Julie Rutterford won a BAFTA for her short film ‘About a Girl’ in 2001 and has numerous TV writing credits. These include ‘Hustle’, ‘Life on Mars’, ‘Ashes to Ashes’, ‘Teachers’ and Jimmy McGovern’s ‘The Lakes’.

Julie’s play for BBC Radio 4, ‘In Conversation With Madonna’, received a nomination for The Writer’s Guild Best Radio Play.

In 1993-94, Julie was the writer-in-residence at the Library Theatre in Manchester. Her theatre play ‘Stripped’ (performed at Edinburgh, the Old Red Lion in Islington and the Library Theatre, Manchester) won the Northwest Playwrights Award.