Alannah Olivia

Biography

Alannah is a writer/director from Cyprus and Egypt with a particularinterest in creating diverse stories for the unrepresented. Alannah grew upin North London, where all the Cypriot’s live surrounded by kebab juiceand Churches. After being kicked out of school, Alannah began performingas an outlet for a lot of energy!Alannah created a teaser for an original TV show called OLIVES, which wasthen taken into development with BBC Drama. She is also writing twoepisodes of an original horror TV series for Channel 4 Drama with TheForge. Alannah has an original, action/adventure drama series SAVAGE indevelopment with BBC Drama and Eleven Films.Alannah is currently writing an episode of SWEETPEA for Sky, and wasrecently in the writers room for Season Two of Boarders for the BBC.Alannah was also in the writers room for Delicious (Sky) and Flack starringAnna Paquin.Alannah’s short film that she wrote and directed; Taarof ‘a verbal dance’ isnow available on the BFI website for a year as part of a season of filmscurated by Tape Collective called ‘But where are you really from?’exploring mixed heritage identity. The film will also be showing at the BFISouthbank this summer.Alannah’s debut feature film I DON’T EAT MEAT! which was developedthrough Creative England Ifeatures scheme, is now in development withthe BFI and Film 4.