“I never stop thinking – about ideas that inspire me, or whimsies that tickle me, or themes that I can never dive deeply enough into.”
A writer for stage and screen
Wally Jiagoo in conversation with Jonny Wright
Talking about the material that comes from lived experience.
Biography
Born and raised in London, Wally is a writer of Mauritian heritage. An alumni of Soho Theatre’s Writers’ Group, he’s previously had work performed at Soho Theatre, Theatre Royal Stratford East, Trafalgar Studios, and The Albany Theatre. He’s also an alumni of the prestigious Channel 4 Screenwriting Course, and BBC Writers Workshop.Wally’s pilot script Rasheed/Rasheeda won the BAFTA Rocliffe New Writing Prize for TV Drama in 2016.
For TV, Wally has written episodes for Malory Towers, The Dumping Ground, and Phoenix Rise. His essay ‘Glass Windows & Glass Ceilings’ is included in a collection of ‘essays on the working class, by the working class’ called Know Your Place, published by Dead Ink Books 2017.
