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Kay Mellor

Saturday 23 March
Kay Mellor – The Syndicate

3pm New Headingley Club, St Michael’s Road

Watch clips from the second (six part) series of The Syndicate, and ask Kay questions.
Kay Mellor OBE is a Leeds born and bred writer, director and actress best known for her work on several successful and groundbreaking drama series - including Fat Friends, Band of Gold and most recentlyThe Syndicate.

She attended Bretton Hall College and graduated with a BA Hons degree in 1983. As a writer, she began working for Granada Television, working for their hugely popular soap opera Coronation Street, the most watched programme on the ITV network. In 1989 she also wrote many episodes for the popular Channel 4 soap opera Brookside. Kay also wrote for the anthology drama series Dramarama, before in 1988 co-creating the long-running children's drama Children’s Ward with her Coronation Street colleague Paul Abbott. She also created the soap opera Families which aired from 1990 until 1993.

Since then she has written a host of highly-acclaimed and popular television drama serials, including Band of Gold (1995), Playing the Field (1998), Fat Friends (2000), Between the Sheets (2003), Strictly Confidential (2006), The Chase (2006), A Passionate Woman (2010) and The Syndicate (2012).
Outside of television, in 1999 she both wrote and directed the feature film Fanny and Elvis, starring Ray Winstone.
In her parallel career as a television actress, Kay has appeared in her own adaptation of Jane Eyre (1997) and in other series such as the comedy drama Stan the Man (2002) and in Gifted (2003).

The first series of The Syndicate , starring Timothy Spall and Joanna Page, appeared on BBC One in April 2012. The second series, with a new cast, will be on screens in spring 2013.
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