Name Lissa Evans Role Television Director | ||
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Awards British Academy Television Award for Comedy and Comedy Entertainment Programme Books Small Change for Stuart, Their Finest Hour and a Half, Big Change for Stuart, Spencer's List Similar Arthur Mathews, Graham Linehan, Declan Lowney, Sharat Sardana, Guy Jenkin | ||
Author Lissa Evans Premiere Interview - Their Finest
Felicity Kenvyn (known as Lissa Evans) is a British television director, producer, novelist and children's author.
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- Author Lissa Evans Premiere Interview Their Finest
- Smudger the who saved Christmas
- Biography
- References
Smudger the who saved Christmas
Biography
After qualifying as a doctor in 1983, Evans worked in medicine in Newcastle for four years before a brief period in stand-up, beginning with an ensemble review called "Wire Less Wireless" which played in some of the pubs in Newcastle. Evans joined BBC Radio where she was a producer of comedy programmes before migrating to television. She has produced and/or directed such shows as Father Ted (for which she won a BAFTA for best comedy), Room 101, The Kumars at No. 42, TV Heaven, Telly Hell, Crossing the Floor (for which she won an Emmy for best drama) and Have I Got News For You.
Evans has written four novels for adults: Spencer's List, Odd One Out, Their Finest Hour and a Half (now filmed as Their Finest) and Crooked Heart, the last two both long-listed for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction. For children, she has written Small Change For Stuart,shortlisted for the 2011 Costa Award for Children's fiction, the 2012 Carnegie Medal, and the 2012 Branford Boase Award. Small Change for Stuart was published in the United States as Horten's Miraculous Mechanisms, and the sequel, Big Change for Stuart (Horten's Incredible Illusions in the U.S.) was published in 2012. Another book for children, Wed Wabbit, was published in 2017.