Janice Hally

Janice Hally (born 18 March 1959) is a Scottish playwright and television screenwriter who has written more than 300 broadcast hours of prime-time British television drama serials and individual screenplays. She was co-creator and main screenwriter on the first-ever, long-running Gaelic drama serial Machair.

Biographical details

Hally was born in Glasgow and educated at Hillhead High School and Glasgow University where she studied Drama and English Literature. In 1980, the year that she graduated, she won the World Student Drama Trust ISPC award, judged by Alan Ayckbourn for her play Ready or Not.Ready or Not was subsequently performed professionally at the Tron Theatre in Glasgow.

The play was then adapted for television and led to her nomination, at the age of 23 in the category of 'Best New Writer to Television' at the 1982 PYE television awards.

From then on she wrote single plays, children's drama and serial drama for television, garnering more than 650 credits as creator, screenwriter, script editor, storyliner.