Ed Whitmore


Ed Whitmore is a British screenwriter. He has written for a number of successful British TV series such as Waking the Dead and Silent Witness. Whitmore is an alumnus of Westfield College.

Career

In 2003 he wrote the Waking The Dead episode "Multistory", directed by Robert Bierman, which won the show an Emmy for Best International Drama Series. He adapted the book Hallam Foe into a successful film, for which he was subsequently nominated at the Moët et Chandon British Independent Film Awards for Best Screenplay, , as well as the BAFTA-winning Sea of Souls, for which he won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Episode in a TV Series. He created and wrote ITV drama Identity, which was aired on British TV in the summer of 2010; the remake rights were then sold to the ABC Network in America.
He later wrote episodes of
and Strike Back, as well as the miniseries Arthur & George and Rillington Place''.