ANITA VETTESSE
Anita is part of the 2023 Brit List with her four-part revenge thriller, Your Knife, My Back, My Gun, Your Head which she is currently working on with BBC Studios. She is also working with them on a new precinct medical drama, Beds. Other TV projects include an episode of a World Productions series; a TV adaptation for Synchronicity Films; an adaptation of the award-winning podcast, Who Killed Emma for Firebird Pictures; and co-writing a new sitcom for BBC Studios, Wired.
Anita also co-created BBC Radio 4’s crime drama This Thing of Darkness (winner of the British Podcast Award 2021 and nominee for Best Writer, Tinniswood 2021). Other TV credits include Grantchester and River City.
Her theatre work includes Ringroad, which was nominated for Best New Play at the Critics’ Theatre Awards and is currently being toured by Theatre Bistouri in Québec. Anita was writer in residence at National Theatre Scotland as part of the John Mather Trust Award and written a dark thriller, The Hand Over. She has just finished writing Faith, a modern ghost story, to be staged in 2025.