Biography

Script consultant and screenwriter Paul FitzSimons has over ten years’ experience as a script consultant and editor and has advised over 40 screenwriters and playwrights on around 250 scripts, synopses and treatments. Paul is also a writer. His feature film ‘The Gift’ (OC Productions) premiered in October 2015. He also worked as a story writer on the RTE Drama ‘Fair City’. So he knows what it’s like to be on the ‘other side’ of the editing desk.

Training:

• Script – For Script Editors and Development Executives, Screen Training Ireland, April 2016
• Script Editing for Television Drama, Screen Training Ireland, February 2015
• Completed film-pitching course, Dublin, October 2010
• Completed screenwriting course, Filmbase Ireland, April 2010