About Naida...

 

Naida is pronounced 'N-eye-da' (rhymes with 'spider').

 

Naida's own work frequently explores the lives of minoritised women; her published works include the children's middle grade biography The Extraordinary Life of Mary Seacole (Puffin Books, 2019), and a YA biography on Shonda Rhimes (Enslow Publishing, 2017). Her doctorate explored the relationship between cinematic representations and screenwriting practice, looking at developing methodologies to interrogate the way that screenwriting informs representation.

 

Naida has experience in children’s and drama TV development, with commissioned work including Horrible Histories (Lion TV, 2022) and drama series development for Lonesome Pine/ Channel 4 (2019). She’s had two original drama pilots optioned; Wild Island, winner of the TriForce Writerslam competition (2018), and Home, finalist in the C21 International Drama Series Script competition (2015). 

 

More generally, Naida is interested in both fiction and non-fiction which explores topics and themes around identity, family dynamics and lesser-known and under-explored hi(stories) and characterisations.

 

Academic practice & research

 

Dr Naida Redgrave is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing and Screenwriting. Her research and writing explores the prospect of decolonised approaches to screen/writing practice and how these methodologies can be accurately articulated.

Her current work explores the suitability of the term ‘conscious collaboration’ (Hingorani & Redgrave, 2023) to describe the theorising of a conscious undoing of colonial gaze when writing and creating narratives of ‘othered’ or underrepresented identities.