Jeff Young

Liverpool-based screenwriter and playwright Jeff Young is one of the BBC's most experienced radio dramatists (with over 25 radio plays broadcast in the last 20 years). In recent years he has also begun writing for film and television, having completed the BBC Writers Academy, and his credits include CASUALTY, DOCTORS, EASTENDERS, HOLBY CITY and STEPPING UP (CBBC). Jeff's stage work includes plays for Liverpool Everyman, Kneehigh and Bristol Old Vic, and he wrote a major stage adaptation of The Who's QUADROPHENIA which toured the UK in 2009.

Jeff's acclaimed memoir GHOST TOWN was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award in 2021.