Oliver is a queer British screenwriter, working across both features and television, drama and comedy, in the US and UK.
He has a passion for relationship and family-based stories, particularly those with an ensemble. He loves creating well rounded diverse / LGBT characters and complex female leads. Oliver feels honoured to have been named one of the International Screenwriters’ Association Top 25 Screenwriters to Watch.
TV SERIES
Currently, Oliver has a number of completed pilot scripts available to option / produce.
Each project has a pitch deck / look book also available, on request.
Please reach out if you’re interested in considering any of the listed projects.
10 x 60min Comedy Drama Series (US)
An awkward teen runaway from Ohio crashes into the New York life of his estranged, unawares father - a depressed gay academic in crisis - and is soon followed by a ragtag collection of the teen’s baggage-filled friends, stretching this nascent relationship to breaking point.
10 x 60min Comedy Drama Series (US)
A heavily-pregnant freelance fashion designer, with a Peter Pan complex and combusting birth-plan, opens her home to four other desperate soon-to-be single moms, and finds herself in a constant battle for the role of matriarch as they raise their newborns in a five-woman, five-baby, no men, East Village commune.
10 x 50min Plot Driven Comedy Series (US)
A closeted gay bank teller and his self-destructive, but charming, new colleague, burst from anonymity to the top of the FBI’s Most Wanted list, as they embark on an interstate crime-spree road trip, that leads to infamy… And love.
10 x 30min Comedy Series (US)
A failed dancer dumps her failing vegan-entrepreneur boyfriend, but with both too stubborn to vacate their prized rent-controlled studio apartment, they begin newly single lives in incredibly close quarters and wage a lie-fueled war as she becomes determined to expel him, and he to win her back.
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FEATURE FILMS
Here are a selection of completed feature scripts ready to share with producers and agents.
Each project has a pitch deck / look book also available, on request.
Please reach out if you’re interested in considering any of the listed projects.
95min Drama Feature Film (UK)
A gregarious beauty photographer falls for a charming recluse whose debilitating and misunderstood skin condition confines him to a bathtub, but as he battles medical consensus and an increasingly tormented mother, the photographer must face up to her own body dysmorphia and disfigurements before she can truly commit.
Inspired by a true story
105min Indie Drama Feature Film (UK)
A brutal dumping sends a young gay romantic into a spiral of discovery and destruction, but over the next decade, each time his damaged ex resurfaces, the romantic’s heart is crushed anew. However, when his latest partner is dragged into this savage love affair, the romantic must finally learn to lay his first love to rest.
110min Comedy Drama Feature Film (AUSTRALIA)
A down-and-out, off-the-grid hunter and his brash strip-club hairdressing brother, both suffer tragedy when divorce and suicide render them ill-prepared single-fathers, and only by coming together to face their own daddy-issues, can they become the men their children need them to be.
Inspired by Oliver’s short documentary of the same name
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