Georgia Lester

writer


TELEVISION

Georgia was Lead Writer and Executive Producer on the BBC/ BBC Studios’ KIDNAPPED, adapted from the memoir of Chloe Ayling, due to tx 2024. She was Lead Writer and Supervising Producer on Idris Elba’s TURN UP CHARLIE for Netflix, tx’d 2019. Credits include WOLFE S1 (AbbottVision/Sky) and KILLING EVE S4. Commissions include a pilot for a sci-fi thriller adaptation (Raw TV), an original series, TRASH (Vertigo), an adaptation of Juno Dawson’s Y/A bestseller, HOLLOW PIKE, (Lime Pictures) and a polish of feature screenplay JOLT for Millennium Media. Georgia started her writing career in the SKINS writers’ room at the age of 18 and remained on the SKINS team for five years, writing four episodes, including the Finale of Series 6. Other credits include 20 episodes of HOLLYOAKS and YOUNGERS S1 (Big Talk/E4). In 2015 she spent three months in New York story producing E4’s structured reality show TAKING NEW YORK (TwoFour Productions) and went on to story produce on TOWIE. She has also written Comedy pilot scripts for Avalon and Hare and Tortoise. Georgia was a Broadcast Hot Shot in 2011. Her first feature script MULES was chosen to be showcased at the 2015 BAFTA Rocliffe’s Film Forum.