Sinéad Collopy

Sinéad has worked in writers rooms on internationally broadcast award winning TV shows as well as having had her own TV drama commissioned by a national broadcaster. Her work includes writing an episode for season three of the award-winning thriller SMOTHER (Treasure Entertainment/BBC Studios), scheduled to air in 2023, and currently writing an episode for the second season of award-winning Irish crime drama HIDDEN ASSETTS (Saffron-Moon). Sinead’s original project EVERY FIVE MILES (Vico Films), a gritty hard hitting drama about the plight of a young man being trafficked through car washes in Ireland, aired on RTE as part of the Storyland Sessions in November 2022 to much critical acclaim. 

In April 2020, Sinéad’s film SALVATION CALLING was one of ten short films selected for production by the BBC Writer’s Room. Staring Ian McElhinney, SALVATION CALLING was nominated for a UK Broadcast Digital Award in 2021. Sinead’s short film PADDY premiered at the Oscar qualifying Galway Film Fleadh in 2020 and went on to win Best Short Drama at the Catalyst International Film Festival in 2021 and her short film LONG WAY HOME (Gingerbread Films) is currently in post-production and scheduled to hit the international film festival circuit in 2023.

In 2021, Sinead was one of eight writers short-listed for development by Stellify Media/Northern Ireland Screen/Sony Pictures as part of the All-Ireland Screen Writing Prize for her crime drama BORDERLANDS. 

Sinead’s debut feature ’77 was one of twelve projects developed through the Screen Ireland Spotlight Scheme in 2020, a scheme designed to promote emerging writing talent. In 2019 she was one of three screenwriters selected for the Galway Film Centre/Broadcasting Authority of Ireland /WRAP Fund Mentorship Scheme for her TV pilot STRAIGHT & NARROW.

Sinéad has spent the last 20 years working for the state Child Protection & Welfare Agency across Ireland, work which has strongly influenced her writing.