About

A former journalist, Lindsay Jane Sedgwick is an award-winning screenwriter, playwright, and author based in Dublin, and renowned for her versatility across genres and mediums. Since 2017, she has published seven books of fiction, non-fiction and children’s literature.

A former Chair of the Irish Writers Union, she currently lectures in screenwriting at Maynooth University where she was Screenwriter in Residence 2016-7.

Books by L J Sedgwick

Dad’s Red Dress (Janey Mac Books 2017)

The Angelica Touch (Janey Mac  Books, 2018)

Write That Script! (Janey Mac Books 2018)

Wulfie: Stage Fright (Little Island Books, Oct 2020.)

Wulfie: Beast in Show. (Little Island Books, March 2021.)

Wulfie Saves the Planet. (Little Island Books Sept 2021.)

Wulfie: A Ghostly Tail. (Little Island Books, March 2022.)

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A screenwriting tutor since 1995, Lindsay was Screenwriter in Residence at Maynooth University and Kildare County Council Arts & Libraries Service 2016-7. She is a graduate of Moonstone ScreenLabs (2002), was a New York University ‘Gregory Peck Scriptwriting Course’ scholar, (1993) and has an MA Screenwriting from Leeds Metropolitan University (1999).

TV and film credits include the internationally acclaimed animation series, PUNKY, now available in over 100 countries. She has had eight films optioned and one made; worked as a writer on seven series that were broadcast, developed circa 12 original series in a range of genres, of which eight were optioned. 

In 2012, she founded the Creatives in Animation Network (CAN) to facilitate collaboration between writers and animators.

She is a script and creative consultant who has workedwith production companies in Ireland and internationally. She has written for children, adults, and family audiences in film, TV, games, apps, animation, and live action.

As a tutor, Lindsay has designed and given workshops and writing courses in many of the major educational institutions around Ireland, both universities and colleges and the irish Writers Centre, and has been a guest speaker at conferences in London, Cork and Dublin and for many writing festivals all over Ireland including Cúirt and Content UK.

She has also moderated interviews and panels  and designed webinars for the Screen Directors Guild of Ireland (SDGI), the Irish Film & TV Academy (IFTA), Screen Ireland and the irish Writers Union, as well as being a jury member for IFTA, and the Writers Guild of Ireland and for many short film competitions nationally.  For 19 years, she ran screenwriting courses in Filmbase fbut has also given them in UCD, DCU, Maynooth Uni and, most recently, for the Irish Writer’s Centre.

Content focus has run from and overall introduction to screenwriting to writing interactive narrative fiction to creating character, from dialogue to writing the individual scene and creating TV series, from dramatic communication to visual storytelling. She has also targeted short courses and workshops for private companies and individuals, a Deis school (14-15 years-old) and drama therapy students at Maynooth University. 

From short films to features to creating TV series, from family films to psychological thrillers, from games and apps to children’s animation, from books for adults, YA and children to non-fiction, from stage plays (14 productions in the UK and Ireland) ot interactive narrative and character creation, Lindsay has worked in an unusually wide range of media and for a wide range of audiences and clients.