Anna Ssemuyaba

Anna Ssemuyaba is one of the UK’s most in-demand screenwriters, as predicted by Deadline when she was named one of their ‘10 Rising British Scribes to Watch Out For’. She first began working in TV development at 17, as a runner for Dangerous Films. She then worked her way up in Film production and wrote for the Times Literary Supplement, while studying English Language & Literature at the University of Oxford. After which, she was selected for the presitigious BBC Production Trainee program, where she worked in BBC Drama and as a producer for Front Row on Radio 4. After leaving the BBC, she worked in development and script edited Academy Award-winner John Ridley’s first UK series Guerrilla and Lucy Kirkwood’s Adult Material. Her debut pilot script On the Verge, was then selected for a SKY Table Read, Channel 4's 4Screenwiriting, featured on The Brit List, and subsequently acquired by Netflix. In 2020, Anna wrote I Don’t Want to Talk About This, a short film starring Adelayo Adedayo and Joe Cole, for ITV. Since then, she has contributed to numerous writers’ rooms and penned episodes for hit series including Greg Daniels’ Upload (Amazon), Hijack (Apple), The Buccaneers (Apple), and Smothered (SKY). She is currently writing an episode of a new Netflix series, and is actively developing original TV and film projects with the BBC, Channel 4, Film4, BBC Films, and ITV Studios.