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By Alissa Watson

Discover more of Birch’s writing in these film and television works:

Available on Netflix:

The Wonder

  • Medium: Film
    • Period psychological drama
  • Role: Screenwriter. Written with Emma Donoghue and Sebastián Lelio, based on Emma Donoghue’s novel.
    • Set shortly after the Great Famine, The Wonder follows an English nurse sent to a rural Irish village to observe a young ‘fasting girl’, who is seemingly able to miraculously survive without eating.
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Available on Amazon Prime:

Dead Ringers

  • Medium: Television
  • Role: Lead writer and executive producer
  • Inspired by the 1988 David Cronenberg film.
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Conversations with Friends

  • Medium: Television
  • Role: Writer
  • Based on Sally Rooney’s book, Conversations with Friends follows Frances, a 21-year-old college student, as she navigates a series of relationships that force her to confront her own vulnerabilities for the first time.
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Normal People

  • Medium: Television
    • Romantic psychological drama
  • Role: Writer along with Sally Rooney and Mark O’Rowe
  • Adaptation of Sally Rooney’s novel that follows the relationship of Marianne Sheridan and Connell Waldron, as they navigate adulthood.
  • Received Emmy nomination, Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series, Episode 3.
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Mothering Sunday

  • Medium: Film
    • Second feature, romantic drama
  • Role: Screenwriter
  • Based on the novel by Graham Swift.
    • Set in the wake of World War 1, the film follows the life of Jane Fairchild (Young), an orphaned maidservant who spends Mothering Sunday with her wealthy lover.

Lady Macbeth

  • Medium: Film
  • Role: Screenwriter (debut)
  • Based on the 1865 novella Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District by Nikolai Leskov.
    • Follows a young woman who is stifled by her loveless marriage to a bitter man twice her age.
  • Won 5 British Independent Film Awards in 2017.
    • Including Best Screenplay.
    • Nominated in an additional 10 categories.
  • Nominated for Best Debut Screenwriter (BAFTA).
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Available on Apple TV:

The End We Start From

  • Medium: Film
  • Role: Screenwriter
  • British survival film adapted from the novel by Megan Hunter.

 

Published February 2025