh Napier University – Toured 2018
Class Mates – Stage Play (co-written with A.M Draycott)
3 week run at Edinburgh Fringe Festival, performed by A Dash of Theatre; Rehearsed reading by Abooo Theatre, HOME, Manchester.
In Stitches – Short Play (co-written with A.M Draycott)
Selected for performance at: 10 Minutes To… at Live Theatre, Newcastle; David Nobbs Comedy Tribute Night, Seven Arts, Leeds; Abooo Theatre, HOME Arts Centre, Manchester.
TELEVISION / FILM
Shelf Life – comedy pilot (co-written with A.M Draycott)
Long-listed for the 2020 Funny Women Comedy Writing Award
FUNC Series 1 & 2 BBC ALBA – various sketches (co-written with A.M Draycott)
Winner of the RTS Scotland Comedy Award 2019
Scallywagga Series 2 BBC3 – various sketches (co-written with A.M Draycott)
Dream Date – short – (co-written with A.M Draycott)
Co-winner of London Screenwriters Film Festival. Screened at BAFTA & international film festivals
Babs – comedy pilot – created by Susan Jacobson (co-written with A.M Draycott)
Optioned by Lime Pictures/Digital Fiction Factory
Planned to Perfection – comedy pilot (co-written with A.M Draycott)
Optioned by Tidy Productions. Quarter finalist in the Finish Line International Script Competition
Friends Reunited – comedy pilot – (co-written with A.M Draycott)
Optioned by BBC Comedy North in partnership with Bwark. Semi-finalist in the Finish Line
International Script Competition
Unexpected – comedy pilot (co-written with A.M Draycott)
Won the 2011 BAFTA Rocliffe Comedy Scriptwriting Award. Showcased at the New York Television Festival. Optioned by Bwark
LIVE COMEDY
Bearfoot Comedy Club – Writer & performer for the resident sketch group
Happy Hour – (co-written with A.M Draycott)
Comedy Residency at The Albany, London
Three Girls in a Boat – (co-written with A.M Draycott)
Comedy Residency at The Comedy Pub, Leicester Square, London
ONLINE
BBC Comedy Extra (co-written with A.M Draycott)
Wrote and performed online content produced by Monkey Productions
4Laughs(co-written with A.M Draycott)
Wrote and performed sketches for this Channel 4 online initiative
Charity Trimm and Anne-Marie Draycott’s Shelf Life is under contract with development producer Anna Southgate.
