Ged Backland is a creative director for Hallmark plc in the UK. Previous
commissioned work includes a play, Jesus In Reeboks, produced by Vicky Featherstone for Paines Plough. He was also one of the writers selected for the Channel 4 sit-com festival where his pilot Lipstick Terrorists was
produced and staged at the Riverside Studios. Ged has not long completed a three year stint of ‘first look deals’ with with Chrysalis and Carlton Television, writing pilots for the comedy script development unit. His first
love is the written word and he has lots of shorts (all humour) and two novels, The Queen Of Mashed Potato and Bacon Legs, with about 25k words on each on the go. If you enjoyed PSOBE and would like to see some more e-mail him at gbackl2@hallmark-uk.com
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