Danny Brocklehurst was born on June 1971 and is an English screenwriter, playwright, and former journalist.
16 Facts About Danny Brocklehurst
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Danny Brocklehurst has won both BAFTA and Royal Television Society writing awards.
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Danny Brocklehurst was featured in the writers' section of Broadcast magazine's Hot 100 in 2007.
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In 2024, Brocklehurst was included in the Radio Times 100 list of the most powerful people in British television.
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Danny Brocklehurst grew up in a working-class home and had several jobs before entering the media.
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Danny Brocklehurst wrote several episodes of the BAFTA award-winning series Clocking Off, as well as the two-part BBC film The Stretford Wives.
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Danny Brocklehurst's series Sorted, a BBC postal drama starring Hugo Speer, aired in 2006.
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In 2007, Danny Brocklehurst wrote a film about the Fathers4Justice campaign for producers Harbour Pictures.
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Danny Brocklehurst has written episodes of both Jimmy McGovern's The Street and crime drama Accused for BBC One.
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In 2011 it was announced that Danny Brocklehurst would write a new HBO drama, Dirty, with Andrea Arnold attached to direct.
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Danny Brocklehurst was named in the Radio Times Top 100 in 2024, of most influential people in television.
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Danny Brocklehurst has written three award-winning plays, My Eight Times Table, Nobody and Loaded, as well being story adviser and book co-writer of the West End musical Never Forget.
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Danny Brocklehurst's play Casual Ties was a Royal Exchange hit in 2014.
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Danny Brocklehurst wrote a play about Margaret Thatcher's mutually assured destruction policy in the 1980s, The End of The World, a thriller about a man who seems to have ceased to exist, Nobody, an Australian set examination of greed, Loaded and a single drama about an eighty-year-old woman who admits to a series of brutal murders, Mary Shane.
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Danny Brocklehurst has appeared as a regular commentator on Radio 4 and 5Live.
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Danny Brocklehurst wrote the podcast Ecstasy: The Battle Of Rave that features David Morrissey, Monica Dolan, Ian Hart, Meera Syal and Ade Edmondson.