Screenwriting Showcase
Nick
Taylor Buck
Feel-good stories about the end of the world.
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Based in Sheffield, UK, I'm a screenwriter with a background in climate change and sustainable cities.
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My work explores family - whether chosen or biological - identity, and justice through fresh, character-driven stories. I’m drawn to urgent themes - climate change, activism, mental health - but always in ways that are funny, empathetic, and accessible. My work often sits where drama and comedy collide, reflecting and challenging contemporary British life.
I’m fascinated by perception and its limits: what happens when our senses, memories, or biases fail us? That question often drives my stories.
Blacklist
PARADISE LOAF: “has a wonderful mix of drama and humor. It's the rare script in which it lands all of its emotional beats... The script is not only highly creative, but it manages to also be fairly unique, which is going to help it stand out from the crowd. This would be an easy film to market”
Academy Nicholl Fellowship
CONCERTO: “The voice is quite delightful... The ending feels triumphant... it destroyed me! The description of [Helen's] playing is rhapsodic and magical”
Channel 4
PROJECT SUNSHINE: “Nick has the rare ability of making his expertise accessible and he has done that [here] brilliantly... We love the uplifting, non-preachy tone and relatable characters.”
My Work
I write for TV and Features - a selection of my projects are below.
Features
Paradise Loaf
Drama/Comedy – screenplay: A gifted but emotionally distracted scientist must reconcile with his errant daughter to save his radical food project - with a little unwanted help from an ancient Celtic deity.
Concerto
Drama/Comedy - screenplay: As dementia strips a timid piano teacher of her inhibitions, her raw new talent dazzles - but her family must decide whether to share her gift or protect her from humiliation.
Stub
Drama/Grounded Sci-Fi - screenplay and treatment: A loyal bodyguard fights to protect her employer from a shadowy foe, but her allegiance is tested when the enemy offers answers about her past.
A Strange & Brilliant Light
Drama / Sci-Fi - adapted screenplay of novel that won ‘Best First Novel’ at the 2022 Writers' Guild of Great Britain Awards: After a child is killed by an AI robot, two sisters compete to build empathetic AI - knowing the winner will shape humanity’s future.
Northern Soul
Drama - screenplay: After an accidental killing, a petty criminal tries to reconnect with his estranged son - but risks dragging him into danger instead.
The Tunnel
Drama / Sci-Fi - screenplay: When a physicist opens a portal to another dimension, reality begins to collapse, forcing him into an unthinkable dilemma.
TV
Grub
Drama - pitch doc: In Sheffield’s utopian agri-tech compound, a loyal worker hacks the system to feed her starving family - unearthing a cover-up that forces her to choose between whistleblowing and survival.
Dead Clever
Drama/Comedy - pitch doc and pilot: A jaded, death-phobic political fixer drags his friends to rural rewilding bliss - but when funds flatline, their green dream turns pitch black and they’re forced to moonlight as DIY undertakers.
Project Sunshine
Drama/Comedy - pitch doc and pilot: When a ruthless developer threatens their homes, a ragtag band of neighbours must unite to resist - only to discover darker truths within their own community.
Sugar & Spice
(co-written with Zoe Bury) Drama/Comedy - pilot and outline: A naive student nurse is thrown into the chaos of an addiction clinic, where survival means improvising - and confronting the secrets of her own family.
Short Straw
High Concept Drama - pilot: When a reckless president implodes, a timid civil servant is thrust into power - and must choose between his values and the machinery of politics.
Shorts
Blind Faith
Short - Drama - screenplay: As her eyesight fades, a single mother is pulled back into her secretive past - where betrayal may be her only salvation.