John Foster teaches screenwriting at the Media School of Bournemouth
University, the London School of Film, Media & Performance and the American
School at Regent’s College, London. He is visiting lecturer at University
Complutense and University Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid. He teaches on British
Council overseas script development programmes and has worked with
students in Ghana and Sri Lanka. He has published fiction in the Guardian
and Spectator, written for radio and the theatre, worked as a script editor
and researcher for the BBC, Central and Granada. His screenwriting credits
include many episodes for TV series such as Z-Cars, Softly Softly, Crown
Court, Emmerdale, Juliet Bravo, Rockliffe, Saracen, The Bill. He has also
written childrens’ serials, one-off dramas and dramatised documentaries for
television, including a BAFTA award-winning BBC Omnibus on crime novelist
Raymond Chandler. The movie of his screenplay Letters from a Killer featured
Patrick Swayze. Several of his stage plays have since been
performed and he is currently engaged in theatre.