Kira-Anne Pelican

Kira-Anne Pelican, PhD is a London-based writer, educator and script editor, who specialises in helping writers develop more compelling TV shows and films through insights from psychology. She is the author of The Science of Writing Characters (Bloomsbury, 2020) and has taught character development workshops to screenwriters across the world, including at BBC Writers, the BFI, Cambridge University and Story Academy (Sweden). After graduating from the London Film School, Kira-Anne began her career working as an assistant to director Stanley Kubrick on EYES WIDE SHUT, before retraining in screenwriting at UCLA. She is passionate about helping writers solve character development problems with easy to use insights and approaches from psychology and is the founder of charactermasterclass.com.