MARK LAING

Personal Bio

Journalist, script reader and screenwriter with five completed scripts, several treatments, staged readings. Three screenplays selected for Virtual Pitch Fest 2022 Top 20 — (2022 scripts with the most yes responses for the entire year.)

— https://www.virtualpitchfest.com/the-vpf-20/

Experience Script Reader, Edward Pressman Productions, Beverly Hills Coverage writer and reader at leading Hollywood Motion Picture Production company.

Sub editor\Journalist, The daily TELEGRAPH

Freelance sub editor\writer for Daily Telegraph sports desk.

Freelance sub-editor, The Sun, Daily Mirror, Reader’s Digest Books, Financial Times, Observer, Health and Social Services Journal, The Times, Sunday Times.

Sub Editor, The Oxford Mail, Oxford

Sub-editor for regional evening newspaper.  Movie reviews, book reviews, sports and news editing and writing.

Education Bristol Old Vic Theatre School Graduate.

University of East Anglia — English and American Studies.

Bembridge School, Isle of Wight.

Skills News and feature writing, copywriting, journalism, script rewriting, editing, sub-editing. 

Further Education Sherwood Oaks Film School, Los Angeles; UCLA Writer’s Extension, Los Angeles; TV Pilot and New Series Workshop, On The Page, Pilar Alexander, Richmond Writer’s Circle, UK; Original Writer’s Group, Lavender Hill, London; Richmond Theatre Adult Scriptwriting group.